How would you pronounce Bleu?

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Ok, friend of a friend had a little boy a few days ago and announced name of fb. I ended up seeing the announcement because friend of a friend commented on it.

They've named their baby Bleu. Am I going mad? That's pronounced like Bl-er isn't it? Like Corden Bleu?

All comments are saying how lovely it is and how he is their 'little boy blue.'

I didn't say anything and then our my friend mentioned that her friend had had a little boy and named him Blue. I said "oh like the colour?" and she said "yes, but they've spelt it the french way, think it's Bleu"

I said that Bleu isn't pronounced Blue but Bl-er and she looked at me like this -->

Isn't this baby going to go through life with 'Bl-er' as a name or have I got it really wrong?

definitely Bleurgh!

Horrible name for a kid.

If you want to call him Blue, then call him Blue!

It's pronounced Blue

No, blue is pronounced blue

Bleu is French and is pronounced bler!

Bleurgh. They should have called him Blue.

It's pronounced Blue - but why, or..how? I am not a native English speaker but if I assumed this is a word in English, I would not pronounce it as blue. And if it's supposed to be French, it's certainly not pronounced blue.

Bler.

At least Adolf is easy to pronounce.

I'd say Bleurgh

Just taking foreign names/words and making up a pronounciation is an odd practice. I'm not talking about the different versions of the same name (Michael/Mikael/Miguel etc) but I wouldn't call my son Miguel and then insist it's really pronounced Michael. Or make up my own version, like A-nay out of Anaïs. The DC will spend their entire life correcting people.

jamrock which part of the US, I'm American and have never ever heard of it!

Honestly the stuff people on MN say is "popular in America" is bizarre, don't blame us for this!

Bluh

Surely in no language would that be pronounced 'blue'?! He'll get called 'bleurgh' his whole life, poor lad.

Friends wanted to call their baby Ava, but pronounce it Eva. Luckily sense prevailed.

Poor kid!

I'd pronounce it Bluh. However there is a girl in my child's class called "animal"-bleu which is pronounced "blue"

Called animal?! What?!

Bleurgh.

A friend of a friend had a dd called Anaïs. Friend asked me how you pronounce it before going to meet her. Friend turns up says the name & mum goes 'oh no it's An-ay' .

Sacré bleu!

Poor child.

I've got a family member named Bleu and yeah they pronounce it Blue I would have thought it was pronounced Blurgh until I heard them calling her "Blue"

if i was a teacher reading a new list of names id say "Hello, is Bleurh here?" - because it's the word bleu, which is pronounced Bleurgh. silly people. It's like a French couple calling their child Red but insisting it's pronounced Rouge.

It's pronounced ' bluh'

Bleu isn't even phonetically blue - it just sounds like the French word for blue.

Common sense would dictate it's "Bleugh".

However I knew a Chlöe who insisted on her name being pronounced Cholee, on account of the umlaut swapping letters round obviously

Oh god, and I know an Ava pronounced "Eva". On every school register etc or summer club or swimming lessons she gets called Ava! Why would you pronounce Ava "Eva". If you like the name Eva then spell it Eva?!

The problem with just deciding that a French word should actually have a different pronunciation in English is that most people won't agree with you. And you have to be prepared for that.

Most people in this country know how to pronounce bleu (the French football team are Les Bleus for a start).

If you really want the Blue pronunciation then keep it to Blue. Or even Bloo would be more logical.

There is NO r - letter or sound - in Bleu. It us French for blue in which there is no r either.

It is...

Jamrock - there were five girls and seven boys named Bleu here in the US in 2016.

Quite popular? I think not!