Neaveh

[Aubergines]

How on earth do you pronounce this name?

My friend has just used it for her first DD. She insists it's pronounced Neave (Niamh) but the letters don't make that sound.

Loop! Spelt it erong in thread title. The name is Nevaeh (Heaven backwards).

At first glance I thought it was heaven spelt backwards.

I would just pronounce it the way your friend says.

oh it is heaven backwards. oh dear.

Sorry, clearly I am incapable of typing on this phone.

But yes, I agree, oh dear.

Any idea how to pronounce it?

regardless of the spelling/normal pronounciation you have to pronounce it the way your friend has told you as it is her child's name

shame she couldn't just use Niamh though

According to Wikipedia, the font of all knowledge, it can be pronounced na-vay or na-vay-a, so the Niamh pronounciation is incorrect, I think. It's heaven backwards, and become popular after Sonny Sandoval of the rock group P.O.D. named his daughter Nevaeh in 2000. It was then featured in the fall of that year on the television program MTV Cribs, and became very popular in the States.

So now you know!

Lordy I thought this name was one of them Urban Myffs

I wish it was one of those urban myths.

Another non-urban myth was the child I saw recently called Enaj.

OP- How on earth did you react?

Sadly not an urban myth.

Despite insisting on the Niamh pronouciation my friend us already referring to her as Baby Nev. This reminds me of the name Neville which I think would horrify her.

Enaj? How on earth do you pronounce that?

I reacted by saying how lovely and sweet. What else could I possibly do?

well done Aubergines, you obviously have more tact and diploma than me, when I met an ex colleague who told me his kinds were called Grey and Zeff I immediately went

I have tried to improve with age but I blame it on a very expressive face

Ne-VAY-ah. Sad but true.

Tell her she's to stop pronouncing it Niamh immediately!!!!!

Ne - veh - ah.

You know, like the hand cream!

The more I think about it the worse it seems.

Why spell hevean backwards? It's like spelling god backwards. It's almost devil worship like.

But I might get over the devil worshipping association if the backward spelling made a lovely sound. Then there would be a reason. But it doesn't even make a recognisable sound let alone a nice one. And the shortening is ugly too.

Such an odd choice.

Well, Heaven would be more of a stripper name, so you get around that by spelling it backwards.

How about egdeh. That's 'hedge' backwards. As in 'pulled through a'.

Bloody silly.

i would say Neev-ah. And bleuurgh!! or Hgruuelb!

I looked after a Neveah at work and her mum pronounced it ner-VAY-a. Neveah was taken into care (not cos of the name!)

"Why spell hevean backwards? It's like spelling god backwards."

PMSL Yes DOG would be a really stupid name.

Fraid I just pronounced it Never when I saw your original post. Which is what I think of it as a name.