I want to use the old Irish spelling Fáelán if I can as it would be a reference to mythology.
This name is for a dog, so its low stakes, but I also don't want to appropriate the name too much as Im british. I compete regularly with my dogs so the name will be a bit more public than it would be for just a pet and I don't want to confuse any of my irish friends.

However, I see conflicting information on how this particular spelling is pronounced.

- Figh-lan (as in fire or fight)
- Fway-Lawn (the one I see for the modern spelling Faolán a lot)
- Fay-lan (anglicised version)

For me, I would prefer to pronounce it Fay-lan, as Fway-lawn would be difficult to say 20 times a day, and no one else will be able to spell or pronounce it (Fway-lan is a little easier to pronounce though), and figh-lan doesn't sound as nice to me.
But I dont know if the pronounciation would be too off.

But I don't want to get the name horribly wrong and confuse people.

Our top girls name is Colette, and our other kids are C names. I LOVE the nickname Letti! However, we go to a smallish church with a young kiddo named Colette. Her kids all have great names! We aren't necessarily close, but see them weekly and go to birthday parties. Would you be upset if someone familiar, but not necessarily friends used your kids name? Should I ask her first, Or am I way overthinking this? Thanks!!

My first name is fairly common where I am from, I was wondering how it sounds to people from other countries.

She's not due for a couple of more months but has been going around telling all of our extended family that she's naming her baby the same name as my 4 year old son. My sons name is not a common name, and I would say it's very rare. Another cousin told me that she knows that I'm upset and angry about it, but she's still not going to change her mind. Am I being over dramatic if I decide to cut her off for this? I wouldn't mind if it was a big age gap or even if we didn't see each other that often.

Hello, we are expecting our second son early next year. Where I live, we have to submit the baby’s name before they are born so we need to have the name chosen and official before we will meet him to see what he looks likes

I am English, we live in Czech. Our first son is Frantisek (pronounced ‘franti-shek’. He goes by franti / franki)

We cannot agree on a name for our second. Ideally it needs to work in English and Czech to the extent that the pronunciation of it doesn’t change much.

We both love George but it won’t work where we live because of how it would be pronounced here. Same with Jakub - it would be pronounced Jacob for my family but here it is ‘yak-ub’ which I just don’t like.

Frederik is also a contender but I feel like Frankie and Freddie are too close ? My partner also isn’t very keen

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I love classic boys names, but a lot of the Czech names I just can’t work get onboard with.

What are some names that are well-established in multiple languages/cultures (especially in European languages)?

An interesting thing I noticed is that some english names are only used in certain countries (e.g. Imogens are mostly from UK, Averys are mostly from US, Zélies are likely French), and some names could even be problematic in another languages (e.g. Viola in Spanish means "rape" or "violate").

There are also names that are more internationally used like Alexandra, Isabel, Elise, Julia, Anna, etc... Looking for more names like that! Does not need to be pronounced or spelt exactly the same in all the languages

P.S. I have found a fabulous website called mixedname.com (supposing made by one of the fellow redditizen?) that shows the usage of names. However we weren't sure how established were those names in real life and what would suit a young girl well.

Any thoughts or recommendation?

They are microscopic, highly intelligent creatures, and their universe is very small, but their technology is so advanced that things like going into subspace and traveling across the universe are very easy for them to do. But for some unknown reason, the universe in which they existed was destroyed, most of them died, and the few that remained escaped to Earth, found a host and settled in his hair (they were symbiotic). Because they're tiny, and the earth is rich in energy for them, even head oil is a very valuable resource for them, so slowly their species flourished, and they built cities in the hair of that host, and they also provided shelter for that host, and they used their technology to make some kind of clothing for that host, It can modify the body structure (or molecular composition?) of its host.

I once wanted to call it micro or microbiota, but that doesn't reflect its mystery and high intelligence. I hope there is a more innovative word, or a madeup word( etymologically ）

I am open to any ideas!! Also thanks for your reading and helping

I’ve heard some shocking pronunciations of my sisters name Aisling and find it confusing as I didn’t think it was an uncommon name or difficult to pronounce (grew up in Ireland, studied in London which is where all the problems with her name seemed to begin haha). Even had someone look at the spelling and say they weren’t even going to attempt pronouncing it and they would just call her A. Very rude lol but I feel like Irish names get mocked a lot!

Edit to add my name is Taylah, seeing as a few comments have already suggested Taylor.

We’re due to have another girl and are stumped on a name this time around. My firstborn daughter is named Jordyn.

Surname begins with an R, so no first names starting with R.

I love gender neutral, although not 100% set on them, and have a thing for 2 syllable first names.

Please send suggestions our way!

Which name do you prefer? Nicknames: Caro for Caroline & Georgie, George or Gee for Georgina.

Babys first name will be Sophia, last name will be Ross. I don’t like the middle name Grace and I’m more so leaning towards her middle name being Jane.

Sophia Jane Ross

Any other suggestions out there? Could definitely use other options as I’m not 100% certain on this.

This is a really weird recommendation but you get the idea.

what are your thoughts on the name coraline?

List of names from horse riding class. Mostly tweens but a few up to 15ish yo. Anything surprising or pleasing?

