how would you pronounce this name?

[littlemissm]

My friend is 31 weeeks with dd2 & has picked a name a lovely name but i said maybe she should re think the spelling as she might be forever telling people how to pronounce it. The name is Heaven spelt backwards Nevaeh it is to me looking at it it looks like Nevah but it is actually pronounced NEV A AH Would you look at the spelling & no how to pronounce it?

Never heard this before. But why would anyone want to spell heaven backwards?

How about nede? esidarap? legna? This is so much fun! A whole new world of baby names has just opened up for me [helpful emoticon] - evol?

Heaven backwards - Hell?

How about Neva, a very pretty name pronounced Nee-vaa

How about Neve (like the actress?)? It's 'even spelled backwards, innit!

Why spell Heaven backwards?

Surely you might as well just name your child Hell

Niamh - Hmaih

It could work...

Sedah?

Muinomednap?

Onrefni?

Dlrowrednu?

Stupid name FFS! Call her heaven.

hades

pandemonium

inferno

underworld

lufhgiled lla

I'd think they didn't know how to spell Niamh properly. Poor child will be forever explaining (how sad her parents were !) and spelling out - hope they give her a sensible middle name as an option to use instead

Whatevah?

Nev-AAA-ah.

This name should be banned.

Agree with banning this 'name' - it is ridiculous!

I have a fairly unusual name and one which is quite easy to mispronounce - my dad is from overseas and in his motherland this name is still fairly uncommon but still very pronouncable by all). Needless to say I have spent more effort than I would have liked in correcting people and explaining where my name comes from.

My kids have got straightforward names of which there is no chance for them to be mispronounced.

Don't get me wrong, I really like my name, but I would not put a child through having an even more unusual name than mine, namely Heaven backwards. Think of the child for goodness sake!

I first read this as Haven backwards

i would prob mis-pronounce as 'Never', never, ever...

Sounds like Nivea. Vile.

Anyone else amused to note that this has made discussions of the day... only spelled wrong

Apparently MNHQ think that heaven spelled backwards is neaveh.

I think I can feel a song coming on...

[hums] Nevaeh, I'm in nevaeh, and my traeh beats so that I can hardly spell...
and I'd like to find some ssenippah as well...
but I can't work out whether neveah equals hell.

lolol tyv

I think the message here is quite clear: Never Say Nevaeh Again..

I would pronouce it 'Nev-ay-ah'

sadly I just spoiled my snobbery by spelling nevaeh wrong in my own song.

Oh well. I'll try to pretend I meant it like that and the whole thing is post-ironic. Or summat.

Working in a school, I would like to add ... Tell them, please don't!! Whats wrong with normal names? every foundation stage that arrives, we have one or two children that we haven't a clue how to say their names. The poor child will go through life constantly spelling it out for people. I can't understand the concept of spelling a word backwards for a name anyway?

My daughter was once instructed by a teacher she didn't like to write a story about an evil fairy. She called the fairy Enilorac, made her wear far too much eye makeup and have an obsession with collecting shoes. It didn't take her teacher long to work out who Enilorac was (not very loosely) based on.

In fairness, my daughter was 8 at the time.

I agree with whoever said why on earth do people not just be brazen about it and call their child Heaven. It's not like people won't know or work it out the other way round, yet you condemn the person to a lifetime of spelling out her name and telling people how to pronounce it.