Moxie Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I know of a family in which the kids all have E names. The newest is Ean. Is Ean a real name or a creative spelling for Ian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Pretty sure it's a real name. Youngest would have been Ean is she was a boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I know an Ean. It's pronounced ee-in like most Ians (I know an Ian pronounced eye-in like Ian Ziering from the original 90210). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolatechip Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Well, it annoys me because phonetically it says EEN. (Like bean.) But its usually supposed to be a form of Ian as far as I know. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I've never come across it. Here we mostly have Ian (in England) and Iain (in Scotland) and Ioan (in Wales) and Eoin (Ireland). They are all the equivalent of John and Sean. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Interesting. I've never seen it. Thanks, though, Laura--I have trouble remembering the pronounciation of some Irish names, esp Eoin and Siobhan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I have never seen it spelled that way. And looking at it I keep thinking part of the word is missing. But, that is probably because I have never come across it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMamaBird Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I've never come across it. Here we mostly have Ian (in England) and Iain (in Scotland) and Ioan (in Wales) and Eoin (Ireland). They are all the equivalent of John and Sean My cousin has a little guy named Eoin. I've always just assumed that's the way it's spelled. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Ean does not seem a like a real spelling to me. I would assume the parents either didn't know how to spell Ian or were trying to be creative..... Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I know of a family in which the kids all have E names. The newest is Ean. Is Ean a real name or a creative spelling for Ian? My husband's name is Ean. It's the Welsh spelling according to one of those name plaque things he has. They were not into creative names...his brother is Gavin. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 The thing about Celtic is that (a) they have different alphabets, so all English Celtic names are transliterations and therefore vary, and (b) there is more than one Celtic language, so again, there's variation. I usually assume that parents are aware that many English names are transliterations from languages such as Hebrew, Celtic languages, Russian, Hindi, Persian, Greek, etc. and therefore that the spelling is varied and non-standard. I also assume that the parents appreciate the freedom we're given in the US and other English speaking countries to name our own children, even if we don't like what others do. So I believe they have usually thought quite a bit about it and decided on a name with the spelling that works for them. All the names are beautiful, IMO, because the child makes them so. Even the children that haven't been born yet. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 It is a trending name: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=ean&sw=both&exact=false 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I know an Ean. It's pronounced ee-in like most Ians (I know an Ian pronounced eye-in like Ian Ziering from the original 90210). I knew a woman whose some was Ian, pronounced eye-in. I actually think she did not know when she named him that that the pronunciation would normally be "EE-in." She would get so annoyed when people would say his name "wrong" by pronouncing it EE-in. P.S. This was a *grown* son. So...I just think that's a lot of annoyance to go through in life just because you chose to zig on your kid's name. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarasue7272 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I have an Ian. I got a lot of strange looks when he was born, lots of, "how do you spell that?" I never thought it was very strange. Pretty much everyone who said that was over 40. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropymama Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I had a friend with a son named Ean. Her husband was Dan, and it was kind of a tribute. They joked if the next baby was a girl she would be Fan. He has to be 10 now, so this was before it was trending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I had a friend with a son named Ean. Her husband was Dan, and it was kind of a tribute. They joked if the next baby was a girl she would be Fan. He has to be 10 now, so this was before it was trending. Wait, do Ean and Dan rhyme? In my head they don't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diplomum Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I don't think Ean is a Welsh version of Ian (it doesn't make sense linguistically) though Ian is undoubtedly a Celtic version of John). The Welsh forms are Ioan (yo-an) and Ieuan (yay-an) and Sion (borrowed from the Irish version Sean and pronounced the same). I've never seen Ean. Spellings are so fluid on such ancient names, though, that it wouldn't surprise me to find out it is a Manx version or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I don't think Ean is a Welsh version of Ian (it doesn't make sense linguistically) though Ian is undoubtedly a Celtic version of John). The Welsh forms are Ioan (yo-an) and Ieuan (yay-an) and Sion (borrowed from the Irish version Sean and pronounced the same). I've never seen Ean. Spellings are so fluid on such ancient names, though, that it wouldn't surprise me to find out it is a Manx version or something like that. I'm not sure how accurate the plaque is, lol, but I could see Ean being a form of Ieuan. Drop the e and u to get Ian or drop the I and u to get Ean. Also, until this thread I didn't realize Ean was a form of John. My ex was John. My husband now is Ean. Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momofkhm Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I have an Ian. I got a lot of strange looks when he was born, lots of, "how do you spell that?" I never thought it was very strange. Pretty much everyone who said that was over 40. I have a cousin named Ian. He's 5 or 6 years younger than me so around as long as my memory. I never thought it strange either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I've known quite a few Ians, but never one that spelled it Ean. As far as real spelling or real name, I'm not one to care. If that's the name and spelling someone gives their kid, then as far as I'm concerned it's a real name and real spelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I have trouble remembering the pronounciation of some Irish names, esp Eoin and Siobhan I knew a Siobhan whose parents spelled it Shevon. People always wanted to say SHEH-von and she always had to tell them it's pronounced She-VON. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janie Grace Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 How do you spell the name that sounds like "You-in"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 How do you spell the name that sounds like "You-in"? Ewan? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleowl Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Behind the Name lists it as the Manx form of John, so yes, a related name. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Behind the Name lists it as the Manx form of John, so yes, a related name.Here's an article with more info. http://m.ohbabynames.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohbabynames.com%2Fmeaning%2Fname%2Fean%2F1994 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Here's an article with more info. http://m.ohbabynames.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohbabynames.com%2Fmeaning%2Fname%2Fean%2F1994 Their geography is a bit off though: the Isle of Man lies between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. Eire is further south. On this map (click on the map of the UK) it's the island to the south east of Belfast. Unless they mean 'between the island of Ireland and the UK', in which case it should be 'between the island of Ireland and Great Britain.' I will now shuffle back into my pedantarium. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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