Ann-Harrod

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I used to work with a lady who gave her daughter this name. Had never hear it before, or since, and always wondered if she'd just made it up to try to sound "posh"

Anyone ever come across this before?

OMG I knew a kid at a Steiner kindergarten called Jackamo! The place was chocka with bizarrely named kids though so it didn't really stand out.

This was in the early eighties, when people generally used "real names" for their kids. Very unusual at the time to come across something like that. That's why it's stuck in my mind for so long.

Oh yes, Rudolph Steiner schools. We had one of those in our village when i was young. I think there was a lot of suspicion amongst our parents towards that school. We were discouraged from having anything to do with the kids who went there. It didn't seem fair as they always seemed really polite and nice.

again, nothing unusual. This is a european version of Jacob. To an italian or Spanish person, Jacob probably sounds bizaare

I'm perfectly aware of the Italian name Giacomo, and wouldn't find that bizarre at all.

Spelling it Jackamo however, is...not quite the same thing.

it is just anglicising the spelling, we have been doing that to names for millenia

Italians would call their boy Giacomo. Not Jackamo.

Maybe she just spelled it wong?

But it’s already been anglicised from Hebrew, to Jacob?

@TheCatIsInCharge i know post partum brain fog is a thing, but if you can't remember how to spell your own child's name by the time they start school .......

It's a lovely name.

Ann. Harrod.

Ann-Harrod??? Like Harrods???

Hyacinth Bucket eat your heart out!!

and? Now the Italian version is being anglicised. I dont understand why anyone things this is strange or unusual, this is how we get names!

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It's Angharad, but it's not pronounced Ann-Harrod!

Jackamo just makes me think of that website that sells clothes for more amply-proportioned men - the one that used to advertise on the telly all the time with Johnny Vegas.

She might be related to the woman who had a baby on the same ward as me - she wanted to name her daughter after her mother, but didn't know how to spell Fiona, and started F-E-E-Y...

my friends pronounce it Ann Harrod

I think TheCat may have meant your colleague spelt it ‘wrong’ from the get-go. Heard Angharad, decided what a lovely name it would be for her baby, but thought it was spelt Ann-Harrod!

Edited for one ‘the’ too many!

my friends pronounce it Ann Harrod

Well they pronounce it wrong then.

For starters, Angharad has an -ad at the end and Harrod ends in -od.
Angharad also has a g in it.

Yes, exactly.

It is their name, they are pronoucing it right!

Because after a point it becomes ridiculous?

I think Jackamo was a clothing brand for fat men in the early 00’s, which makes it seem even less like a real name to me.

Reminds me of a post on here years ago where a poster complained that people kept mispronouncing her name, Sian (sorry the MN app won't let be do the circumflex over the a).

She was insistent that it was pronounced Cyan despite many people pointing out that it was a Welsh name pronounced Sharne (including from multiple other MN Sian's).

Even when given all the evidence she decided it was up to her how to pronounce it - which is fair enough - but couldn't accept the person actually mispronouncing her name was her (and her parents) and she should let go of the anger directed towards others for using the proper pronunciation 🤷‍♀️ or maybe consider changing it to Cyan if that's what she wanted to be known as.

It was cringeworthy tbh, though I'm debating if Ann-Harrod top trumps that....

You'd think when naming your child you'd do some basic due diligence on pronunciation especially if you're choosing something from a different language.

She’ll fit in okay with little Sigh Ann, whose mother said ‘It’s spelt s i a n but we’re pronouncing it the traditional way, sigh ann.’