Alaw

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Welsh girls name,means melody....what are our thoughts?

Beautiful name!

I have a cousin with a little girl with this name. They do live in Wales. I think it would be very unusual outside of Wales. I do like it.

Not a fan of it, isn’t awful though.

I’m not a fan.

How is it pronounced?

AH low rhyming with now.

Haven't heard this before, I think it's pretty. Will be forever pronounced incorrectly by English people though.

No and I'm Welsh.

No. Spend a life time describing how it's spelt and pronounced.

I’ve lived in wales for 14 years and never heard of it. I wouldn’t know how to pronounce it either, although I’m usually ok with welsh names

It just makes me think of Alan sorry

I though it was a boy's name. Not keen sorry.

Yes,I'm a Welsh speaker.out of curiosity how would an English speaker pronounce it?

I think I'd say that "al-or", sort of like the French "alors".

I love it! And it's becoming more popular now, I've heard it a couple of times recently. I have a far more unusual Welsh name. Nobody knows how to pronounce it at first, but like Alaw, it's 4 letters and 2 syllables so it's not exactly difficult to pick up.

As an Irish person I think I would have pronounced it as A Law. But I would have been very aware of the fact that I was probably doing it wrong as Welsh isn't a language I'm familiar with. Very easy to pick up once you've heard the proper pronunciation though.

Plus there's none of the trickier Welsh phonetics like Ll that would make it really hard to pronounce.

I've never heard of it before, but I really like it.

I'm not sure - it would confuse me as to how to pronounce it.

I'm generally of the opinion that you choose a name you like and other people like it or lump it. I'm from
NI and love a lot of Irish names and would have had no problem at all using them with proper spelling and just expecting people to get used to it.

I think vowels are a tricky one though. My initial thoughts on pronunciation were Ah-law but then I thought that with an English accent it would probably be A-law (as in the letter A). I would never have come up with Ah-low to rhyme with now. (And that's a whole other issue for people from NI as we pronounce the "ow"/"ou" sound totally differently to the rest of the UK!)

I'm a welsh speaker and love it. I wouldn't inflict it on a child unless she was being brought up in a welsh speaking community though.

Is it pronounced liked the English word 'allow' as in give permission? But with the emphasis more on the second syllable?

If being brought up in a Welsh speaking community although that might not continue as an adult. I would have guessed "Al -or" without the explanation. Depends if that bother you or you think it will bother them.

It is a bit like english "allow" but the stress is on the first syllable rather than second

That's actually what I meant Frazzled!

I thought it was a mis print of Alan.