How would you spell it?

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Rhymes with "higher"/"buyer" but beginning with an N.

We like this as our girls name, but just wondering how you would spell it to get the right pronunciation?

Nia

Naya I would pronounce Neigh-a
Naiah I would pronounce Neigh-a

Nya definitely, to avoid mispronunciation.

It a nice name, but your daughter will spend her whole life telling people how to spell it.

Not Nia. It already exists as a long-established and fairly popular Welsh girls’ name, pn nee-a.

Naia like Gaia is prettiest imho. Nya looks how you’d render a mocking taunt.

Yeah I really don’t like Nia or Nya. Both are ugly IMO.

Naiya, or if you must, Naia.

Actually, no, Nia isn’t ugly. But everyone would say Neeah. It’s a different name. Nya is a very inelegant way of spelling the name you’re trying to pronounce.

Rhymes with "higher"/"buyer" but beginning with an N.

Then spell it Nigher or Nuyer!

Nya or Nia will be pronounced Nee ah.

It’s an accent/dialect issue. A bit of a mix up in trying to give examples for the ‘ah’ sound...It’ll never be solved (if you like you could read back through other threads and long protracted discussions on Bath/Bahth/Barth 😉 ).

I think Nya would most likely be pronounced Neye-ah by the majority. I don’t think many people would read that as having an ee sound.

Hmm,

I'm not sure there's a win here.

Anything Ni might be Nee
Anything Nai or Nei might be Nay

Nyah possibly, I might read it as N-yah but would probably assume that wasn't how it was meant to sound.

I teach a Mia who is Mee-a and a Mia who is My-a, I make notes on my seating plan so I don't forget until I get to know them enough to remember automatically.

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Naia like Gaia for me I think

Yes, same here.

Nigher!

Naia would be Nay a.

I would say Nya or Nyah.

I’m just seeing Nah...

Nyah or Nigher.

Nyah is a lot nicer than Nya, imo. But for some reason it has a masculine quality to it, so for that reason I would avoid it for a girl’s name.

I know a Nyah.

It doesn't rhyme with higher or buyer to me though..

Nya/Nyah/Nia/Niah etc all end in ah

Higher/buyer end in er

Tha one in DD’s class is Nyah.

How does Naya/Nia/Nya rhyme with higher or buyer?!? Higher and buyer end with er so surely it would be spelt Nyer. Am I missing something?

Ah, here they are.

OP clearly has a non-rhotic accent.

Rhymes with "higher"/"buyer" but beginning with an N.

The op wants it to rhyme with higher and buyer!

Had to google non rhotic (!) Learned something new today about how rhyming might be different to non rhotic speakers, interesting

I know a little girl called Inaya pronounced In eye a

Ah, here they are.

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OP clearly has a non-rhotic accent

It may be clear to you. I was just posting how I would say the name. Had no idea re the non-rhotic accent. Happy to learn. Not so happy it has to come with a sarcastic undertone.

Sorry @carexfairex, no offence meant. I don’t know if you spend much time on the baby name boards but it is an absolute given that as soon as a poster uses an ‘r’ to represent their own non-rhotic pronunciation a klaxon goes out for multiple rhotic speakers to come and state that they have no idea what the OP is talking about. Every time.