how do you pronounce these baby names?

[lunavix]

kian/cian and niamh?

to the best of my knowledge it's kee-an
and neem?

Is this right?

I think it's pronounced "gronya" but I'd defer to someone Irish...

Personally I don't think anyone should be thinking about naming their baby anything they can't pronounce and/or spell themselves!

Oops, never noticed the other three pages on this thread

I wonder what lunavix decided on in the end for her dc??

Hi my gran was Niamh and is pronounced "Nee-ve" but american relatives of mine have named their baby Niamh after my gran but they pronounce it
"Ni-ema" which i thought was nice and different.

whats wrong?

why? Niema is a popular american name. no more wrong than any other name, i'm sure half the names around sounded wrong to start with.

well each to their own...half the names around are spelt and pronounced diff ...when niamh is on paper it sure does not sound like neeve and my gran lived with it for 83yrs without people thinking her parents were "daft" and well on the american front theres niema ash the travel writer and americas next top model winner niema who is pretty popular and probably launched a new generation of niemas ..but like i said each to their own!

I know a Kian and he says it like Ian but with a K sound in front.

doh and considering i live in the highlands i know that but not everyone knows the origin of names a lot of people around here dont even know that! still gaelic or not spelling and pronunciation is diff and that was what you were trying to say about niamh and niema !! tometos /tomatoes!!

cece... i have heard of that also..

?????????bras??????

?????????bras??????

lol...i was wondering when i saw bras

i do understand the whole spelling thing my mothers irish and my fathers scottish as am i ....but what im saying when it comes down to it half the names i know are not spelt how they are pronounced and all names start somewhere and are made up somewhere along the line so why not niema...even my children with easy names are spelt diff by people my dd is a Hollie and everyone including my mil spells it holly! my nephew is johan and some people call him Jo-han when his name is pronounced yohan!

my daughter's name is Kasia (polish name -pronounced Kasha) When we told sil what we were planning on calling her, sil said "why don't you spell it Kasha" - to which we replied "because her name's Kasia??" She has known how to spell her name since she was 3- so when folk mispronounce it she shouts "no is KASIA - K-A-S-I-A"

Niamh is pronounced more or less like "Neev" - it's a lovely name.

Aoife is another lovely Irish name - pronounced "Eefa"

Trouble is, you always have to spell it out for people...

flumpybumpy saorise is a dance from lord of the dance feet of flames - have you seen it? its fab love the name

a lot of people said the name grainne was pronounced GRON-YA or similar but i'm from ireland and anyone i know pronounces this name as Graw-nya, maybe its just the accent! just deciced to post this incase people taught it was GROAN-YA which sounds really bad

Hiya my son is called Kian and you pronounce in Keean