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Can I please ask French and Irish speakers (or anyone really) about Eoin and Owen?

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FindTheLightSwitchDarren · 01/10/2017 13:45

How would you pronounce these please?

I would probably say oh-win for both, (non Irish speaking, Irish woman here).

The reason I ask is a bit complicated, but it's to do with how Owen is pronounced in French. Owen, pronounced oh-wen, sounds like the letters o and n in French - I read a thread on here recently where a boy wanted to change his name as he lived in France and hated the o n thing - c'est oh-wen sounds like c-o-n, which is a derogatory word in French)! We have (vague) ties to France and it isn't beyond the realms of possibility that we could end up living there at some point. So, is Eoin more likely to be pronounced oh-win than Owen iyswim?

We are also considering Rowan / Rohan.

Finding boy names really difficult!

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FizzyGreenWater · 07/10/2017 14:39

Why don't you go for the Breton name Yann? It's lovely.

Or: Owain, Iwan, Ioan (yoh-ann)?

Liadain · 07/10/2017 14:44

I'm Irish, I would pronounce Eoghan/Eoin/Owen the same - OH-en or OH-un I think. I'm not a fan of the Owen variation but I like the other two.

MissWilmottsGhost · 07/10/2017 14:50

I know of a Ioan, pronounced yo-en, which I really love.

FindTheLightSwitchDarren · 07/10/2017 15:35

I like Ioan, but I have zero connection to Wales. I also know two utterly dreadful adult Euans and Ioan sounds a bit too similar.

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