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I love Llewellyn! Well, as a keen Welsh learner I pronounce it in Welsh, with this sound between l and sh, for ll, don't know how to describe it properly, it should be called a fricative I guess. Anyway. I prefer Llewelyn to Llewellyn, because it just sounds somehow more natural in pronounciation to me, I guess I've heard it more often, although with English pronounciation it rather isn't very important how many l's you will use, just the case of esthetics. Llywelyn is also great and it was the first form of this name I've come across. I guess if I would live in Wales or anywhere it could be usable, i'd use Llywelyn. As for usability, I don't live in the US, but I guess it could be quite troublesome, 'cause it really sounds like Lou Ellen in English and pronounced in English way sounds rather girly and very gently. So even if other children won't notice it and won't call him Lou ELlen, I suppose he'd have to always correct people how his name is pronounced and it might be hard to convince them that ew is not an oo sound, but just e-w. No idea about English version, I don't think there is any. You could use Lewellyn, although I'm not sure if it'll change anything plus it doesn't look that great then. Lewellen looks definitely like creative spelling of Louellen though so I wouldn't use it in any case.

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My PNL:
https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/154777

This message was edited 12/12/2017, 11:23 AM