How would you say Ceri? And would you know how to spell it?

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Considering this as a girl's name, but worried that it'll be constantly mis-spelt/mispronounced (we don't live in Wales). Thoughts, please?

I worked with a male Ceri. His specialist field was shagging as many women as he could who weren't his wife.

PuppyMonkey interesting you should say that, I think I’ve encountered more people reading it as ‘Serry’ since the rise of Game of Thrones and wondered if it was connected to Cersei!

OP, I really love my name. The odd Serry/Cherry doesn’t put me off it.

Kerry of course.

I wouldn't worry even about living in a place where most people would go for Cherry/Seri. It's such a simple name that it only takes saying it once to correct. And Kerry is such a familiar normal name that there would be no problems on introduction, they'd assume spelling would be Kerry but as soon as it's written down - again no problem. It's pretty simple.

Oh and yes I know male and female ones - and somehow it suits both equally. A true unisex name in Wales.

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I wonder if he's my ex

I would pronounce it Kerry and would spell it like that if I heard it said, too. Ceri is sweet but unless you live in Wales, I think there will be a lifetime of correcting other people by the poor child.

Sarah and Sara is an odd one. I would pronounce them differently and don’t get why eg Sara Cox says it’s Sarah??!

It's the Welsh version of Kerry I think. I'd pronounce it the same.

Sarah and Sara is an odd one. I would pronounce them differently and don’t get why eg Sara Cox says it’s Sarah??!

Probably because her mother decided she wanted a more unusual spelling for Sarah, causing poor Sara a lifetime of grief explaining that she's a Sarah not a Sara.

She calls herself Sarah because that's how her parents always said it. So that's her name. It's just spelt wrongly.

I'd say Kerry if I saw it written as Ceri, because it's like names like Cerys/Carys, etc. I'm in the southeast. But if I just heard it, I'd assume it was spelled Kerry as my first thought.

She calls herself Sarah because that's how her parents always said it. So that's her name. It's just spelt wrongly.

Every American Sara I've met (I've met a lot of them) pronounced their name as Sarah, so I don't buy that it's an incorrect spelling.

I know a couple of Sara's, both pronounce it Sarah.

I would pronounce Ceri like Kerry because I used to know someone with the name.

My daughter is a Keri , but usually gets spelt Kerry or Kerri. If l was to write the name l would check spelling

Maybe that's an accent /pronunciation thing though. Lots of words with an a in are pronounced that way in America.

Bath, grant, can't etc.

"Maybe that's an accent /pronunciation thing though. Lots of words with an a in are pronounced that way in America."

"Bath, grant, can't etc"

I, and the Sara's I know who pronounce it Sarah, are in SE England, where bath, grant, can't all rhyme with bar and car.

Kerry.

I’d see Ceri and know how to say it, but if I heard “Ceri” I’d probably spell it Kerry. If she said Ceri with a C I’d know exactly how to spell it.

Maybe that's an accent /pronunciation thing though.

Nope.

It's said as Kerry. I would stick with the more common spelling, Kerry.

But Ceri is a different name, I think it's a different origin to Kerry, it's just a coincidence that they sound the same. Ceri is a Welsh name and looks much nicer written down than Kerry. I'm surprised more of you don't seem to have heard of it.

I’ve seen the name but never heard it pronounced so have always read it as “Cherry”.

I'm not American and I'd never met anybody who
didn't pronounce Sara the same as Sarah until I was about 30. I thought they were just different spellings of the same thing, like Clare/Claire. Maybe which way people pronounce Sara is regional.

For what it's worth, I knew that Ceri is pronounced like Kerry.

I've never heard or seen the name before. I wouldn't know if it was a boy or girl. Before I read the thread I I would have wavered between pronouncing it Seri or Kerry and would have plumped for Seri.

If someone told me their name was Kerry (and pronounced rhyme with Ferry) my instinct would be to spell as Kerry.

I'm from Wales so know it's pronounced Kerry. I can kind of see where people are getting Serri from - but how do you get Cherry? Is c a CH sound in Ireland or something?

Cello has a ch sound so maybe that's where they get the idea of cherry.

Aah yes, good thinking squoosh. So Italian type pronunciation then.