KSAWERY or SEWERYN or NIKODEM?

[Leatherr]

For baby boy soon due thanks for comments any

My son has a grzergorz in his class, it is difficult to say and difficult to spell

....but it's easy for his family to say and spell.

My DH has non English speaking relatives who call my DCs their languages closest version of their names. It causes no confusion at all.

People just need to get smarter and less lazy and they'll cope with "forrin" names. What a dull world if we were all Kevins. Variety is the spice of life. More Kwames, Seweryns and Cliodhnas please. Flood the English speaking world with them. They need the practise in spelling and pronunciation.

Nobody will learn how to say these names if people stop using them because no-one knows how to say them. Use them, get them into common usage, then people will know how to say them

Ksawery is my favourite from your list.

Agree that Nikodem would be easiest to pronounce when seen on paper in the UK.
But don't think it's a big deal, once people have been told how to pronounce etc they will know for next time!

My tongue trips over names, I find Amelia a huge headache, actually.
This is why my kids have boring names like "Mark" and "Ann".

But what about ds? It's not great being lumbered with a name that people can't pronounce or spell. It's annoying.

Niko is lovely sounds sophisticated and yet easy to spell and pronounce.

Not sure about the sewery one. And the other is too constonanty for me.

Francis

It's not "exceptionally stupid" not to know how to pronounce a name from a language you don't know that you have never seen or heard before.

I studied languages at Cambridge and I wouldn't know how to pronounce Ksawery without Googling it or asking someone.

The premier league is full of unEnglish names that fans manage to learn and shout every week.

I like niko. I also like Konrad! Or Jo.

I like Seweryn best but Nikodem is nice too (I like the nickname Niko).

Maybe people are stupid not to be able to pronounce names. Whether they are or not isn't the point. It's annoying having a name people can't pronounce.

I like Seweryn if it's pronounced Severin? The 'sewer' spelling puts me off but I know that's v ignorant of me and would never comment on it IRL. Others might though.

Nikodem sounds pretty awesome too.

The English need to wake up and accept the fact it ain't all about them. The world does not exist to make words easy for English people to say with little brain effort involved.

Please can we pin this to the top of the Baby Names board? PLEASE.

It's not "exceptionally stupid" not to know how to pronounce a name from a language you don't know that you have never seen or heard before.

No, but it is exceptionally stupid to not ask or not try or continue mispronouncing. It doesn't take that long to ask or google.

My son has a grzergorz in his class, it is difficult to say and difficult to spell

I know a Grzergorz. It's easy to pronouce and as difficult to spell as any non-phonetic English word like 'cough' or 'what'. It takes a tiny amount of effort. It's a lot easier than remembering whether your acquaintance is Claire or Claire / Steven or Stephen.

We are English and DC1 is called a name that is not very common but shared with quite a few famous people - it's also a common noun and four letters long. Still people mispronounce it or misspell it occasionally. It takes one second to correct them and then they've got it.

Agree with the PP - we live in a time where famous people are called Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Lupita Nyong'o and Khloe Khardashian - I think people can cope with a non-Anglo Saxon name.

It just depends whether you want a name that most people know how to pronounce/spell straight away without having to ask or check.

There is nothing wrong with choosing a "difficult" name but the person with the name might find it a bit annoying having to correct people and spell it out all the time, if that bothers you then it's worth choosing an "easier" name, but if if doesn't bother you then fine.

I stand by my original comment which is that I think Nikodem would work best in the UK. I wouldn't be rude about the other names if the OP picked them. But I'm not "racist" just because I personally prefer Nikodem.