Huw??

[Bovnydazzler]

I'm currently pregnant with DS #2.

The shortlist is

Huw
Ewan
Thomas (we'd call him Tommy/Tom)

We have a long, hard to pronounce surname so want something fairly short.

My DH loves Huw and that's his face by far I think it's nice (think Huwy really cute for smaller children) but a bit worried Huw looks like a made up name.

My husband is Welsh hence the spelling. We've argued over the spelling of Ewan, he prefers Iwan (the Welsh version) but I think with our surname I don't want our son to have a first name and a surname no one can pronounce.

Hit me with it!! What do you think of Huw (and the #2 and #3 names)? Any other names that could be thrown into this mix?

Huw is nice, very recognisably a name, and I'd pronounce it the same as Hugh. Is that correct?
I don't see why if the surname is complex, the first name necessarily has to be very simple. It's not like there is a set amount of trouble people are prepared to go to, to say a name.
There are so so so many names that have spelling variants. Even simple names. In my immediate family we have Tom (Thom), Brian (Bryan), Catherine (Katherine), Helen (Helene) and Jean (Jeanne). The only names without alternatives are the Irish names actually (Niamh and Ciara).

I wouldn't worry too much about 'Iwan' being pronounced 'Eye-wan'. This was something my parents worried about though, and called DB 'Euan' - he still gets called 'Evan' some people are just terrible with names, don't change your naming preferences for them.

That said, 'Ewan' is absolutely lovely.

I like Huw and Thomas. Not so keen on Ewan.

Huw is the name we have chosen for our soon to be DS :) It's a classic timeless name and I struggle to see how it could be mispronounced! I also think that due to the newsreader it is well known now. Go for it!

I think Huw is a great name but I always have a problem with names which have to be spelled out ie H-U-W rather than H-U-G-H. This is why I can't handle names like Rebekah ( you know who you are ).
Currently I favour Rex ( wrecks? ) but my opinion on names changes with the wind.

Oh just to say also that I have to spell both my first name and surname and it does not bother me at all. My first name is 8 letters long and my surname is double barelled so a 3 letter name seems a doddle to me :)

I love Huw but we are not Welsh so we have a Euan.
His middle name is Thomas and my rather dippy MIL told everyone we had named him after the Welsh runner (currently on strictly)