StCyr

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Hi all,
My husband and I got married in January. We are TTC now.
I have French roots and my husband is from an African country but both of us have been living in the UK (me - 20 years and he 12 years)
StCyr is an Old French surname meaning Victory. If we had a girl we would like to call our child this and pronounce it Sincere as in my husbands country it is very popular to call your child things like that (Praise, Glory etc)
I actually know a little girl who is currently 4 with this name but I haven't had chance to talk to her mum yet about it
Totally hypothetical now but AIBU to want to call a girl, if we have one StCyr but pronounce it Sincere?

I think it’s lovely and unusual. As a pp said, there are names like St John and St Clair that are pronounced with “sin” at the beginning.

It will be an absolute headache for her.

Also, you’ll look like copycats because it’s an incredibly distinctive name. There’s no law of course, but IMO it would be very weird to use it if you already know one (unless naming after).

What about actual Victory as a name? Or Victoire?

It looks like you were trying to type Stacy and hit the caps lock instead of the a, and then put a random r on the end. It sounds nice but looks awful

It will cause no end of headaches for her throughout life.

I read the name in the title as Sincere and was expecting a joke thread about unique spellings.
So it's a no from me. Sorry, OP.

If you was female name that means victory, then try the goddess Nike

I'm afraid I thought 'military college' when I saw St Cyr, and at least Nike doesn't have the same military ring to it

I'm in camp 'no'

It would be pronounced nothing like it looks, it resembles a misspelled word or place name

It’s a military academy and town, hideous and too try hard.

I’d pronounce it san-seer as well.

I also thought the pronunciation would be like "sticker". It looks very awkward and people will constantly spell and pronounce it wrong. If you really want to call her Sincere, spell it this way not StCyr

I’d think military college too, prefer Sincere.

I’m usually on the side of call your kid whatever you want but that name is really bad lol

Victoire means victory.
Why not just call her Sincere?
Lots of people living in the UK these days called Blessing, Precious, Mercy, Grace etc etc

I lived in France for many years (not far from St Cyr Coetquidan) and have never heard of it as a person's name.

I wouldn’t call a cat that, and I don’t Even like cats.

I read it as Sit-Car. I have an unusually spelt name which I always have to spell but people know how to say it correctly 99.9% of the time so it's fine. I think people will struggle with this so although I think when said correctly it's fine it will be butchered (like me above) too often sadly.

I'd pronounce it san-SEER and think you had some French military connections.

What about some of the lovely virtue names that have been suggested above, my favourites are

Verity
Faith
Charity
Hope
Constance
Prudence

Think OP needs to check those ‘french roots’ they’re a bit tangled 🙄🙄🇫🇷

I think it would cause her too many problems throughout life. School, job applications, everything. Everyone would think it was a typo and not know how to pronounce it.

If you’d like a name that signifies a virtue, how about Constance (Connie for short), or Faith? Both beautiful, traditional names that are not very common in the UK, but well-known enough for people to recognise them and not mispronounce or misspell them.

And, thinking ahead to the schoolyard, she shouldn’t get teased with a name like that, whereas she would be seen as weird with a name like StCyr.

I wouldn't spell it like that. Nobody will be able to pronounce or spell it, and she will spend her whole life spelling it out to everybody or correcting them.
Sincere as a name is fine, but I wouldn't spell it like that.

OP sorry but it really doesn’t work. The spelling looks like a typo and I just don’t feel like she’d thank you for it. It will be a nightmare for her - nobody will be able to spell or pronouns it and she will be explaining it constantly over and over again for her entire life because I’m sure literally EVERYONE will ask about it.

Thanks for all replies - its good to get an overall opinion, and if that overall opinion is a no then so be it, back to the drawing board

I love the names Honour and Blessing too so thank you to those posters who suggested those

No to your original idea. People just won't get it. Nor does it mean what you thought it meat. I doubt that even the French would get it.

Honour is quite nice, though I have usually seen it spelled Honor when being used as a name. My DD2 had a friend called Honor.

I've not seen Blessing used as a name. Not sure about it. Not my cup of tea really.

It would work in France OP but I think it would be too much hassle here.

Victoire is already French name. Otherwise Honor is a cool name here.

Why for a girl when it's the name of a boy?