Comments for the name Thalia

This is my new favorite name. It has such a pretty sound and I love what it means.

To me Anna Thalia sounds so pretty on a girl.

Thalia is pronounced 2 ways: THAYL-ya or TAHL-e-uh.

Well someone made a comment that there are 2 ways to pronounce it. Well my name is Thalia and I can assure you there is only one way. It's just Thalia. It's a Greek name so it should be pronounced the normal way.

Someone has made a comment about Thalia, that it is pronounced two ways. Well that is true. I have a sister and people pronounce her name two ways.

"Ariadna Thalia Sodi Miranda" is the name of the Mexican singer and actress known as "Thalia", who became famous for the Mexican serial "Rosalinda" and the song "Rosalinda" to this film, which she performed.

It is pronounced tha-LYE-ah. Here is a spoken pronunciation - http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/thalia.html.

I think this name is very pretty!

Cool name. It took me a while to understand how to say it though.

One of my favorite names. Simply beautiful and not so common. It sounds very classy for now. Love the meaning and all. I prefer the pronunciation tha-LEE-eah than tha-LIE-eah though.

I have a friend with this name, and she pronounces it 'tah-LEE-uh'. She's Puerto Riccan or something.

Well, since the Greek is Θάλεια (with the accent), then the correct Greek pronunciation is THA-ley-ah.

Listen up non-Spanish people. My name is Thalia (I'm Puerto Rican) :) and in English it is pronounced th-uh-lee-uh (not very hard) in Spanish. Well you need an accent so I'm not going to tell you.

Beautiful beautiful name. I love the background history of it. Such beautiful historical significance of a Greek Muse. How pretty. The name itself is pretty. I also like the related name Talia which is Hebrew for Dew of Heaven. But I really like Thalia. Thalia is Greek for blossoming. Pretty pretty name.

In Rick Riordan's book series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, one of the main characters is named Thalia, and she's a daughter of Zeus.

Pronounced THAYL-yah.

My Greek teacher says that it's pronounced tah-LEE-ah.

I need to correct myself, the correct Greek pronunciation would be tha-LYE-ah.

There is a white daffodil named Thalia. It was bred in 1916 and the petals have been compared to doves and orchids.

Thalia is a Czech award given for theatre, opera, operetta, musical and ballet.

I shan't add to the pronunciation debate, but I'd rather say how lovely this name is. Thalia sounds like a very classy, albeit usable name. I have a story character named Talia, but that was a nickname for her real name - Natalia.

I believe it technically is pronounced Tha-LIE-uh, based on the Greek Muse. Having said that, I love the idea of this name. It's beautiful to look at and to see written out and to hear. However, I do think Tha-lie-a can become a bit of a mouthful and as much as I love it, I could not foresee myself calling a girl this all the time. When said fast, it loses a lot of its charm.

It can differ from country to country; when I first saw this name I thought with it being Greek, was pronounced TAL-lee-ah, but when I went to a thesaurus it was actually pronounced thu-LIE-uh.

I like this name a lot, I think it's pretty!

Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus in the Percy Jackson series. She supposedly has short black hair, intense blue eyes, carries the spear Aegis, and was turned into a pine tree by her father to keep her from dying. Her brother is Jason Grace from the Heroes of Olympus series.

Thalia Grace carried a shield Aegis, not a spear. It's a shield with the face of the Gorgon Medusa engraved in it. I believe it was copied from Zeus's own shield.

There are two pronunciations of Thalia. I personally like it when you say it like tall-yuh.

This name is used in various countries, so the pronunciation shifts depending on the language of the bearer. In English is has three different general pronunciations, thuh-LIE-ah, from the 16th-century English, THAY-lee-ah and then TAHL-ee-ah. Yes, in Spanish it may be pronounced (tuh-LEE-ah) or whatever, but that is not the only correct way to say it. The name is originally Greek so if we are going to go by who had the name first then the correct pronunciation should be Greek. Until then, accept the fact that the name is used all over the world and that it is going to be pronounced differently depending on where you are at.

I like this name when pronounced tall-ya. When it's pronounced thall-ee-ah it sounds like the person pronouncing it has a really bad lisp... for that reason I MUCH prefer it pronounced tall-ya.