Wyatt for DS

[emilyroberts]

Thoughts on Wyatt for a boys name? Also how would you pronounce as DH thinks it would get confused with other ways🤔??

I would pronounce it WY-ett, not WHY-utt, and it's not a name I like.

I love this name! Definitely on the table for if we have a boy!

I would wonder why Wyatt

It's awful.

It's a very American name to me, although I really don't mind it. Reminds me of baby Wyatt in the original Charmed series 😄 x

Actual American here and yeah, it’s an American name. It’s also a surname-as-first-name which you may or may not like but which is not exclusively American - just for example Scots do this a lot too. For the pronunciation, the stress is on the first syllable but it is not like “why”, it’s like the letter Y or to rhyme with cry, sigh, etc. The second syllable is like at (I am at her house) or it (it is complicated) depending on accent. Also, agree with Kiki275 who cited Charmed - that’s also my first thought and in that case it was used to include the father’s name (he is Leo Wyatt) as they were using the mother’s surname.

Its Beautiful I love it Congratulations x

'It's not like "why", it's the letter Y' - surely that makes the same sound to most people?

I don't like it, very cowboy - ish. I dislike most surname type first names anyway. They don't seem like true names.

Today 20:02 Pemba

'It's not like "why", it's the letter Y' - surely that makes the same sound to most people?

Not any native English speaker I have ever known, and I would caution my ESL/EFL students to avoid it.

I would say Y and why the same way and I can’t really think how they would be pronounced differently?

To me, both 'Y' and 'Why' rhyme with cry, sigh (and each other)

Irish people say 'why' and the letter Y quite differently.

It's hard to put into writing, but 'wh' is a distinctive sound, both letters are blended together to make a sound quite different to the sound at the start of words like 'way'. It's the same with 'what', 'when' or any other word beginning with 'wh'.

Oh, maybe it's that rhotic/non-rhotic accent thing again. Come to think of it, I have heard some people (mainly Scottish), saying it sort of like h-why. Is that what you mean? Do Americans say it that way really?

Not the norm in England though, and we are definitely 'native English speakers'

Its unusual I’ve only met one person with that name. Pronounced as why-ack

Sorry, Pemba, I think you’re right - I’ve just been told by an Englishman from the Midlands AND an American from Maine that Y and “why” sound identical. For me it’s like the internet controversy over the dress that some see as blue and some as white- I get it when it’s right in front of me but when I think about it later I am all - “Y? Why? TOTALLY different!” Anyway, this may not help the OP, to whom I’d say use it if you love it.

"Y" and "why" are pronounced exactly the same in American English.

I love the name Wyatt, but then I'm American. I agree with others it's an extremely American name. It used to be a bit of an uncommon name that would have immediately called to mind Wyatt Earp, but it's just a mainstream trendy name now. Think Finn, Willow, etc.

No no no!
Very American and as pp said, makes me think of Wyatt Langmore in Ozark which is not the nicest comparison.

[quote DramaAlpaca]@WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants in the 1840s it would've been a family surname being passed on as a first name so that name didn't die out entirely.

And it's 'corral', not 'coral', btw [/quote]
Coral/corral
Yes, I know that - Tell my phone, it has its own opinions and I've given up caring 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes, but my point was it's been a first name for almost 200 years, so I think it's pretty established as such

I don't like it. It may feel very American, as pps have said, because it is in fact extremely popular in the US - very high in the name charts.

I like it! And I'm usually the one saying "yuck" on every single baby name thread!
Yes, it has a hint of the wild west about it, but I don't see why being American makes it a bad thing.

I'm also someone who says "Y" and "why" differently.

I'd pronounce Wyatt as: Y - IT

It’s horrible. I don’t know why(att) so many people like it, I think it looks and sounds ugly.

Wyatt Earp is my first thought

I say it why- ut.

I knew a baby Wyatt, years ago, it suited him. I'm not sure why people are so sneery about it other than it being very American and a lot of Brits like to look down on anything they perceive as American.

I think it's horrible but that's a purely personal preference. It does make me think of a wrinkled American cowboy but I guess that's just me!

Fine if you live in the Wild West.

@yearinyearout

Fine if you live in the Wild West.

Why's that then?