Kyan

[Rosebud05]

Your thoughts as a possible boy's name, please. Pronounced to rhyme with Ryan. Also considering Kiron. (Like, but can't have Kieron as name of an ex.)

Kayhan is a Turkish name.

Kaylan could be a Turkish name (from the way it sounds & is written), but it isn't.

Because there is only one way to write Turkish words (phonetically) and all Turkish names mean something, it is quite impossible to bastardise them.

Who knows, maybe the Turkish diaspora in UK have started inventing their own names, in adaptation to their host culture

nancy66 I was joking! I also shot the name down in flames!

kyan to rhyme with ryan?

bit too unusual imo,
i like kian.. but do now know one, previously i wasnt so keen.

I personally don't think the name sounds remotely unusal or made up. It's a perfectly nice name that I've come across a few times in my nursery - three boys, two of which were of African descent, but in one case the spelling was slightly different.

I know a Kyan, pronounced key-ann.
I had assumed it was a Korean name, as he is 1/2 Korean.

I rally like Kier which was mentioned above

Well, Kyan is my son's name and lots of people have complimented us on how much they like it.

I kind of know what people mean about it sounding chavvy tbh as unusual boy's names often do. It definitely isn't a made up name though and is more common in some Asian countries and Africa. If DS had my (english) surname I probably wouldn't have considered it. However, he has his Dad's Iranian surname and so people assume that that Kyan is an Iranian name too (according to his Grandfather it is anyway).

Somebody once suggested that before you chose a name for a baby you ask yourself if you can imagine a prime minister, doctor or lawyer with that name (very snobby, I know!). Kyan with my surname, I would have said no but with his dad's surname I would say yes, after all Barack Obama is an unusual name.

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