Baby names you wouldn't choose because of regional accents

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Just for fun really... no offence intended!

Is there any names you think sound better in a certain UK accent and if you'd avoid using them because they sound awful in some accents?

Example. We live in the midlands and did quite like the name Leo, it would just be that pronounced short and sweet however in-laws are from West Yorkshire who stereotypically like to hold onto their o's. So it would be Lee-oooooooooooooo

I also think Rafe sounds the best in a north east accent!

Interested to hear more!

My sister liked Peter for a boy, but her (English) DH vetoed it on the basis of how it’s pronounced by us in NI.

Peedur.

@ArthurShelbysTash

I love Hester. I live in the north east but am not a native. They drop their "h". I do not love Ester.

Geordie born and bred and have never heard a native drop their Hs, that's stereotypically a Yorkshire thing. North Easterners would say Hester or more likely Hesta.

However the name Natalie (as already raised by a fellow north easterner) is a huge issue as it loses the T.

CeeceeBloomingdale oh that reminds me of my DM’s favourite joke (Doncaster):

Knock knock
Who’s there?
Esther
Esther who?
‘Ast tha ‘ad tha tea? (Have you had your tea?)

Incomprehensible in a non-Yorkshire accent. Pretty incomprehensible if you are from Yorkshire and don’t speak as broad as that. Esther was also not a particularly common name in the 1980s, so as children we were just completely baffled by it.

I remember parents who were travellers telling me their baby girls name was Evva, I thought Eva, but no. It was Heather. That was a while ago, she’s probably in her 30s now.

I have family from the South Wales valleys and my cousin is called Hope, most of them pronounce it Orpe lol (same as Thorpe)

Tabifa, Fea, Arriet, Arry, Feo, Luker, Ugo.

Lewis is completely butchered by the Derry accent. Ends up being pronounced- Luhssss

@Terriblecreature

I am Scottish and cannot say Carl properly at all. In fact all my work mates are the same - we work with a Carl whom is based down south. When we say it l, it sounds like Carol lol

Yes,

and Pearl = Peril
Dawn = Don

I love these😂! Great thread, OP

I wanted Etta for a girl but my husband is from London and drops his t’s so it sounds horrendous.

Where I live there's a lot of dropped H's and there's a horrible pronunciation of the 'a' sound when it's 'ay' or 'ah' in names like Grace or Charlie. So lots ruled out there.
Have family in East Yorkshire which put me of Theo after hearing my Auntie saying Theeyeeeerrrrr..

Pearl - pronounced like "peril" in some parts of Scotland. Not a nice word for your name to sound like.

I remember a thread from some time ago where the OP had a DD called Pearl and was considering calling her second DD Beryl. A number of Scottish posters pointed out that, in their accents, they pretty much sound like the same name!

I wanted Etta for a girl but my husband is from London and drops his t’s so it sounds horrendous.

Am I so weird that I instantly heard your DH speaking like a Tellietubby in my head?!

I used to know a man from NI who had a friend (from elsewhere) called Darren. Every time he said his name, he sounded like a farmer from Kansas avoiding very mildly swearing

I know a Tal.
The rest of the class pronounce it Towel.

My Aunt is called Heather. It gets brutalised by a family friend with a Humberside accent (where the H gets dropped and the vowel sounds battered.) 'Ethur'. Yuk!