how do you say Nevaeh?

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It is suggested on some misguided baby name threads, how do you say it?

clearly is pronounced to rhyme with

Whatevahhhh

And must be pronounced like a teenager would pronounce "Never"

Oh I bagsy Yppah for DC2.

I'm going to pronounce it Yappa.

It is the kind of name used by people who use lol as punctuation lol

It is the kind of name used by people who use lol as punctuation lol

I'd have a stab at 'Nev-ee-ay'.

Actually I'd have a stab at the parents.

I've now decided to pronounce Yppah 'ee-pay' like Ebay.

I say neh-vey-a, i actually like it - not that i would use it but i think its pretty although quite tacky!

Yppah Kyaye Muvafukkah

Like Nivea?

Knee-va

So completely wrong then

Yppah Kyaye Muvafukkah

:o:o:o

Oh, good lord. I'm in America and DS goes to school with 2 of those (both of whom, I might add, have been taken away from their parent(s) and had custody awarded to their grandparents, although I'm pretty sure it isn't just because they were given a stripper name) and here it is pronounced nih-vay-uh.

ne vay uh? dunno i saw one of the mums on 16 and pregnant called her daughter that she was never on any of the follow up shows tho. its a bloody awful name and i am quite accepting of odd and unusual names etc!

Teacher I'm glad you changed it to an ee sound. I was beginning to worry. I would go for ee-pah (sounding the pah so as not to sound like a battlefield) but ee-pay could be a dialect thing

The rock star and his wife who "invented" the name, when they bestowed it on their daughter (and thus started the whole Nevaeh trend), pronounce it as neh-vay-uh, so that is the original (and proper?) pronunciation.

I prefer to pronounce it 'what in God's name what these parents thinking'.

Also found in the US:

Semaj - it's James backwards and pronounced seh-maj. Found on both genders but more "popular" for boys. More "feminine" forms are Semaja and Semajah.

Legna - it's angel backwards and is pronounced lay-na (the g is silent).

It all makes so proud to be an American. weeps

Which rockstar spawned this monstrosity ButterPecan? Oh and by monstrosity I mean the name not the child!

Some Christian rock band - his name was Sonny iirc.

at christian rock band

Rock on!

If that's what Christianity does to a person . . . . .

Like Nivea the face cream

Sonny sandoval

It's doing the rounds big in Wales.

I fancy susej. I might go for that next.

FGS. That's how I'd pronounce it.

I used to reg births and I tell you we had some cracking names - most often I would try to talk parents out of dodgy spellings of otherwise normal names. But would they listen? Would they bugger. One of my best was a mum who wanted to name her child Seeobarn. I must have looked like this ---> Twas Siobhan but she didn't know how to say it never mind spell it.

Did she register the baby as Seeobarn in the end saggar? Bloody hell.

Ssilb or Anavrin might be nice.