Thoughts on Bleddyn?

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Dh and I love Bleddyn for our son but we live in England and are worried that he'll spend his life explaining how it's pronounced/ spelt. Is it an OK name for a boy living in England?

Welsh speaker here , surrounded by non Welsh speakers, I would avoid Llewelyn as he will just get called Cl-uh-well-in

Titty , Anxious was being sarcastic in response to me.

I was

It's growing on me! Very memorable. I reckon go for it!

I really like the name. I'm in Wales.

Im welsh. I like it. My fave welsh name is Idrys. Obviously everyone thinks of elba. But I just love it

I'm English but currently live in Wales. There's a little lad in nursery called bleddyn - I saw the name before i heard it being pronounced and I was totally at a loss as to how to say it. Now that I know how it's said, I like how the name sounds but I find the spelling of it very ugly.

Other welsh names in the school at the moment include:

Wil
Owain
Iolo

Also, just to add, I think Bleddyn sounds much nicer in a Welsh accent than an English one!

Do it! It's lovely.

No one would blink at a French person giving their child a French name if they lived in England.

Go with your hearts.

I have a family member with the name, I really like it. We call him Bledd (bleth). He's born and bred in Wales though.

I love it! Have just put it on my list
Also on my list are:

Idris
morus
Caio
Penry

Penry? It took several attempts to type that without autocorrect kicking in. That's what you'd be letting (him?) in for.

It's not a name I've ever seen before, and seeing it written down I assumed it was for a girl (like Bronwyn) and that you would pronounce it Bledd-inn. Poor wee lad will have a lifetime of explaining his name, unless you live in Wales.

Bleddy awful

I wouldn't know how to pronounce it, but would be fine after being told once.

If you love it, go for it. Children, teachers etc are quite used to living in a multicultural society. Kids in schools round my way need to learn to prounnouce all sorts of names which aren't written phonetically, for example Polish names are quite common. If a child moved here from another country, we wouldn't tell them "you can't have that name, we don't know how to pronounce it!", we'd tell people they'd have to learn how to pronounce it. I don't see why he can't have a Welsh name if he has Welsh heritage, just because he happens to be born and raised in England.

Go for it OP

Terrible connotations of bloody...

Since when has Bleddyn sounded anything like bloody? What the actual?

Wouldn't it be shortened to Bled?

Bledd. Which in Welsh doesn't sound like Bled.

And please not something that will get pronounced Mervin (Merve the perve) or Marvin. Not good this side of the border.

Iestin? I love Rhodri too. And Aneurin, great man,

Love it. The dd is pronounced like the 'th' in the or this or heather (not th in thank or thing). It means wolf-like I think. Bledd as a short form is great.
Blethin would automatically be pronounced with a hard th so no good.

Llewellyn is the anglicised version of Llywelyn. It is shortened to Llew (lion)

Bronwyn is an anglicised version of Bronwen.

The dd in bledd is actually pronounced as a th sound so nothing like bloody.

For those saying, "But the Welsh dd is not pronounced like the English dd", the OP has said they live in England, so it's perfectly reasonable for people to point out the bled/blood/bleeding/bloody connotations.

I'm a welsh speaker in Wales (which an english husband, so I've had this same issue with names he can say!), and I really like Bleddyn.

Can I suggest Macsen? same kind of feel/heritage, and can be nn to Macs which even the English can't butcher!