Boy's name that can't be ruined by local accent...

[Indianajonesismyhero]

I live in Suffolk. Many names I like will be pronounced lazily and annoy me, thus:

Seth - Seff
Theo - Feo
Peter - pee-uh

I'm including my own husband, children and assorted friends and inlaws in this before anyone shouts at me - I'm not a snob, and although I do correct my kids asking for war-uh instead of water, it doesn't bother me too much- I just want to not get annoyed every time my baby's dad, granny or brother or sister gets his name wrong. Any ideas?

James. Everyone loves James :-)

Tom
Sam
Ben
Joe

You can't go too wrong with short names.

I do really like all those, thank you. Trouble is, so does everyone else and all have either been used by family/close friends or - worse - kids in my classes (secondary teacher) so are not close to the top of my list... due to proximity or unwelcome taint from bonkers kid at school.

My elder kids have real, ie not made up, names that aren't so frequently used for that very reason - although both their names crop up fairly often on here as suggestions...

Max
Oliver
John?

I'm not familiar with the accent, so these may be unsuitable, but based on your examples above, it seems like these should work:

Aiden
Olly
Jonah
Eli
Ira
Adam
Ciaran
Mark/Marcus
Rory
Reece
Greg
Joshua/Josh
Daniel

Anything?

Noah
Sean
Ellis
Keir

so you want to avoid a "th" and "ter" sounds, any others to miss out? How about:

Luke
Edward
Leon
Oscar
Fredrick/Fred/freddie
Richard
Jack
Daniel
Ben/Benjamin
James
Finley
Mark
Hugo
Jago
Hugh
Michael

Jack
Arlo
Jude

Bob

Thank you - a few to form the basis of a list!

Rex

I'm in Suffolk too!

Avoid-

Matthew - Maff-u
Michael- Moike-el

Names that are fine:

Henry
Harry
Edward
James
William

Leo
Duncan
Finn
Rowan
Adam
Paul
Ian
Ryan
Owen
Brendan/Brandon
Mason
Aidan
John
Cameron

Ooh yes, I agree with PP, you can't go wrong with James. :)

Amos

Ha ha, I have the same trouble where I live! I'm in NZ so all the vowel sounds change, 'e' is pronounced 'i' for example which makes a lot of names sound completely different (Ben for example becomes Bin!). I'm expecting my 4th and have to get my eldest to pronounce each name we think of to see what it will sound like . I agree with the name James, it is pronounced "normally" here too :)

John, Andrew, Robert, Edgar

Don't have Arthur! 'Arf-fa'

Magnus
Stanley
Jonah
Timon
Joel

how about Michael?

Conrad
Francis
Toby

Not Daniel then - AKA 'Dan-yULLL!

Or worse still Dan-yuw.