Which Spanish name for a boy?

[FirstTimeMom12]

Aarón
Andrés
Diego
Mateo
Emilio Or Eloy?

Which do you like best of the above?

I was thinking Mateo before I saw your list.

How much do you care about how badly it will get pronounced in English?

I've always wished I was Spanish so I could use Alejandro for a boy. Such a badass name.

Anyway, Mateo is nice. Not keen on the others.

Xavier

Mateo is gorgeous
Also love Tiago rather than Diego, tho could be more portuguese

I like Diego

Andres at a push.

How about:
Pablo
Gabriel
Alejandro
Julio
Raphael

I do care, would not want it to get mispronounced and having to correct it all the time.
DH & I like Andrés a lot and find Emilio or Eloy also nice

Mateo is great- and he can always go by Mat if people struggle with it.

However my personal favourites are:

Alejandro
Ignacio
Gabriel

I love Andres!

How about Alvaro?

Too many Alvaros in our family already...

Emilio is nice. How about Santiago or Benicio?

We live in Spain. IMHO....

Aarón will be pronounced Áaron in English. I prefer the English pron I'm sorry to say.
Eloy is nice, I know an Eloi (we're in Catalunya).
Diego I flat out don't like
Mateo is my favourite on your list.
Emilio very close second favourite. You don't hear many young ones these days. I mean that in a nice way.

We went for the international alphabet word for O so myUK family and friends can all spell and pronounce it. It isn't as popular here as it is in the UK - top twelve name, iirc.

Hoe that helps.

I have a Nicolás. I think any Spanish name will be pronounced "wrong", just depends how badly you mind it being mangled. For instance Brits would say NICholas, whereas obviously he's NicoLAS.
Alejandro would be hard for non Spanish speakers to get right unless they were told.
We choose Nicolás as I wanted something my family had a shot at pronouncing and it has Nico as a nn (which is what we use actually), other possibility was Alejandro as it was the only other we agreed o and it could be Ale, which is easy enough.

elQuintoConyo love your MN name

Mateo is lovely. I'm a big fan of good old Miguel too.

I used to know a gorgeous Spanish guy called Jesus...

Thank you Sofiamum

I'm biased about Alberto Coconutty as I'm married to one!

Nicolás is lovely. We also toyed with Simón and Tomás but they suck in English, quite frankly, which is a shame because I love them both.

I know a fresh newborn Iago (not a Santiago, just a Iago) with an older brother León.
Dávid
Sergi
Alfredo
Xavier
Victor (several of them)
Adolfo (poor Bil got the fuzzy end of the lollipop when they were handing out the names!)
Ramon
José
Luís

And plenty of Catalan names, although I get that they aren't everyone's cup of tea

Can I repeat the best name I've ever heard, on a man I have met:

Kevin Costner de Jesus

Poor guy is about 25.

I was going to say if you don't want it mispronounced don't go for Andrés :)

Diego would probably be the least mangled. But they all will be (and it is a pain, I say this from someone who has one!). Eloy will be particularly bad, is my guess.

I liked Tomas but DH didn't'. I liked James if we had been in the uk and Dh loved it but it felt to cruel here in Spain. He'd have been Hammer the way they pronounce it here .

Javier
Nicolas
Mateo

were all on my list

• my friend has just called her Spanish DS Sebastian

Emilio is my grown up cousin, it's a great name

I like Hugo. Great in English but so cool when said in Spanish. My DD's 'novio' is Hugo (she is 5)!