Thoughts on the name Fia/Thea

[Lauren1x]

What do you ladies think to the name Fia (pronounce the same as Thea)? TIA x

OP, are you saying you pronounce Thea and Fia the same? Do you pronounce think as fink?

Fia/Fiadh is a perfectly normal Irish name.

I've never heard of Fia in my life but above posters say it's Irish so there we go!
If you're English I would say go with Thea.

I wouldn't call a child Fear, no.

Fear is what you'd be saying, Fear is what people will hear.

Not a nice name (unless you happen to be Irish apparently).

All depends on where you live. For some posters Fia is pronounced the same as fear. I'm Scottish and pronounce the r at the end of fear, so they don't sound the same to me. If I lived somewhere where the name was pronounced identically to fear I wouldn't use it. My DD is called Thea and I would not have used that either if we lived somewhere where it was common to pronounce th as f. I would ask a few different people with different accents to say the names, all the better if they're you're family or friends as they'll be the ones saying it! (We decided against calling DD orla because neither of my parents pronounce the r and we didn't like 'aww-lah' as much.)

Irish people pronounce their rs, so Fia and 'fear' sound entirely different.

Fia and Thea sound entirely different

Thea is a name, Fia is not.

Fia is a name, an Irish name.

Of course they sound different if pronounced properly, but a lot of people don't speak properly.

As others have already said, Fia most certainly is a name. It's Irish, and it's also spelled Fiadh. The problem is in most English accents it's pronounced the same as Fear. It's beautiful in an Irish accent.

It's much nicer than Thea, which I find a bit insubstantial and lispy.

I'm not getting how OP thinks Fia & Thea are pronounced the same

DS2 would have been Dorothea if a girl. Named after the not really aunty Aunty Dot. We, maybe, would have called her Thea (not Dot).

His name is now the opposite of Dorothea but male and an old family name.

Put your tongue between your teeth to say the 'th' bit.

Then, just last night, I heard his French/Italian girlfriend pronounce his full name in such an amazing way. Four syllables in one beautiful expression.

If that had been me pronouncing my own son's name it would have sounded clumsy, incongruous and a bit northern.

I don't know where I'm going with this but to say Aunty Dot was wonderful.

Try googling Fia and see what it throws up (lots of government investigation agencies for a start) then think about whether it's a name you would want to have yourself

Went to college with a girl called Fiamma (flame in Italian). She was a Fiamma in all the right ways. A confident leader, an interesting companion and a faithful friend.

reallyanotherone I once had a very confusing conversation at work with someone who was telling me her daughter couldn't come to the phone because she was deaf and I was saying how sorry I was and asking for a death certificate and she had no idea what a deaf certificate was, it was only when I said about coroners that we realised the mistake! Fortunately she saw the funny side and was not offended.

F and Th are absolutely not the same!

I knew a Thea who pronounced it Tay-aah not to rhyme with fear.

Theadora? Thea for short? That's lovely. Fia short for Sofia is also nice.

Oh god phonics are hard! Fia, Fear and Thea are all completely different in my Irish accent!

I don't know what to suggest. Do people from London-way really pronounce Thea and Fear the same?

It seems it is going to depend where you live.

for me, if I heard it, I would presume someone with lazy speech were pronouncing 'Thea', but I've learned tonight it is an Irish name which is confusing in spelling terms for many English folk. However, from your title and OP I guess you weren't thinking of the Irish name? In which case, stick to Thea.
Unless you want to call he Sofia and it just gets shortened to 'fia' when you want but she has a proper name for when she needs one.

I'm sure posters are saying they pronounce TH as F so Thea becomes fia..Like Think becomes Fink..

backforgood Fia is a "proper" name

Come on - the OP obviously meant that Fia would rhyme with Thea not that they would be pronounced identically

Love Fia/Fiadh.

Thea is OK, not hugely exciting but nice enough.

I know of a Swedish Fia. I like the name but would prob have it as a nn.

Thanks for your replies...clearly my English language isn't very good! I'm not pronouncing Fea as fear as I pronounce the R on the fear. Thanks again I'll remove from my short list👍🏻

Do people from London-way really pronounce Thea and Fear the same?

I don't. To me, Thea is like three with no R and a short a on the end. Fear rhymes with ear.

I would, however, pronounce Fia to rhyme with Thea. I think my English brain is unable to work out how it is pronounced as I'm sure my version of "fear" is not right