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Help[Opinions] Valmai
Found this name in an obituary in the North Wales papers last week on an 80-yr-old lady - it's pronounced VAL-my (to rhyme with high). I looked it up because I've never seen it before, and it seems to have had a little run in popularity in Wales between 1899 and 1930. It's not a Welsh name as Welsh doesn't use the letter v, but seems to be an invention based on Val plus the Welsh version of May. Has anyone else come across it, and wdyt?
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I've never come across it. It's interesting. I kind of like it.
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I don't like it very much - looks a bit outlandish.
But I have seen it before, and knew instinctively how to pronounce it.
I've just entered it into "search" on the home page of Ancestry.com, and loads appear! I didn't go past the home page, but DOBs were 1912-30-ish, and there were two in Wales (W. Glamorgan and Llanelli), the rest being English.
It sort of reminds me of a cross between the dreadful Australian old-time favourite Valda plus Vashti.
But I have seen it before, and knew instinctively how to pronounce it.
I've just entered it into "search" on the home page of Ancestry.com, and loads appear! I didn't go past the home page, but DOBs were 1912-30-ish, and there were two in Wales (W. Glamorgan and Llanelli), the rest being English.
It sort of reminds me of a cross between the dreadful Australian old-time favourite Valda plus Vashti.
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I haven't seen it, but it sounds cool. I wouldn't use it (except maybe as a place name in a story), but it sounds good.
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