Dahlia Blythe

[Talissa]

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Pronounced:

D - as in d̲am
A - as in ba̲t, ca̲n
L - as in l̲amp
y - as in y̲eti
ə - as in a̲bout

B - as in b̲ed
L - as in l̲amp
IE - as in bi̲te, ki̲nd
DH - as in t̲h̲en

A character in an Agatha Christie.

Fair enough, I take an amount of my patronising comment back. The long Dar-lee-ah pronunciation is I think from the h (as in "oh I see, ah") but isn't common here. Dahlias are popular flowers in the UK so that's why most of us are naturally pronouncing it that way and the short a Day-lee-ah is how you say the flower.

Dahlia Blythe is lovely imo - very elegant sounding. If you don't want the floral Day-lee-ah pronunciation (which you will get at least 50% of the time in the UK), I'd consider using the Hebrew Dalia spelling instead (which as far as I know is always pronounced Dah - lee -ah).

Having said that, pronunciation issues haven't affected the popularity of Top 100 Esme (Ez -may or Ez -mee), Maya (My -ah or May -ah) or Thea (Thee -ah or Tay -ah) etc - so maybe it doesn't matter.

I think youre saying Dahlia wrong (I know two - both said like dar(rhymes with car)-lia. Doesn't sound right with a short 'a' sound.

I like the name though.

I have to agree I know two ways to pronounce the name in the UK and neither of them are the way you are suggesting.

Provided you don't mind everyone mispronouncing it in your eyes at least the first time then it is a nice name.

(the pronunciation is because of the 'h'. If you want it with a short a sound then lose the 'h' maybe)

Yeah, the pronunciation guides in behindthename are sometimes very weird (which is odd because their other info is quite good).

I would also say it day-lee-a, but if you're in the USA it's probably dah-lee-a with the first vowel of "father".

Nice enough name, a bit vintagey for me personally.

The R pronunciation is because some English accents put "r"s after "a"s. So eg Joanna becomes Joannar.
It only matters if you live in a part of England with that accent.
I love Dahlia Blythe and would pronounce it Dah-li-a.

Dahlia would make me think of Bertie Wooster’s Aunt Dahlia but you probably don’t need to worry overly much about that.

Honest opinion - I really don't like it and it is just not pronounced like that. Day-lia or Dar-lia or spell it differently. Delia is a better choice. Blythe - don't like it all. It's a surname for me.

I don't like Blythe, unless it's a family name I wouldn't use it.

Any name where it needs a pronounciation guide and even then it's not clear is a no for me but that's just me.

The name isn’t to my taste but there’s nothing wrong with it, until the pronunciation became an issue. Nobody will naturally pronounce if the way you’ve instructed because it’s not one of the accepted pronunciations. It’s burdensome, imo, to set a child up for a lifetime of correcting people by giving them an established name with a non-standard pronunciation.