Help!

I'm English and know how to pronounce Ceilidh, but I have visited Scotland a lot and been to a couple of ceilidhs. I didn't know it could be used as a name! I wouldn't have thought people would mispronounce Caledonia?

Tbh…nope! I tried.

Kale-dohn-ee-ah?

Seal-ee-d?

Callie? Although Eilidh is more like hayley without the h... so is it Cayley?!

As a Scottish gal my self, I can already imagine the other bairns making jokes about "doing Ceilidh in gym". The lyrics to a Caledonia aren't much more lending to an easy life. Other braw Scottish names though could be Isla or Skye which might be harder to make up lewd jokes on the playground.

My instinct would be Cal-uh-don-ee-uh and Kayley

I know how to pronounce it but a long-term ex's family are Scottish, so that might be cheating.

I personally wouldn't use either words as names but if you do, I would get ready for yourself/your child to spend the rest of their life correcting people, explaining, having to spell their name out etc - Not saying this to be horrible, just from personal experience with a relatively easy birth name people still managed to mess up/get wrong until I legally changed it.

Beautiful name choices. I’m Scottish and can pronounce them fine. My name is Catriana and it’s pronounced Cat-ria-na but I get Catriona, Catroona Catrana so people will unfortunately say it wrong sometimes x