Saul

[KaleidoscopeDAN]

Thoughts on Saul for a boy? We'd be pronouncing it like Paul but with an S. I do not like the sah-ool pronunciation.

I like the name but you are setting the kid up for a lifetime of mispronunciation as how you are suggesting is not how it’s commonly pronounced.

Rhyming with Paul is the English pronunciation. Sah-ool is the Spanish pronunciation. Your preferred pronunciation with be fine, OP (unless you live in Spain).

Surely how OP plans to say it is the normal way? I have never heard it pronounced any other way.

No one is called Saul. Even Saul wasn't called Saul for long.

It is nice and fairly uncommon. Do you realise it’s biblical meaning? Look up King Saul and Paul the Apostle if not.

I love it and if I didn’t have a mild lisp DS
would have been called it. And I can’t imagine anyone pronouncing it other than like Paul.

I like it. Also like Sol short for Solomon

🔝This. King Saul is a shady character, disobeying god after being elevated to first King of Israel by God. And Saul the Apostle changed his name to Paul to demonstrate a change in character- Saul prosecuted early Christmas while Paul became a missionary.

I hope you are not serious!

I like it. Saul is much fresher than Paul, as all of the Pauls that I know are at least 30 years old. (To be clear, I do like Paul. It was just very common for many years.) What a difference one letter can make!

Saul does rhyme with Paul in English.

I quite like it
Only ever heard it pronounced to rhyme with Paul in English

Yes. Overall, Saul = villain.

but each to their own!

Saul is pronounced like Paul in the UK - do you want to name your child after a baddy? just call him Paul instead

It's fine until you say 'our Saul'

Saul Eslake is very prominent down our way. You can Google him.

I taught a Saul once (rhymed with Paul) and he was a really lovely lad so I have only positive connotations.

I love it.

Fine as long as your surname isn't Goodman.

Better call …

It's fine until you say 'our Saul'

Fine as long as your surname isn't Goodman.

I don't know where you live, but, like everyone else on this thread, I've never heard Saul pronounced any way other than to rhyme with Paul.

I quite like it @KaleidoscopeDAN

Saul became Paul.
You won't find many Paul's in today's classes.

I like the sound, but would assume you didn't know of Saul/Paul and that when he was Saul he was quite the baddie.

It's like calling your child Cain or Delilah... Just not great connotations.

Saul Junction. https://www.saulmarina.co.uk/

I don't think that true? The only Sauls I've known have been Mexican, so I am more familiar with the Sa-ool pronunciation, but it's well-known that it rhymes with Paul in English.

I don't like the name- meanings or historical/biblical namesakes don't bother me at all, I just don't like the sound (I don't like Paul either). But if you like it OP, I wouldn't be put off by the biblical character, there are plenty of Delilahs etc.