Can we get away with Dewi?

[JacobsPrincess]

Really stuck on boys names for DS2. DH & I like Theo (or Teddy) and Evan but are not sure and we both keep coming back to Dewi, pronounced Dow-ee (Dow, rhyming with cow!). It's a Welsh name, nickname for David. We dislike David as a name BTW.
My DH is Welsh, and I'm English but have lived in Wales and studied the language. We live in Hastings and don't plan on returning to Wales anytime soon. Our reservation with Dewi is that he'll spend his life being called Dewey and correcting people!
And the name has to fit with DS1, Jacob.
What do you think?

Makes me think of libraries!

I'm sorry but as a non welsh person the very first thing I thought of was

Huey, Dewey, and Louie.......

i would say go for it
i am a great believer in going for it with names
he can easily correct mispronunciations without too much grief

its beautiful btw

Same here faq. In fact I came on this thread to make the same comment and you'd beaten me to it!

OP - you might think its pronounced Dowee but the world will say Dyooweee. Why not call him Dai which is the proper Welsh for David?

Theo, Evan and Dai. Sounds quite nice.

Theo, Evan and dyoowee.

Ooops sorry not reading properly I though you had two other ds's called Theo and Evan durrrrrrrrr

Why give a child a name he will spend his life correcting people?

Jacob and Dai.
Jacob and Evan
Jacob and Theo

Jacob and jyoowee. When said together sounds like two names beginning with J.

jacobsprincess yes do. most people are happy to learn about pronunciations, it isn't the problem always made out here.

I think that as your DH is Welsh, then you can get away with Dewi. It would be a bit strange otherwise. It sounds lovely.

I have to say, it did remind me of Dewey Decimal System.

And he is always going to correct the pronounciation, there are going to be some folk who will never get the hang of it (DD has an unusual name so I know what this is like)

Saying that, DD said to me recently that she is glad that she has an unusual name and is not another Sophie like so many other girls in her kindergarten.

The point of this rambling mess of a post is, if you are happy with it then go for it.

Same as FAQ... Huey, Dewey and Louie... Bruce Dern film wasn't it? Sci Fi thing.

I knew a lovely little boy called Dewi; sadly he was very ill & died at the age of 8, so it has sa associations for me, but I think it's a lovely name & I don't remember it causing a lot of problems with the pronunciation.

NOOOOOOOOO! Huey, Dewey and Louie - the disney ducks!

NO!!!

btw - the NOOOOOOO! was to themoon66

Disney ducks??? I thought it was the three cute little robots who tended the gardens when earth had died. Gardens floating through space with the remnents of flora and fauna.

Will try to find link if nobody knows what the hell I'm on about.

maybe someone used the names later -but they were definitely originally Disney characters!

No, don't do it.

i was right about the names

Fab film and ripe for a revival given the current ecological worries.

ahhh - but Disney still got there first

Still not a good baby name though.. its a duck or a droid. Great.

PMSL moon

droids to save the earth

Cat64 is spot on with her pronounciation explaination. I can't think of anything in English that rhymes with it though plenty in Welsh. It is definitely not 'Dewey' of 'Dowey' (sorry OP) in Welsh.

If I'd have had a boy I was arguing with DP to call him Dewey. It's a gorgeous name but he will have to explain how to say it a few times and it's not said like that it's dehwey.

My little girl is aaliyah and we have to keep telling people how to say it but I don't care cos I love it.

LuckySalem, if you spell it Dewey it is Dyoo-ee.

I (with my poor S Welsh) would say Deh-wi for Dewi rather than Dow-i

Evan is good too.

Didn't mean to put the y on the end. (Is that one of the freudian slips, lol)