I believe the correct pronunciation is something like LOORDZ, and I have no idea if the 'popular' one (something like LOOR-dess) is legit at all. I also think it's a bit odd on a non-Spanish child, but not horrible. I recently cared for triplets (Caucasian), two boys and a girl, named
Liam,
Logan &
Lourdes (LOOR-dess). The names together were extremely trendy and cutesy together imo, not good at all. But that's the only actual "
Lourdes" I've ever met. :b
ETA: I clicked on the link. I was wrong about the correct pronunciation (no Z sound on the end), but the LOOR-dess one is not even close! lol
~
Heather~

This message was edited 1/11/2006, 2:56 PM