Amani, Aria, Audrey

Charlie, Chloe

Daisy, Dita

Ella

Francesca

Georgia

Imogen, Iva

Jemima, Jemma

Kirrily

Larissa, Lea, Lillian

Marta, Michelle

Olivia

Raven, Robyn, Rose

Sally, Selena, Sophia, Sophie

Violet

Zoe

I plan to decorate the farm with a very rich mansion looking mod and build an ancient wine empire.

Needs to be a name that will make Elliot absolutely swoon over me.

I plan on going for the deep brown hair and beard look but not ugly like Shane.

Hopefully nothing too silly as I have to see my name pop up on the screen enough times that it can't take me out of the experience. I would like a male name that oozes class.

Which do you prefer?

Anyone got any cool medieval names that could still be used today??

Personally Audric and Elowen have been hitting hard.

Hi so I’m due in a little over a week and his first name is set. Sunny. I know I know “it’s the female spelling” “it’s a nickname not a name” we don’t care. Sunny is it for us. But where we’re stuck is the middle name. For months we loved sunny jude. But now we’re second guessing ourselves. Is jude terrible? We also considered

• Sunny Emilio (family name)
• Sunny Theodore or Theo
• Sunny James (family name)

I keep coming back to sunny jude but then it’s not hitting JUST right with me. It’s missing something. Help pls!!

So far we are liking Sloan and Eryx. Heavily leaning towards Eryx We don’t like super generic names but also nothing too out there. I just want to add that she doesn’t want a middle name and mine will start with a J

Any suggestions welcomed!

what are boy names with a kind of sound you don’t hear that often?

Any fans of this name, I didn't know this was my first name until maybe middle school, and still 21 years later my mom refuses to call me this name, is this name that hated or is it just her?

Gender neutral names have gotten very common in recent years, but I'm looking for something that isn't currently trending too hard. Maybe something a little older? Also interested in names uncommon for either gender, such as Taylor for a boy instead of a girl.

I've previously asked for names that start with R, but I'm also curious about A names, or other vowels - and any other letter! Preference for shorter names. Thanks in advance!

I picked out the baby name Sabrina a few years ago but now that Sabrina Carpenter is more famous I kinda don’t like it as much…could you all think of alternatives that are similar? Thanks!

I’m pretty sure asking for a list of names is allowed? I need names for characters and was just wondering if anyone had names that they really wanted to see more.

We had a baby boy on Friday and didn’t have a name picked out but had a list. We were discussing names Friday night and one kept coming up but we didn’t definitively choose it yet. A family friend had a baby boy on Friday too but I told everyone not to tell us the name as we didn’t want to know as to not be influenced. Well, my mother let it slip and it just so happened to be the same name!! It is not a common name either. Now we don’t know what to do. We feel that it fits our son but don’t want the negative connotations going with it like we stole the name. We don’t see this person much at all, but our mothers are close friends. What would you do?? Name him the same name or try and come up with a different name? HELP!

Could be a name and then the same name (or the same meaning) in another language, two names with the same meaning, etc.

I’ll start.

I knew a Mariah Marie, a Heather Erica, a Rose Gardner, and a Daisy Flores, and I once saw an obituary where the decedent’s first and middle name was Catherine Kate.

ETA: Watching Forensic Files rn and this officer being interviewed has the name David Davis. 😭

Hey everyone. This one is a bit weird. I came across a name which sounds like visqual, vascual, vazquel, or something similar. It definitely has those consonants.

Does that name sound familiar to anything you guys have heard of in the past? It may be a European name? Any information would be helpful. (I realize it sounds like Vasquez or other similar spelling and that's not it)

We want to name our next boy with the name that sounds like “Bow-Din” but are debating different spellings.

We lean towards: Bodin or Boden with nicknames being “Bo and/or Bodi/Bodie (typically spelled Bodhi)

Wanting to see other opinions on how to spell this name.

Please help! My boyfriend and I cannot agree on a name to save our life. We’re having a daughter with the last name Bruner. Any suggestions? I feel like we’ve gone through every name in the dang book.

My husband and I are trying and I thought I would ask way in advance about some names.

TLDR : French names easy to pronounce in English or other languages ?

Context : We both are French (from France) living in anglophone Canada. We joined our last names so it's already quite a mouthfull, so a simple first name wouldn't hurt.
Both our first names are very common in France, but pronouncing them in English, not so much.
So I want names for our hopefully future kid to be somewhat easy in an international context.
So I would appreciate if you could tell me if you find any names I'll put below difficult to pronounce and why, or not (and potentially how do you think they are pronounced) =)

For boys I have : Valentin, Mael, Robin, Ronan, Erwan, Mathieu
For girls : Juliette, Emma, Valentine, Rose, Lily, Maeva

I don't mind a slight "englishifying" of the name, ie Juliet or Mathew, but I wouldn't want people struggling either.
For example my name is Maud (rhymes with Claude), and everyone so far has called me Ma-ood here.

If you have any other suggestions, I'm all ears, my favour goes to either older/classic French names or Celtic/Brittonic names (we both have ancestors from Bretagne).