Out of curiosity.

[nymphaemaia]

Well this is my first thread, and out of curiosity I wonder what you guys think of my sons name i guess.

His full name (bar his last name) Is:

Aneirin-Glyndwr. Dylan. Lloyd.
He's almost 8 months old now, and I shorten it to the clasic nickname for Aneirin as nye.
It's taken a little while for those around me to get there tongues round the pronounciation but thats probably because I live in England. I pronounce his name as A-Nye-rin Glin-dor. Dil-lan.

I love his name alot, and will be very interested in your responses.

I love the name Aneirin, i'm not Welsh though had heard of it because of Aneurin Bevin. They both seem to be pronouced the same despite the spelling or am I wrong about that?

Nye is cute too. Is his first name hyphenated or is Glyndwr a middle name?

I would struggle with that. I'd nick name him Lloyd if he were an adult.

I really like it, I love Welsh names but then I'm Irish and they are quite similar to a lot of Irish names. I do find that any time I have to ring England and give our Irish address here they struggle with what seem to me very basic sounds. The important thing is that you love it, but I know where you're coming from because my folks didn't like our name for ds who is 9 mths now, we went with a Latin name that is 2 thousand years old but was new to them. I think you have a really cute name there though.

I love Aneirin and the shortened version Nye. It's a name I consider as a middle name for a boy.

although, I'm not sure but you may be pronouncing it incorrectly. It should be Ann-neigh-rin in Wales.

and glin-doooor, ie not 'dor' as in 'door'

Seashore, Welsh is nothing like Irish! Scottish yes!

Very nice.

We considered Aneirin with the shorteneing of Nye for DS1 as DH is welsh.

In the end we just opted for welsh middle names, but I still like it.

My dd1 went to playgroup with a little boy called Nye - she insisted his name was Knife for ages! His mother just laughed. It's not a name I would have chosen as I don't have the Welsh connections so it wouldn't seem right. Very glad you've chosen a name you love though.

MaggieOO, I just mean there are certain low toned sounds as oppose to English which can be quite flat sounding, to me there is a similarity, and actually I would think of Scottish as much more high and low then Irish, I suppose I'm saying, to me, Welsh and Irish share a certain softness which can lead to some ears finding it hard to understand. So there!!

Yeah I think I understand!

Actually, I was thinking about it you're right, Irish is more like Scottish, so I owe you an apology MaggieOO, maybe I just have funny ears and a particular fondness for Welsh names! Sorry!

I have an Aneurin, shortened to Nye most of the time. So naturally I think it's marvellous.

On the welsh pronunciation... it depends which bit of Wales. My southern friends say 'An-eye-ur-in' or 'An-eye-ur-in', my midwales friends say 'An-yur-in' and my northern friends says 'An-neigh-rin'.

I use the southern pronunciation as that was the part of wales I called home for so long!

Or An-ey-ur-in, even.

I'd think he was welsh and I quite like Nye.

I love Dewi. And Iolo. And Ianto. But DH keeps pointing out we're not actually welsh...

Not my cup of cha but each to their own.