Welsh Name Pronounciation help please - Efa

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My Welsh friend has just named her baby girl Efa.

How is this pronounced please?

I went to uni in Wales and seem to think that one "f" i spronounced "v", so I want to pronounce it Eva? Is that right? or Ee-pha? Or something else?

similar to air-va

If you say Eva you'll be fine. Ee-pha sounds the same as Eva when I say it?! Maybe the two words sound the same in a Welsh accent.

No, they sound quite different in Welsh!

Efa is pronounce Eh-va.

DifferentID's Air-va is pretty close too

Not to me they don't. Our Eva from a Welsh speaking family is said eee-pha

I agree with pontynan - the 'e' should be like the elephant not as in evening. The singular 'f' in Welsh is pronounced 'v'.

You are right in that a single 'f' has a 'v' sound. From my contact with the name it is not pronounce Eva (as in Eva Gabor, Eva Longoria...sorry, don't know the correct spelling of the surnames), but more like Eh-va - some English speaking people choose to spell it Ever.

Wow! An answer very nearly a year later!