r/armenia • u/peachyquokka8872 • 1d ago

Girl names?

Hello! My husband and I are expecting a baby girl. I am part Armenian and would love to have some of our family identity passed down, since her middle and last name will not be. What are your thoughts on easy to pronounce Armenian girl names for Americans?

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u/aj1805 1d ago

Anoush, Talin, Ani

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u/Scared-Wind3944 1d ago

Speaking from experience with relatives, it is optimal to spell it Taleen rather than Talin. Americans always mis pronounce my relatives with the spelling Talin but the one with Taleen don't get mis pronounced

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u/finewalecorduroy 1d ago

I would agree with this, also speaking from experience with relatives. Taline = tay-leen, tuh-leen, tay-line. I would assume that Talin also gets "talon".

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u/Scared-Wind3944 1d ago

The most horrible thing I heard was someone pronounced Ani as Ay-nye. But 99.9% of the time Ani gets pronounced correctly.

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u/finewalecorduroy 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, I have heard that too. I disagree that Ani is pronounced correctly most of the time, it is almost always “Annie” on first try.

In Chris Bohjalian’s novel The Flight Attendant, there is an Armenian character named Ani. In the HBO adaptation, they pronounce it Annie. Chris Bohjalian said at a talk I saw recently that the producers/directors didn’t bother asking him how it was pronounced so they filmed almost the whole thing with Ani pronounced “Annie.” Then they found out from him that they were pronouncing it wrong, but it was too late to change it, so they threw in a scene with the character saying she didn’t correct people when they pronounced it wrong and she regrets not standing up for her name.