Brits, what's your go-to pronunciation for this name?

Girl Names
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A question for Brits, and in particular those from south east [name]England[/name]:

If you saw the name [name]Lucia[/name], how would automatically thing to pronounce it? Would you pronounce it differently if it was [name]Luc[/name]ía?

I got to thinking that the pronunciation I use is based on my heritage, but it probably isn’t the typical one most people here would go to. Not that that bothers me - my birth name has 3 different pronunciations and when I was still going by that name I just told people “say it however you want”! So if I ever did have a [name]Lucia[/name] and she couldn’t get “our” pronunciation to catch on it wouldn’t be a huge deal to me. I’m just curious as to what people would naturally come to :slight_smile:

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‘loo-chee-a’. I think Italian first, so say it their way.

3

I speak Italian, so loo-CHEE-ah is the logical pronunciation for me. Next is loo-SEE-ah.

4

Not a [name]Brit[/name], but my go-to is loo-SEE-ah… the Spanish pronunciation. loo-CHEE-ah would be my next choice. LOO-sha just never seemed logical to me.

5

loo-CHEE-ah is the pronunciation I would use (because it’s Italian, as mentioned, and so am I) so it’s nice to see that most people are on the same track :slight_smile: LOO-sha is the only pronunciation that I don’t like the sound of, even though my cat’s name is [name]Lucia[/name] pronounced that way! But that’s because she was named after St. [name]Lucia[/name] by my stepdad as that’s where his family’s from.