How would you pronounce this girl’s name?

[Babynamessss]

Due our third girl in January and a name that was on our original list from #1 has came back round…Blythe. We both really like it and were almost decided on it until I mentioned it to my sister in law (I know, you shouldn’t). I had text it to her but when I saw her she was saying it but she was saying it differently to how I would. I didn’t say anything but I’ve since looked it up and it seems there are two ways to pronounce it and both are used, no one seems to know which is right.

How would you say Blythe?
Option 1: the ending sounds like the ‘the’ in bathe
Option 2: the ending sounds like the ‘the’ in bath?

Sorry no easier way of explaining 😆

To rhyme with "scythe"

I don't understand the difference between the two options, but agree with pp that I'd rhyme it with blithe, writhe, tithe etc.

Imagining your last name is Smyth now.

Option 1.

Can’t really understand your options OP abut I would pronounce it to rhyme with scythe. Like the actress Blythe Danner

I don’t understand the options, the th sound at the end of bathe and bath sound the same to me, it’s only the a vowel sound that is different?

@Ilikeyourdecor See if it helps to say these out loud so you can hear the difference between the sounds:

First option = ‘those’ or ‘that’
Second option = ‘thing’ or ‘thesis’

Option 1

Option 1. Lovely name.

Blythe like writhe

It's Blythe to rhyme with Jive.

Lovely name BTW.

As in ‘the’ to rhyme with five.

Yes writhe! That’s a better example.

Option 1, the other way is just odd.

Option 1.
Option 2 doesn’t sound right at all.

As with everyone else - Blythe rhymes with writhe. I knew someone named that - absolutely lovely name.

Option 1. I know one and I don't think she's had any pronunciation issues. I like it.

This is the clearest and most accurate explanation!

Then it would be Blive surely, or Blyve? It doesn't rhyme with Jive those the I sound is the same.

Option 1 is the only way

*though not those

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Okay so it seems option 1 is definitely the majority but accents do make a difference to it. It’s when it’s quite an unusual name that I just worry it might be one of those ones where she’d have to keep telling people how it’s said but after reading your responses maybe not 😊 Thanks for the nice replies too.. expected it might be ripped to shreds on here 🤣

I would definitely go 1. To me I think of Gilbert Blythe in Anne of Green Gables or the town in Northumberland. Never heard it pronounced with an unvoiced 'th'

@Babynamessss it's a gorgeous name and quite a traditional one at that. Well it is where I stay anyway. Lovely choice.

very good
that advert varies depending in where you are in the country though!