Caoimhe

[MissMoodyMoo]

I'm sure this has been debated before!
Keeva
Or
Kweeva

I love keeva but again have heard it pronounced both ways! My partners niece middle name is the "kweeva" pronunciation
Our first daughter has an irish name so we would like another although we are living in Scotland we have never had a problem with our first daughters pronunciation after the initial how do you pronounce that
Would love peoples opinions

Thanks x

No W

it's just a dialect thing, I know it as Kweeva, but I think either Kweeva or Keeva would be fine. Your problem is the - Ka-oim-hey pronunciations, but to be fair unless you were aware of Irish pronunciations or were familiar with the name, that is what it looks like.

Keeva here too.

Heard both, prefer kee-va pronunciation.

Kweeva in the part of Ireland where I live.

A friend spelled her daughter's name Keava to avoid that pronunciation as that's what she'd get round here.

The Ulster pronunciation is Keeva, so that seems more appropriate in Scotland where Gaelic is closer to the Ulster dialect.

It's not really ever Kweeva, the "w" sound is softer and made in the back of the throat and not with the lips. I would avoid it outside of Ireland because Kweeva with a heavy English w sound us very ugly.

Keeva is a gorgeous sound. Kweeva not so much. Sounds like queef.

I knew one from NI who pronounced it Keeva. She had to explain it a few times but people quickly learned how to say and spell it (she was rather fierce).

I really like it.

I love Irish names. Never in a million years would I think that spelling would be pronounced that way.

Absolutely love this name, I would pronounce it keeva

I know two Caoimhe's

1 keeva (I like) who is 9
1 queeva (I don't like) who is 1

Like / don't like the pronunciations not the children haha

Definitely Keeva. The alternative sounds like a Quaver (crisp).

I've only heard it pronounced as Qweeva here. I mean I know there is another pronunciation but every Caoimhe I know is pronounced Qweeva.

I pronounce it Keeva but I’m from the north of Ireland. Around Dublin it’s Qweeva shutters - much prefer Ulster/West pronunciation

Dublin SIL is Kweeva.

I’m from NI so took me a while to get used to it the difference but now I prefer it.

Every time I hear the Keeva pronounciation I think of a girl from Derry who I used to work with in Dublin. When new people called her Kweeva she used to say SO LOUDLY “Eh it’s actually Keeva” in a really obnoxious and eyerolly way.

Queeeva as well.
Not Kweeva.

And the English attempt Ka-oim-hey is everywhere!