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[MissMoodyMoo]

What would your first instinct be? Pronunciation

Fiadh 😍

Lord of the rings

Fee - uh ??

I first pronounced it fire but I'm rubbish when it comes to pronunciation lol x

Fie- duh

Fe-ah as in fear?

I love it MIL hates it and refuses to refer to the baby whom will be here in a few weeks as it! We've literally been calling her it since we found out at 16 weeks she is a girl! Now I'm having doubts

I wouldn't know if it was a girl or boy.
Pronunciation - Fear, maybe Fire, Fie-ad?

It's supposed to be pronounced fee-a isnt it? Id worry about it being pronounced fear or sounding like someone mispronouncing thea

Fee - da

I really advise against - where does it come from?

It's a gaelic Irish name so in our accent it wouldn't be pronounced as "fear"

It's fee-ah like the ending of Sofia

When I picture myself with her I know she is a Fiadh

Ah if you’re Irish go for it, it’d be butchered by most English accents though

Do you live in Ireland?

Could you go with Sophia and use this as q nickname?

It's pretty, but if you live in England she will grow up having to explain how to pronounce it

If you love it, and you're already picturing her with that name - stick with it. You'll have regrets otherwise, and MIL will come round

Actually the pronunciation would work quite well with an Irish accent.

My DS has an Irish name that can be spelled several ways. After he was born we handed the midwife a list of the various spellings and asked her to read them. The one that sounded vaguely like his actual name was the one we went with!

I went to school with one. She got called Faddy all the time.

Fee-ar-duh

Actually the pronunciation would work quite well with an Irish accent.

English accent I meant to say.

Fee-v?

Dh can sometimes sound like a v in Scottish Gaelic I think, (and I'm Scottish but east coast so not a speaker!) so that would be my first guess.

For me the end of Sofia and the word fear sound exactly the same! So-fear. Fear has two syllables to me. Do you pronounce it with only one?

Do you live in Ireland? If not... I'm unsure about it in terms of the spelling you're going for. I love the name as it sounds but the '-dh' bit of spelling makes it hard to figure out how to pronounce it. Could you spell it some other way? Feah or Fiah? Though unsure either of those are much help really...

Ah just seen your update. I like it. If it's the name you love, use it! Your MIL will have to lump it, not her child to name!
My only proviso is wait until she's born before finally declaring - sometimes they look so different, another name works better (happened to me!)

festive accents are amazing aren't they? I find it fascinating. In mine Sofia is so-fee-a and fear is more like fee-urr so sound totally different. That Scottish r!

We live in the West of Scotland and when telling people we haven't had much issue with the pronunciation. My dad has said straight away he'll never learn how to spell it 😡😡😡 people seem to love the name Niamh and have no problem with the spelling but are really thrown off with Fiadh 😂😂