Thalia or Cadence

[FannyTheFlamingo]

These are my 2 new favourites. What does everyone think? How would you pronounce Thalia?

This is Cadence from Fantastic Beasts. We call DS the name when he needs a haircut!

Cadence is a My Little Pony

I can never understand why anyone would consider a name for a baby that they don't even know how to pronounce?!

Thalia reminds me of Antonia Forest Marlow books. She definitely pronounced it with a TH as in Thursday, as there were various jokes by the character about how it sounded like Failure to a lot of people! Pretty though when said properly. character in question went by nickname of Tim!

Sorry, should have said I love Talia - it was on my list.

Cadence would make me think of cycling and I think it is pretty awful as a name.
Thalia - I'd say it Tahl-ya. Not keen really - prefer Natalia.

(btw the Thalia in the Antonia Forest books was definitely named after the muse, hence the 'th' pronunciation. I guess if you were thinking of it as a variant of Natalia or that sort of derivation, you would choose the 'ta-lee-a' sound).

It also depends where you live. We have a 10 yo Thalia born in the SE. Everyone could pronounce her name as we expected (Tarlia) except the nurse at our GP surgery who called her Thally-er, which was odd. We didn't ever meet anyone with her name.

There are 2 roots of this name. One is the Greek, pronounced to rhyme with failure and the other is the Slavic, said the way we say it.

We moved to the SW when she was 3. At nursery everything was fine, except that everywhere we went we met another Thalia. Not quite so unusual. Then she started school. Every bugger calls her Tally-er which is just so ugly. I have tried so hard to correct them but it seems it's the accent.

There is another one at gym, one at Holiday Club, one at Brownies, one at drama group (and all different girls too ).

Coincidentally we did consider Cadence. She is a My Little Pony Princess, sister of Celestia. . Perhaps Celestia might have been a safer option!

skinnyamericano The lad from Fantastic Beasts is Credence, not Cadence. I've only ever heard Cadence as a girls name.

We moved to the SW when she was 3...Every bugger calls her Tally-er which is just so ugly. I have tried so hard to correct them but it seems it's the accent.

But surely this is an accent thing. You can't expect people in the SW to pronounce the name in the same way as people in the SE do.

I'm suddenly reminded of the looooong Frances thread...

A pp said " the name is actually a word" um a lot of names are words not names.
I'm Irish and my name is a saying, that became a name

I am not fond of either name unfortunately (but that doesn't matter if you like them.) I'd say there could be confusion with the pronunciation of Thalia (Ta lee ah) and Cadence sounds like some sort of nasty legal process rather than a girl's name.

How about Constance

Thalia, a bit like Thomas, therefore pronounced Tar-lee-ah.

Beautiful name

Cyclist here too.

In cycling, your cadence is the number of revolutions of the crank per minute. Basically cadence is your pedalling rate.

I've come on this thread to inform everyone that not only can you have perfect, plagal, imperfect and interrupted cadences, there are also Phrygian cadences, Lydian cadences and Burgundian cadences.

Prefer Thalia.

Thalia can be pronounced tah-lee-ah or tha-lee-ah. The latter is how the Thalia in Greek myth is pronounced, but the former is how most people (in western countries, anyway) will pronounce it.

Weighing in for cadence. Think its beautiful.

Another cyclist here who would find cadence a very strange name.

Durutti Amen to that!

Oh and I went to school with a Greek Thalia and it was pronounced th not T. Which is much nicer IMO.

Have a cycling obsessed DH therefore cadence also means something very boring to do with that.
I like Thalia and I would pronounce the th.
Not a weirdo thanks @CheapSausagesAndSpam, just the way I have heard it used in a Greek / British family.

Thalia.

Pronounced Tarlia.

Another vote for Thalia.

Talia is lovely, but drop the H. Apart from it giving differing pronunciations for some, it also makes the name look clumsy. It doesn't need an H.

No idea why some people are sticking an R sound in the middle of it though