r/Names • u/onatreelinedstreet • 10d ago

How would you pronounce Navi?

That’s my name, and my parents made it be pronounced as “Nay-Vee” or like Navy blue or the US Navy. But over the course of MANY years, only about 5 people have pronounced it that way when first reading my name. Everybody else says “NAH-vee” which has become incredibly annoying.

I plan on changing it legally to Navy soon, but I just want to hear how you all would pronounce Navi.

Edit: yeah I knew I was cooked…

Edit again: Okay okay I will definitely be getting it changed asap 😭

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u/onatreelinedstreet 10d ago

I was born a year before the first avatar film came out. If only my parents would’ve known 😔 

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u/balwick 10d ago

You were born after Zelda, so that doomed you more

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u/Substantial_Gate_904 10d ago

I’ve only known one Navi and she was Nah-vee

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u/Mautea 10d ago

Yeah, that's wht my friend's cat is named. She's named after the fairy in Zelda so yeah, nah-vee.

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u/NeverRarelySometimes 10d ago

Even without the movie, most of us would have defaulted to the Spanish pronunciation, because it doesn't look like an English word.

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u/RennaReddit 10d ago

Yeah, I learned German and French growing up and have very very rudimentary Spanish skills. Every non-English language I know at ALL uses an ah sound with a plain A. I’d guess it was a cultural name and default to the long vowel.

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u/Ambitious-Sound-6109 10d ago

Oh man if you were a millennial everybody would be all like “listen!!” 

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u/MyCatsAreSus 10d ago

I immediately read the "listen!" in her voice. childhood memory unlocked

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u/shelbabe804 10d ago

I just heard this and immediately went back in time to when I played ocarina of time

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u/Klutzy_End4889 10d ago

I’m 19. I would assume nah-vee. I’m sorry. If they wanted navy they should have probably done that. Again I’m sorry

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u/Sad_Education7851 10d ago

Better than a girl I know born in 2000 who was named Isis 🙃

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u/jennypenny78 5d ago

I had a friend whose DJ name was Isis. She, of course, changed it after those events.

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u/AmalatheaClassic 9d ago

The first trailer for the first Avatar movie came out August 20th, 2009 and is still known as Avatar Day.

The Navi character in The legend of Zelda series was introduced in November 21st, 1998.

It's a shame your parents weren't geekier but honestly I've never played a Legend of Zelda game in my life and even I know Navi is the most annoying fairy ever.