Harri vs Rhodri vs Tomos

[lucieloos]

Which one? Baby due soon and can't decide which we like best!

Definitely Rhodri

I prefer Tomos, but like Rhodri and Harri too. Don't know any little boys called Rhodri.
Llongyfarchiadau a phob lwc!

Rhodri, Harri and Tomos - in that order!

Maybe wait till he's born and see which one he 'looks' or 'feels' like? Thats what I would do.

Really liking Tomos

Best of luck with the birth

Another vote for Rhodri.

Rhodri.

The others may well be the correct spelling but is he going to live his entire life in Wales?

Having a Welsh spelling outside Wales isn't a problem. They are all lovely names OP. Pobl cul yn meddwl mai Lloegr ydi canol y byd wedi ateb hwn!

Ia wir! mamimawr
I do wonder if anyone would comment about names from other ethnicities in this way. If someone from, say, Poland wanted to give her child a Polish name, would you feel just as comfortable telling her that if the child was going to live in England, an English name would be better? What about India? What about Nigeria?
Respect costs nothing. I have a Welsh name, and it's beautiful, I love it and actually it's a great tool- when people comment negatively upon hearing it, do a face or suggest I should have an English name, it's useful because I know that they're prejudiced and not the kind of people I want to spend time with.

Love Rhodri

I have a Tomos - 😍 so biased but I live in England so I’m constantly correcting pronunciation (I knew I would) - think if he gets sick of it when he’s older he can go by Tom and not have to correct spelling/pronunciation then but I don’t love the nickname so will use Tomos (though after this thread I do like Tomo!)

Rhodri outside Wales will be pronounced Rodry. OP is in Wales, so it's not an issue. Of the 3, I think I would choose Harri.

The others may well be the correct spelling but is he going to live his entire life in Wales?

Would you say that to someone planing to call the child Siobhan?

Or Eilidh?

The U.K. has four Kingdoms.
It has lots of immigrants from all over the world.

Most people can cope with an unusual name fine after they learn it.

Both my children have very Scottish names. When we’ve lived outside Scotland people have just learned the name if it’s new to them.

You have to spell it out a few times but it’s hardly a big deal.

Rhodri sounds old mannish to me but like the other ones!!

Not for you, but it might be for the child. Also, having your name pronounced incorrectly or spelled incorrectly would probably be a PITA.

Mike I’ve had to spell out my name all of my life.

My children will have to spell out their names to anyone who isn’t Scottish.

It’s fine. It’s really not a big deal.

Lots of people with perfectly ordinary names have to spell them eg Claire/Clair/Clare or Iain/Ian or Geoff/Jeff etc etc

I agree the spelling of the name doesn't bother me. My daughter has a common name which can be spelt a number of different ways it's fine. I've occasionally had to spell it a few times but it's not an issue so that wouldn't really come into my decision. If he decides to live somewhere other than wales I'm sure he can manage to spell it a few times when needed.

Nooooo, no no no no NO. Rhodri is a horrible name and you must not use it because I really like DS having an unusual name and if everyone picks it he will just be one of the crowd

Tomos tends to just become another Tom in a sea of Toms. Or Tomos' if you live in Wales, there's a few about.

Don't like Harri, just doesn't seem to be a proper name to me. Why isn't it Hari - this has always bothered me!

I have a Harri so naturally that’s my favourite!

I've had to spell my name to people all my life and it's not even unusual.

Would you say that to someone planing to call the child Siobhan?

No. Because it isn't something that looks, to a non Irish speaker, like a yoonique spelling.

I had a perfectly normal English name with a terrible spelling and spent the first 2/3 of my life saying, "My name is X, spelled Xxyy..." and 9/10 times the person I was spelling the name too would have written the 'normal' spelling.

A deed poll eventually solved that problem.

Most people can cope with an unusual name fine after they learn it.

But from personal experience not if they think it is a very normal English name.

I taught a Iona once, she had to put up with people thinking it was pronounced like the Scottish Island because, outside Wales, that's what most people read it as.

My name is perfectly normal and I always have to spell it. It's really not a big deal.

Ugh I knew before I opened the thread that you’d have ignorant people criticising the spellings.

I love Tomos, I only know one (adult) with that name and he’s absolutely lovely.

I like Tomos best
How is it different to Thomas when pronounced?
(Could google)

Marsha - whereas Thomas is TOM-uss in most accents, Tomos has an equal stress on each syllable and a clear ‘o’ sound in the second syllable, like the word ‘moss’.