Seren/Steren

[mummyofboys30]

Seren = Welsh
Steren = Cornish
Both mean star. Which do you prefer and why? Also would you use as a first name or do you think they would be best as a middle name?

Serene has a nice “feel” soft on the tongue but a strong name, iykwim
Mathilda is getting rather popular if that would worry you at all. Serene Mathilda goes well

Typo there . Of course I meant Seren in both places . B... autocorrect

I've never heard of Seren but my daughter's middle name is Sterenn which also means star in Breton. I'm originally from Brittany but she was born near Paris and quite like having a first name and a middle name with a strong cultural identity.

Seren.

Steren sounds masculine.

@Cariadxx I thought Seren was pronounced like Derren?

It's to do where the stress is placed, @RosiePosies. In Welsh, the 'ren' part is stressed, so Seh-Ren, but English people would say Seh-Rn.

It's similar to Joseph, which Welsh people pronounce as Jo-SEPH, but English people as JO-sf.

Exactly. Sounds terrible if you pronounce it the wrong way

I think Matilda Seren is nice.

I don't like either of them. How about Stella or Astrid instead.

Ah, ok.
I'm a mother-tongue Welsh speaker.
Seren is pronounced SER-en, the e in the Ser part is like the e in the English word Set, and the en bit is pronounced like the en in the word end.