Sine?

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Husband is half Scottish/ half Irish so we're looking for a traditional Gaelic name. Thoughts on Sine? How would you pronounce it?

We have a 4 syllable surname so want a one-two syllable first name.

Middle name will be a traditional Welsh name (my side), we're thinking Ffion, Alys or Elin.

Sine cos and tan. algebra? equations. triangles. I dunno, I failed maths.

Choose Shona, it's prettier. or Fiona.

Makes me think of trigonometry too.
If you have twins you could call one Sine and the other Cosine ;)

Look,if even her parents don't know how to pronounce the name, that's God's way of telling you to pick another one.

Don't lumber her with a lifetime of having to explain how to say it, correct people who say it wrong, spell it out , etc. Not to mention the endless lame jokes. and puns.

I would pronounce it like "sign"

Assume boys name.

I don't like the name but it's what you think that matters.

Haha @Mischance of course I know how it's pronounced, I wanted to see how others would pronounce it and also see how many people knew the name.

We would pronounce it Seena.

Everything that's been said here has crossed our mind (even the trigonometry reference!). So thank you! It has made me re-think. I was never 100% but it's the closest name to what we've been looking for. I do think it's a lovely name though. Any other ideas?

I would guess at Sheen-ay. But it’s a guess. Does it have no accents?

I have a Dewi (I'm English, DH Welsh, live in SE Eng). He loves his name and is very resilient to the many varied pronunciations he is called, except for doo-ey.
We gave him two middle names so he has options later!

Personally, if I was naming another child, I would go with something that is Gaelic but familiar.

Could you use Síle? Irish, though. I really like it, and I’ve wondered why other forms of it, like Shelagh or Sheila haven’t come back.

My thoughts were either maths or sin (sinful, sinning etc). Which is a shame, as it's a pretty name.

I'm from NE Wales, Dewi gets said as Dowey by the non-welsh speakers.

It's a bit of a dad's name due a comeback, so it's good to hear of a young one.

I wouldn’t hazard a pronounciation without asking first, as I’ve not seen the name before and wouldn’t want to get it wrong.

I read it as the Latin sine (seenay) which means without.

Sign.

I haven't seen it before and was thinking the end had been missed off and it should be Sinus.

I would pronounce Sine as Shinna unless you used the fada, Síne would be Sheena

In Scottish Gaelic it's spelt Sìne and pronounced sheena (well, close enough). It's my daughter's middle name.

We would pronounce it Seena

Why?

If you want an Irish name, it would be Síne and pronounced Sheena.

If you want it to be Sine said Seena (which absolutely nobody will), don't say anything about it being Irish, because it isn't. I'd be amazed if it had any scottish basis that way either.

Pronounced Sheena. A beautiful name btw

It's Gaelic for Jean.
You can hear it pronounced by a Gaelic speaker here: learngaelic.scot/fichead-facal/ff-names-girls.jsp

As PP said, it's like Sheena, but not quite.
And as another PP said, it should have a fada on the 'i'

Made me think of Maths too, Sin, Cos, Tan. Not much of a name.

I am Irish and have taught many hundreds of students in Ireland and have never heard of the name Sine, but maybe it is Scottish.

If it is like the start of Sinéad it would be pronounced Shin.

I wouldnt give a baby a name I couldn't pronounce (but that's me 😅)

I'm Scottish but I wouldn't call a child Sine since they would constantly get called Sign and it gets very tiresome. (I have a name that is almost always mispronounced).

How about:

Shona
Seona
Shongah (all pronounced Show-na)
Seonaid (Shaw-nuhd, a bit like Sinead in Irish)
Sheila
Shelagh
Sheena/gh

Shonagh, not Shongah.

Do either of you speak gaelic? Do you live somewhere that people dk speak gaelic? I'm always confused as to why people call their children names that come from a different language when they don't speak it or live somewhere that people will know how to pronounce it.
I have a Scottish gaelic middle name, obviously I don't use it much because it's a middle name but it's not a very difficult one, and no one seems to know the correct way to pronounce it, even although I live in Scotland.

I would avoid giving a child a name that has to be forever spelled out and is often mispronounced. It must be so frustrating having to keep correcting people when they get it wrong! Keep it simple is my motto 🙄

It's Gaelic for Jean

It's really annoying when people say every Irish or Scottish or whatever name is a translation of an English one. They aren't. Síne is Irish for Síne.
(and if anything, it's closer to Jane)