‘My husband wants to name our baby an Irish name - but nobody can pronounce it'

A woman named her son a traditional Irish name , not knowing it would lead to controversies anytime someone tried to pronounce it .

She turned to Reddit to explain the situation. Her son is named Tadhg , pronounced like “Tye-Gh.” She said it’s similar to the word “tiger” without the -er at the end.

The name is Irish. She said her husband is of Irish descent , and wanted to honor that with their son’s name.

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She wrote: “It’s really the Irish version of ‘Tim’ but the spelling/pronunciation THROWS people. We were not able to agree on anything up until we were about to leave the hospital.”

The name means philosopher or storyteller. She tried to convince her husband to at least change the spelling of the name to make it easier for people to pronounce.

“I love the name, Tadhg. It sounds elegant and esteemed to me. My concern is solely in the difficulty my son will face in life with his peers. We are in the US so of course phonically it does not make ‘sense’ to a large majority.”

In the comments, people responded saying he will likely be correcting pronunciation his whole life. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though.

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One person said: “I have a traditionally Scandinavian name that is very uncommon in the US and I’ve been correcting people’s pronunciation my whole life. It’s super rare for anyone to pronounce it correctly before I correct them, like only a handful of people have ever gotten it right the first time my whole life.

“It’s not a big deal, I don’t care. I love my name way more than I care that it’s never pronounced correctly at first. It’s not awkward or weird, and people remember me and my name more than I remember them!”

The woman asked if the name was a tragedeigh, which is a “typical” name that uses unusual spelling. People assured her it wasn’t, as it is a traditional Irish name.

A user wrote: “You almost saddled him a tragedeigh by messing with the spelling, but your husband was right to keep the traditional spelling.”

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