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I don't think that pronunciation would ever have been a problem, Harry Potter or no. It's an Irish name that, unlike most Irish names, became well-known enough in the US (if that's the country that you're thinking of) that Americans have known for a long time how to pronounce it despite the counter-intuitive spelling.

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My sister named her Irish Setter Seamus way back in the early 1970s and the pronunciation was known then. Unfortunately, that Irish Setter is all I can think of when I hear the name. I don't like it because, although I certainly didn't dislike the dog and he was beautiful, he was goofy and hyperactive so it's a goofy, hyperactive name to me.