Does anyone feel this way about a name?

[SunRayLoving]

This is just a general question for people with a mixed heritage or background. Do you ever feel like a name has lost its connection to your background/origins due to its popularity and how common it is for people that don't have a connection to that culture/country to use it now?

I feel this way about the name Luna. Maybe 10-15 years ago it would have been a lovely name to represent my background but now I feel it's totally unusable. Of course no one owns a name and we are all free to name our DC whatever name we choose and it's absolutely respectable.

I'm just wondering if anyone feels like that too about any names in particular. Not trying to come off as a stuck up or saying I own any names at all but just a thought really.

It's not usually a matter of accent, though. Siobhán is not SY-oh-ban or Chiffon. Tadhg is not Tadge or Tag. Those are mistakes. If you are naming your child one of these names and pronouncing it that way, you are doing the equivalent of calling your child Yvonne and pronouncing it Wy-vonny.

It was a matter of accent in my post, @desertserges, which you have wilfully misread. I'm talking about the variation which happens to a broadly correct pronunciation in a regional accent.

written in the same alphabet with some variant sounds

Welsh has a different alphabet to English. ch, ll and rh in particular are sounds which do not exist in English.

You are confusing alphabet and script, @Desertserges. Welsh is written in Latin script but it has a distinct alphabet.

Where does Luna come from?
Thought it was to do with the moon

@PuntoEBasta, I post because many welsh sounds are difficult unless you have grown up with them.

You can't teach everyone how to say certain names. I can think of an Eifion who got Evian or Avian, and a Geraint who got Juh-raint, Gurrant and Grant. Both nice names but if you have such a name, you have to live with it, and a miss is as good as a mile. Usually when people try to say the name, they just don't quite hear it right.

I'm not talking about Kaffy or Kair-teh type differences as that is down to accent.

I see many posts where the equivalent would be someone from Liverpool claiming that Claire is said as Clur - it might be there but that isn't the pronunciation, it's the accent.

I have friends with Mandarin names, but no Xhosa ones.

Yes, Welsh does have its own alphabet. Ch, Dd, Ff, Ng, Ll, Ph, Rh, Th are letters.
There is no J, K, Q, V, X or Z.
W and Y are vowels, and H can be treated as a vowel at times.

The vowels often form diphthongs, and many have no equivalents in English. Some vowel and consonant combinations are difficult if you don't speak Welsh.

In Welsh the stress is always on the penultimate syllable.

A name like Marian is MARR-yan not Marry-Ann. It's not accent policing, it's caring about the language.