My in-laws almost named my partner Siobhan. My first name is also unique and not intuitively spelled. We have a family joke about this name and my partner dodging a bullet.

If you’ve never dealt with regular people, outside Ireland, it would be an utter nightmare to say “last name is Shu-vahn, S, I, O…” and get cut of by O by aggressively stupid people who have already written down “Shuvaughn” and moved on. I’ve been told by people I don’t know how to spell my own name, or that my first name is now something that sounds similar and is more familiar to them, and not what I’m telling them.

Only people with EU passports should ever mess with Celtic spellings of names.