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the Midwest is a pretty huge chunk of land with a decent amount of people for you to just dismiss out of hand. superior much?

I went to hs in the early 90s and these things were true then. everyone had or wanted a boyfriend, freshmen were having sex, we all did our hair and makeup and ran out the door as the bus pulled up, and we dealt with a lot of adult situations we shouldn't have. Date rape, drugs, abusive… Read More

In the original Irish, Si or Se sound like Sh does in English, which makes no more or less sense. And it would have an à in it, too. So it's like Shon. Also Bh sounds like V, which is how Siobhan sounds like Shevonne.

A lot of these went for the classic spellings.

I knew a Duwayne once and everyone called him Doo Wayne.

You're thinking of Stephan with an a. Different name entirely.

Want to burn down Ireland, too? It's a foreign name with a foreign spelling, not a personal insult to you.

The name originally was Michaela. It's a feminized form of Michael. Like Victoria for Victor. All these other phonetic spellings are the new versions. Most of the popular votes here went to the classic spellings and this one is no different.

It's the same reason we pronounce Louis like Lewis, because English speaking people just love to dumb down foreign pronunciations. It probably started out Steefen and the f got hardened to a v over time. Stephan has a a for the ah sound at the end.

I would give my child the middle one. I like your name but as someone with a commonly spelled and pronounced name who still has to correct people all the time, it seems to me like people would call you Hayna and misspell it constantly.