Okay maybe this is a bit too out there, but it has become a real GP of mine and I’d love to hear your opinions!
Celebrían
Any pros and cons? Is it usable?
It was invented by Tolkien.
It means “silver maiden”.
Pronounced: keh-leh-BREE-an
It will for sure be mispronounced. It does hava a nice sound and vibe, so maybe use it as a middle name!
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I pronounced it correctly when I first saw the title, and I think it’s a lovely name!
I think it’s usable, but it might need to be spelt out or corrected.
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I love all [name_m]Tolkien[/name_m] names, so I’m biased 
I do think its usable, but it would get a lot of pronunciation issues unfortunately! I know online pretty often and even in Jackson’s movies, named like Celebrian are sometimes mispronounced by saying the ‘C’ with an ‘S’ sound.
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Yeah, my fear is that people say it like celebrate + [name_m]Brian[/name_m] 
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It has an elegant look and I like the sound! Unfortunately it does remind me of the word celebrity (which I don’t love) and with that similarity I would definitely assume the first syllable to be pronounced like “seh” rather than “keh”. I think it’s usable as a middle name only as I would worry it would be frustrating explaining the spelling/pronunciation constantly if it were a first name.
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It’s bit too close to celebrity for me and the pronunciation is non-intuitive to me as a person who took a Romance language in school (where c followed by e/i never makes a K sound).
However, I do like the sound of the name!
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Others have said it- may be mispronounced, I sadly did.
While I don’t think it’s unusable, the lack of nicknames and the hard to pronounce nature would make this a name I wouldn’t lean towards.
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I believe in Welsh (which heavily inspired Elvish), the C makes a K sound, like in [name_u]Celyn[/name_u]!
@Mayblossom yeah, unfortunately I do think a lot of people would say it like the beginning of Celebrate! I do think they might have an easier time with “bree” vs “bry”, though!
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Maybe [name_f]Bri[/name_f] (said like Bree). For a nickname.
Cellie (like Kelly) might work too.
I know it’s from [name_m]Tolkien[/name_m], but my first impression is that it looks kind of like a smoosh of “celebrity” and “Brian”…
It’s a nice name in theory, but I think it would be mispronounced a lot and most people would not be familiar with the literary reference.
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I recognize it from [name_m]Tolkien[/name_m], but still mispronounced it in my head 
! It’s a cool name, but it’s definitely a brave name that might require some explanation. I also think the ending might have some people think it’s a boy name. Perhaps as a middle?
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I definitely would assume the seh-le-bree-in pronunciation simply because that’s just how all Ce- words are pronounced in [name_f]English[/name_f], and I even read LotR. I didn’t think of “celebrity,” my first thought was “celebrate” which I think is nice! I think it’s a nice sounding name but if you used it I think it would make the most sense to either pronounce it with the S sound or change the spelling to Kelebrian.
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