Donovan

[ivyblossom]

I was looking up the history of the name "Donovan" (because I was considering it for a character name, and I wanted to know when it first came into regular use as a first name), and I found this:

The boy's name Donovan is pronounced DAH-na-vun.

Can an Irish person (or English person?) help me out with this one? Is this an American pronunciation key, or do you really say it that way? I would have thought it was DAWN-a-vun.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

It's never occured to me that it might be anything but "Dah-na-vun."

I'm from America, the Midwest. (Not there currently, but I haven't heard the name since moving, so.)