Mabli

[sageandbasil]

Ive just had a baby girl called Mabli. Pronounced Mab-Lee. We live in England and a lot of people are pronouncing it May blee. I never thought this would be an issue. How would you pronounce it if you just saw it written down?

Exactly as you're saying it... May-blee seems odd to me!

Congrats on your new baby

Mab Lee when I saw the thread title

I haven’t heard the name before and would probably say May-blee as it’s just more similar to other girls names that I do know.

I thought Mab-lee when I saw the title too.
Congratulations on your little ones!

I would say May- blee
Congratulations x

That's odd of them. Maybe they're connecting it to words like "able" or something?

I would have said Mab-lee.

One, obviously!
People always get names with A in them wrong. My surname is one of those. It's perfectly simple but it gets made complicated quite often as it's a fairly unusual one

I wasn't sure how you'd pronounce it, tbh. I suppose my thinking would be it it has the 'may' sound in it like Mabel.

Obviously, if I'd heard you say it, I wouldn't go around still pronouncing it Mayblee.

Thanks for the replies. Even when we tell people they still pronounce it May-Blee it's so annoying. Poor girl she's going to have a life time of this.

It's not everyone just mostly family members 🙄

Ugh that’s a bit frustrating! Hopefully the family will eventually get it right. As for other people, you’ll just have get used to it I suppose 😬 People close to her will eventually always say it right (I hope anyway!)

I’d say it Mab-Lee

I'd have thought it was Mab-li (like Mably).

I’d always assumed it was Mab-lee & it’s a wonderful name :)
I would also wonder if they’re getting confused with Mabel somehow.

I'd probably say may-blee but I'm Scottish so maybe that makes a difference?

May blee here too. May be an accent thing.

I would say Mab-Lee but I already knew how to pronounce it.

I have a Welsh name in England which most people pronounce wrong. It annoys my mother but doesn't really bother me as it's my norm. The misspellings annoy me more as it's usually from people at work who can see how to spell it from my email address.

I value the heritage and tradition of my name far more highly than having a name which doesn't reflect that which people would get right every time and would never change it (sometimes people do suggest I change it to something English).

Mabli is a beautiful name OP.

Mab-lee. As far as I know, it's Welsh? And the Welsh language doesn't "do" an ay sound. All 'a' is pronounced like the a in cat and hat?
Beautiful name anyway.

I thought it was Mabel when I misread the title but would probably pronounce as you do.

May-blee. But they I initially read it as a yooneek spelling of Mabel.

Never heard it but I love it! I would say Mab-lee

I don't think it's that odd, unless you're actually Welsh or living in Wales. Are you? I wouldn't necessarily assume 'May-blee' but 'Mabli' is a short walk from 'Mabel' so that's why people are making that mistake. They're thinking it's a twist on 'Mabel'.

Honestly when I saw the title of this post, I thought it was Mabil and you were being quirky with the spelling of Mabel

Mah-blee. I teach one, and I have a Welsh background though. Lovely, lovely name.

I'm Welsh so Mab-lee. Once you've corrected everyone once it'll be fine. Congratulations op