How is the name Guto perceived outside of Wales?

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Dc3 is due any time now and I know that he is going to be a boy. I had no problems naming dd1 and dd2 but dh and I are completely stuck on boys names. Both of us like the name Guto (pronounced Geit-oh) and most local welshies are positive about it. However, a couple of relatives/friends who over the border really don't like it. I've known a couple of Guto's over the years and they have been rather cool, very gorgeous sporty blokes which has probably increased my preference of the name!

Anyway, would you say yey or nay?

I call it the cwtch dan star (but I am South West and speak Wenglish rather than Welsh unfortunately)

I'd call in twll dan grisha...

Cwtch all the way here! But we have a very weird pocket of language here, 10 miles down the road and it's different!

Cwtch here too!

I think sbensh is just in my home town, and some parts of Cornwall? ( DM read it in a novel)

love the name guto, i also live in welsh language bubble - on the lleyn. I have an Ifan and a Bryn, their English cousins have fun teasing them about their welshie names!

Oh weary, Lovely names! Especially Bryn. Treeeeen i Afonweeen... :o
Llyn is lovely, I was there a few weeks ago- Around Sarn Mellteyrn and then Traeth Llanbedrog. Heaven!

I love the name Guto.

I have a Cwtsh dan star.

Licio'r enw

Diolch i pawb sydd wedi dweud bod chi'n hoffi'r enw! Fi'n dod or dinas a definaley cwtch dan star!

Please excuse the welsh as I'm extreemly rusty. Although spoke welsh as a young child I ended up in english education and haven't spoken welsh well for many many years!

BIL is a Guto. Occasionally called Git Owen (he has a middle name so if you mumble his two names that's what you get!).
We call him Gut (git) for short!
I know a few Gutos, and I really like the name.

But I'm a woman who's gone properly obscure Welsh with my DS2...

BelleEnd - that is actually where i live!

No way weary! What a lovely area. I've got a few friends in the Botwnnog area (none with 6 kids though, so I don't know you :o ) It's so beautiful.

I am desperate to know PrincessofWails DS2's name. My two boys have Welsh names which I thought were pretty easy for English side of the family... Turns out they aren't :o

Wow surprised at the people that are in Wales that have never heard of Guto! Love it by the way. My boys are called Osian and Ifan.
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Like most people outside of Wales, I read it as Goot-oh, which sounds African. As soon as I realised the correct pronunciation, I liked it. The one thing you will have to ask yourselves is can you or your child live with the constant questionning and mispronunciations. In my experience with my son Caleb (pronounced Kay-leb), I found that for every person who asks how the name is pronounced, you will find at least two that don't bother to check and just mispronounce it in the worst possible way and stick with it no matter how many times you correct them!