How would you pronounce this name?

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Ivo

I’d expect it in England (used to live near the St. Ivo school mentioned earlier). In Wales I’d be a bit surprised and quite disappointed.

It's not Ee-van, it's YV-ann. Ifor is YV-ohr.

Ee -vo here to ( Welsh speaking area)

Eye- vo. Was on our list for a boy

Yes same here, also Welsh.

Remember this guy from Taskmaster? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Graham

He’s English and pronounces it Eye Voh.

In Welsh Y is pronounced uh. And no the name isn’t pronounced uhv-an. I, or ‘ee dot’ as it’s known, is pronounced with an Ee sound. (Welsh speaker who lived in west wales for 19 years and now lives in South East Wales).

@cardibach , I said YV-ann. YV like on Yvette or Yvonne.

If I wanted to describe how to say it in Welsh, I'd have said it's pronounced Ifan.

Me too!
Edit. I see what you mean about Yvonne. But it’s exactly the same as Ee-von - I didn’t indicate stress, just vowel sound. I agree it’s EE-van for Ifan.

I don't know anyone who says Yvonne as Ee-von. I know someone who says Elaine as Ee-lane and it sounds like a sort of road. For e-bikes maybe?

I would pronounce Yvonne as either Ee - von or eh-von.

Eye voe

I don't know anyone who says Yvonne as Ee-von.

I say Ee-von!

I've never heard Eye-von?!

Yvonne is ih-von to me. Not Ee and not Eye. Sometimes it’s even yiv! Yiv-on. I knew a mum and daughter called Yvonne and Yvette once. Also know a Ysanne.

Eye-vo (rhymes with a live a live oh)

Or ee-vo if eastern European as others have said

Yes this

Eye Voh

Eye as in 👀
Vo to rhyme with toe; like the beginning of vote.

I think it’s mainly that we are using a combination of the Welsh and English alphabet to explain how we would say it! We are probably all saying the same thing but spelling it differently!

With the ee-van, the name Ifan doesn't sound like Ee Van. The stress is on the If part, so the pattern is like in Evan, not Eve-Anne or Ee-van.

Some people just don't get it, so we say 'Just call him Evan' as it's less bad than him being called Eve-Anne.