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This is my name and I love it. A lot of people reading it for the first time pronounce it el-AY-ree, which I'm surprised to learn is the more "accurate" Welsh pronunciation because my family and I have always just pronounced it like "Ellery"!
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Eleri Ward is an American musician and actress. In addition to her own works, she is perhaps best known for her indie-folk covers of several Stephen Sondheim songs.
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Said more like, eh-LAYR-ee. Here's Welsh speakers saying it. https://forvo.com/word/eleri/#cy
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Carys Eleri is a Welsh actress and singer.
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I love, love, love the name Eleri! It sounds so melodic and elfin. I like Ellery, but Eleri both looks and sounds so much better. I also like a similar Welsh name Meleri. I am a Welsh language learner and huge enthusiast and sometimes I feel that perhaps if I ever ended up having children, after all, I could name a girl Eleri, as a tribute to Welsh language and because Eleri would be a very easy to pronounce Welsh name here in Poland, unlike in the Anglophone countries other than Wales. But it would still be a very bold choice and I'm not sure if I'd have enough courage. I would not use it and would not recommend to anyone using it in an Anglophone country that is not Wales, because I'd be worried that it would be considered just a creative spelling of Ellery and pronounced as such. Also, even in Wales I don't think it's a fresh choice. I've heard that it's very much a 60's 70's name there so perhaps it would be like naming an American baby Sharon or Linda or something? My main association with the name Eleri will forever be Eleri Siôn from BBC Radio Wales and her accent, as well as a Welsh song by Betsan Hâf Evans called Eleri.
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Eleri Fón was one of the members of a famous Welsh-language 80's-90's pop rock band Sobin A'r Smaeliaid, founded by Bryn Fôn.
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Quite pretty. I prefer this to Ellery.
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[ɛˈleˑrɪ] [noted -ed]
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I don't know what the correct Welsh pronunciation is, but I know an Eleri who says it just like Ellery.
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My 12 year old granddaughter is called Eleri, such a beautiful name.
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I love it. One of the theories is it's the Welsh version of Mary.
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The name Eleri means river.
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Nice name, but the pronunciation ehl-AIR-ee doesn't come naturally to me...
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The meaning of Eleri is river.
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People are going to pronounce this like ellery. Then your child will have to hear celery jokes for all eternity.
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Pronounced el-AYR-ree. The stress is on the middle syllable not the first.
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Pronounced el-AYR-ee the middle syllable is stressed.
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Echoing Jonquil's comment: 'Possibly derived from Welsh el- "greatly, much" and geri "bitter." This was the name of a river in Ceredigion and a 5th-century saint, the grandmother of Saint David.'
Apparently, there are two related Welsh feminine names: Meleri, derived from Welsh my "my" and Eleri; and Teleri, from Welsh ty "your" and Eleri. 'Teleri verch Peul was one of the maidens of King Arthur's court mentioned in Kulhwch and Olwen.'
Source: http://www.amethyst-night.com/names/welshfem.html
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Apparently, there are two related Welsh feminine names: Meleri, derived from Welsh my "my" and Eleri; and Teleri, from Welsh ty "your" and Eleri. 'Teleri verch Peul was one of the maidens of King Arthur's court mentioned in Kulhwch and Olwen.'
Source: http://www.amethyst-night.com/names/welshfem.html
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This beautiful lilting name is also that of a Welsh river. In their "The Brilliant Book of Baby Names" Satran and Rosenkrantz give the meaning as "greatly bitter".
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I've heard that Eleri means 'the daughter of a queen'.
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Gorgeous name!
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It is pronounced e-LEH-ree, stressed on the middle syllable. Not the same as Ellery.
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