Spanish speakers - would you?

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Name changed for this as potentially outing. I'm Scottish and expecting a baby boy in July. I'd love a name with Celtic connections and the only name DH and I agree on at the moment is Finn.

However, we live in Spain and will be staying here for the foreseeable. Given that 'fin' in Spanish means 'end', I have my doubts about using the name. Would you do it?

All thoughts gratefully accepted!

It wouldn't be Fleen, it would been Flynn. I've checked with a few Spaniards today.

Efren would be -Ef-ren, with the stress on the Ren.

How about Tomas (with an accent on the a, to show the emphasis is on the a and not the o)

All Spanish vowels are short sounds, not eee or aaa or oooo so Finn would sound like the start of the word 'finish' not like the start of the word 'feel'

Great feedback and ideas here from you all, thank you so much for taking the time.

@RuggarWoah I'll show my husband your list - one of the names there is his name, so he'll love it. We've thought about Alex and Daniel too as there are family links to both of these names, so maybe we'll consider them again.

I'm a teacher so have a good idea of the girls/boys name differences - I LOVE Noa for a little girl! I have female teaching colleagues called Louise and Joan, which really confuses the students. It's fascinating.

To top it all off DH and I come from different ends of the world so the name has to work in both of our accents too. It's so hard. Girls names seem to be much easier!

Where's your husband from?

It's difficult. My friend kids need names that work in 4 different languages. Alex seems to be the most international name, even with different accents, Alex is still Alex. With Daniel it often gets shortened to Dani and is pn Dan-E-Elle

He's Australian, so any names with an 'r' sound in the middle can sound odd and his vowels come out a little differently from mine! One of my closest colleagues has sons called Alex, Daniel and Samuel so seems to have cornered the market in international names!

My son born in Spanish country with Spanish step grandparents.

We went with Daisy's suggestion. Works very well in uk too as we returned many years ago!

It does work well youarenot my DSis was in Cataluña/ Catalunya when she had my DN's, she and the family are back in UK and Tomás and DBro Daniel slotted into UK schools very well. And no teasing even though the spelling is different - aren't kids so strange!

My half Spanish nephew
Is Oscar. Works well in both languages.