Boy names ending in schwa

[Algor1thm]

A bit stuck naming our little boy. I've come to the conclusion that we love boy names that end in an 'uh' schwa sound... we have a standard British English accent with 'r' sounds not produced at the end of words, so that would generally be names ending in er/ar/ir but also a/ah, for example names we like include:

Caspar
Asher
Leander
Judah
Micah
Archer
Wilbur
Ezra

(These names all end in the same sound for us, which I know might not be the same for other accents)

We wouldn't go for anything top 100 popular and open to more unusual suggestions. Please help 🙏🏻

Jasper.

Joshua

Joschwa?

😂😂

Lots Biblical names in that category! Off the top of my head, Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeconiah. Depending on your accent, "-or" names like Hector might also fit.

Jonah

Joshua
Jonah
Luca
Fletcher

But they'll all end up shortened most likely anyway!

Hunter
Taylor
Parker
Carter

• many other names like that

Josiah
Isaiah
Ezra
Asa
Zachariah

I was looking for names ending as you suggest and found this. I'm not trying to derail your thread, I just felt I had to bring it to the attention of a wider audience!

IT IS REAL. You wonder what his parents were thinking, (although it was 1893)!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankard_Pooser

😂😂

Lysander
Hector
Alastair
Christopher
Jedediah
Obadiah
Xavier

Asher is my favourite.

It is worth considering that lots of people will pronounce the endings of these names differently to you. So if it would bother you that people pronounce the ending of Lysander differently, it’s worth considering that.

Benoit

Not getting the 'schw' in these, other than Joshwa.

Ezra has to be top 100 by now surely? I feel like every boy I’ve heard of being born in the last 2-3 years has that name.

Sawyer
Archer
River
Xavier
Spencer
Wilbur
Walter

I've got a little Leander, it gets a lot of compliments. It's relatively common in the country DH is from, but a lot of people in the UK haven't heard of it.

Because they don't know it, I think it's fairly frequently assumed to end in A and be a girl's name. If that bothers you it might be something to bear in mind for any uncommon name ending in a schwa sound.

Do you live somewhere where most other people have the same accent as you?

Yeah it is, it's a name we like a lot but wouldn't use because of its recent popularity. Love River 😊

Yes the regional accent here is non-rhotic

Me either, exactly how Rachel in Friends pronounces it too ha.

Schwa is just the name of a sound (upside-down e in the phonetic alphabet). It's the non-stressed ''uh'' sound in loads of words (the final a in America for example).

I'll leave it to the linguists then.

River is a nice name but it’s so uncommon you might get people asking if you named him after River Phoenix, at least in the 40+ age group. It was the first thought in my head.

Whatever you choose, I’d strongly suggest googling ‘nicknames for [X]’ (or asking on here). Make sure you can live with your most disliked nickname because that’s what he’ll probably end up with at school. 🙄

Joshua
Arthur
Xander
Walter
Peter
Christopher