The name is Myhavh. I didn’t find anything on Google or on baby names websites, but a friend of a friend named his kid that. Anyone ever heard of it before? How would you pronounce it? I’ve only seen it written, not heard it spoken.
My first impulse was “MEE-hahv” with a kinda guttural phlegmy first h on the hahv. No idea what clues I think I’m picking up on.
Mangrove Throatwarbler?
There’s no way to tell, I think. You’ll have to ask the parents, and be prepared to stifle that giggling.
Yeah, it’ll probably end up being Michael or Michelle somehow.
Unfortunately, I don’t know the parents, and my friend didn’t know how to say it either, having read it on their blog. I had the idea that maybe it was Gaelic or something, pronounced Mia? Or Maya? Eh. I guess I’ll have to live with not knowing.
I wonder if it might be pronouced the same as Maeve (i.e. ‘Meev’) - it looks a bit Gaelic to me
Not Gaelic, I’m afraid. I don’t know any language with a terminal “-vh” like that. If it were “Myhavn” with an “n”, it would be a perfectly good Scandinavian place-name! But isn’t it more likely that the parents just made it up?
Edited to add: Google turns up a few Swedish people with the surname “Havh”.