Llio

While it may look like a variation of popular Leo, Llio is in fact a Welsh name, derived from Gwenllian, the medieval name of a legendary princess who is a national heroine in Wales. Given to a small handful of girls most years in Wales — three in a recent count — the double L sound is hard to translate into English because it is specifically Welsh.

A rough guide to the pronunciation however would be SHEE-aw, the double L being somewhere between the L in please and the sh sound. As such, you might see it described as HLEE-aw too, HL- being a frictive sound.

Pronounced HLEE-oh.