Is Sian too old lady?

[Greendaisydays]

I love Sian but hear it’s old lady in Wales?

Still like Siriol but people don’t seem keen. Others being considered

Rhedyn
Cadi
Nia
Heulwen
Manon

Ela will be middle name probably though we considered Medi

Sian is lovely. It is pronounced Shaaaaan where I live. I have never heard Sharn.

Nia is very middle aged to my mind. Heulwen is old lady.

Rhedyn is RHEDD-in

RH is like saying R and H at exactly the same time. It's not R or R-h, and it's one letter not two. Not a name and will sound like Reddin (Reading) in some accents.

It's very Karen/Debbie/Sharon for me, being from Wales it's a name more of my friends' mums have rather than many of my generation and I know zero babies with the name.

Who on earth pronounces it Sai-Ann?! That's just wrong! Like deciding to pronounce Jane Jan-Eh!

@name7852

Who on earth pronounces it Sai-Ann?! That's just wrong! Like deciding to pronounce Jane Jan-Eh!

She was quite put out when I pronounced her name Sharn, like she’d never been called it before. I’ve only ever heard it pronounced that way.

Heulwen will get mangled.
The eu doesn't have an equivalent sound in English
it's sort of Heh-ill but one syllable, sort of half-way between hell and hill.

I think Sharn sounds okay too. I would ;pronounce it more Shaaahn but its not really that different I don't think as I think to non-welsh ears it sounds like you are saying Shaaarn anyway.

@KirstenBlest I know a Rhedyn she's from North Wales. But I did think at first she was trying to say you was from Reading!

Rhedyn seems an odd choice. It doesn't sound attractive. Celyn is another one. Just don't get why someone would use it as a name.

@name7852 - about 10 years ago I had a temp job where I was instructed to go and find 'Sigh-Anne'. I went round the desks 3 times but saw no name plate which looked remotely like a name which would be pronounced Sigh-Anne.

So I went back to my desk and asked my colleague to spell it. I then realised they were butchering the name Sian. When I approached Sian and pronounced her name correctly she was very surprised, especially as I'm English - she said she had just given up correcting people. She was one of the only people in that office who pronounced my Welsh name correctly - I had also given up correcting people.

I have had similar experiences in other offices with Angharad, Geraint and Hefin.

OP - I really like Nia from your list. I know a lovely Nia who is about 30 so it doesn't feel middle aged to me. I know Sians of a variety of ages from 20s - late 50s, so again it feels reasonably timeless to me.

Manon is lovely!