Taliesin - can I use it?

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Always loved this name. I didn't go through with it for my first because of my family's opinions on it, but I'm due next spring with my third and last baby and would really love to use it if it's a boy.

The only issue is, I'm not Welsh, but I do have Welsh heritage, and my surname also starts with T (two syllables, ends in ie sound and has an S in there).

Was about to say the same. It’s a lovely name.
Pronounce Tally-essin

Tally-essin It's 3 syllables not 4. Tal-yes-in.

Like Iestyn (YES-tin) is 2 syllables.

I'm Welsh - it's the name of the Chief Bard and referenced in the Mabinogion.

It's not a hard Welsh word to pronounce really, but even if it were, if you like it and you understand the roots then go for it.

Wynne Evans' son is called Taliesin I believe - I know of two other boys with the same name, but it's their middle name.

Three syllable pronunciation in Welsh - stress on the second syllable. Tal-YES-in but with certain Welsh accents there is a lilt that can sometimes sound as if it is extending the vowels.

There is no z sound is Welsh, and no, it’s not the other name for Merlin !

I live in Yorkshire - there is a little boy at my kids nursery with this name. It’s lovely and he gets called Tali

Agree! I do wonder where this nonsense comes from sometimes! I do kind of get the pronunciation angle because people with accents from other countries try and speak Welsh, and that's fair enough isn't it. Much like when French people speak English and put 'z's into words!

It's not the 'other name' for Merlin - there is no other name for Merlin, unless you use the Welsh which is Myrddin. Rwy'n colli fy nhymer...!

It's a boy's name so yes, for a girl, it would get some comments.

No, Tal - yessin.

It’s a beautiful name. Go for it!

That’s wrong. You’re missing the middle e sound.

Tal yes sin , kind of my point really.

I'm a Welsh speaker and it sounds like you're not. I'm not wrong.
It's two syllables. Tal - yessin.

neither am I

It's 3 syllables @Gwenhwyfar .

1. Tal
2. Yess
3. in

Yes, you're correct. It's 3 syllables.

What is wrong is "Tally-essin" suggested above.

We are in England and used a Welsh name (some distant Welsh ancestors but tbh we just really liked the name...and Wales!) - it's a pretty easy one to pronounce and we've only had positive reactions to it.

I do remember some Welsh MNers being very cross at the time though, when I asked for thoughts.

Beautiful name and a real one as well!

Yes, cancel what I wrote there.

Well they're not on this thread are they?

With emphasis on the middle syllable

100%.

I still can't work out if it's Tally essin or Tal yes in.

I'd give it a miss personally, it doesn't help that whenever I see it all I see is Tailspin.

I know someone called Taliesin and he’s lovely. We shorten it to Tal but Tally is short for a girl.

Tal-YES-sin. Three syllables.

Tally, is how I say it.

@MoreRabbit , I mind but it's when the name gets anglicised. A lot of the names aren't easy to pronounce, and they can sound ugly to Welsh-speakers.

@Tanya285 , Tal yes in not Tally essin.
The ies bit is exactly like the ies in Iestyn.