Emris

[bess23]

Emris what do you think
?

Different, nice, they will spend a lot of time spelling it over the phone to call centres though..

Prefer Merlin!

Isn't it Emrys?

For a girl or a boy?

I've never heard it befre but it has an attractive sound

Yes emrys

Are you Welsh?

like it.

Yes Emrys, for a boy.

Emrys is nice - it does say ruddy faced farmer/outdoors type to me though.

I quite like Emrys - never met a real life one, but the name sounds masculine, is easy to spell/pronounce, isnt' overused, so a great choice imo.

Haven't heard of it, but it sounds nice.

I wanted Emrys for ds but dh didn't like it enough.

It's a good, solid name. As is Merlin.

Have you been watching Merlin, OP?

Emrys is lovely; never seen it with an 'i' though.

Please spell it Emrys if you're going to use it.

Yes it's lovely [hsmile]

yes, love Emrys

I think someone has been watching too much Merlin

and would walk away laughing

(Merlin is awesome.) Emrys is a lovely name.

It says "ruddy faced middle aged farmer" to me as well

I have a teenaged Emrys and he is a computer geek rather than a ruddy faced farmer. It does make watching Merlin more fun as he has never met anyone with the same name and gets freaked by hearing it on the tv! We chose it because it is a Welsh name that English people can say quite easily. It is the Welsh for Ambrose apparently

ooh, I like it - I've been lurking looking for inspiration myself

do you think it would be odd to use it if there was no Welsh connection in the family whatsoever

I think I prefer it to Ambrose

Everyone will think it's after the TV show.
But you could do worse, there's a 9-10yo Annakin living locally.
And i know a 15yo called Ripley after the Alien heroine.