# Hispanic names ending in -th **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 25, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hispanic-names-ending-in-th/840787 "2019-09-25T02:37:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hispanic-names-ending-in-th/840787/1 "2019-09-25T02:37:16Z")
Recently, I’ve noticed a few names of women from Hispanic countries of the form Y…th: Yenith, Yulieth, Yenileth, etc. I get that the initial ⟨y⟩ is pronounced similarly to the soft G in English (/dʒ/ or /ʝ/ or maybe /ʝʝ/). But what about the ⟨th⟩? I could only find one woman with one of those names on YouTube pronouncing her name; to my untrained ears, it sounded like a normal /t/ to me. For what it’s worth, she was Colombian. (The only remotely famous person I can think of with one of those names is Panamanian goalkeeper Yenith Bailey, but I couldn’t find a pronunciation guide for her name.) 1. _Is_ it just a normal /t/? 2. Would the names sound differently if they were spelled with just ⟨t⟩ instead of ⟨th⟩? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hispanic-names-ending-in-th/840787/2 "2019-09-25T02:53:05Z")
Some of those names are from English: Yulieth is supposed to be Juliet, for example (in Spanish it’s Julieta and the J is a /x/). Some are invented. That final “th” isn’t part of Spanish spelling rules, it’s a piece of “trying to be fancy”: there isn’t an official pronunciation for it (…yet; with or without variation by dialect). Fancy word: its pronunciation is idiolectal (it varies depending on the individual).