caoimhe

[birchygoo]

help from Irish ppl on how its said in your area but also keen to hear from English how difficult you would find this to say

I am from ulster currently living in England. in ulster we would say keeva. talking from friend from Dublin she mentioned they would always say qweva.

just wondering in different areas would they all be qweva? and if I did call a girl this would she have lots of issues with it in England? I do know one little caoimhe here in England already both English parents and said as keeva.

I know you are just going to say spell it keeva - but nope I'm awkward and keeva I don't like sp.

boys names I'm finding much easier as enda is one and it can be read as seen

please don't slate my names I'm not interested in if you don't like them. if we all liked same names it would be hard to tell us apart! also we will be returning home.

Never heard or seen it before so haven't a clue! They'll be a lot of mispronunciations in England-just don't get cross with people!

Aoife and also Saoirse. English people have largely stopped attempting to semi-yodel these names.

Genuinely interested-how are these two pronounced?

DH really wanted this name when I was pregnant. He's of Irish heritage.

However, having an unusually spelt name myself, and the blank looks from people when we mentioned it as one of our options we started to go off it. It isn't popular where I am at all and the poor child would have been subjected to kay-oh-mee?? For most of their life.

All that aside we both loved it, but I had a DS!!

Roll. Same vowel sounds as Caoimhe. Aoife is roughly 'EE-fuh' and Saoirse ''SEER-shuh'. 'Aoi' is 'ee' to rhyme with tea, glee etc.

Thank you, butter roll. Beautiful names :)

I'm English and pronounce it keeva. It's lovely as are most Irish names

I have a commonish sounding name but an extremely unique spelling in fact so unique I'm the only one in the world.

Um, doesn't this mean your parents spelled your name wrong and you#re mad no-one else can guess how they did it?

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I'm English and would automatically pronounce Caiomhe as Keeva"

Not if you hadn't been told how to pronounce it, you wouldn't!

Should it be of interest, I had an Irish colleague in Australia who pronounced it Qweeva.

Could be pronounced Kweeva or keeva depending on the dialect.

Also - You should ask how the girl herself pronounces it, then you'll know which way it is .