A name that's hard(er) to pronounce?

[LolaInLove]

Suregena, I think I remember seeing your son's names somewhere and they are awesome!

[suregena]

Thanks!

[atomic sagebrush]

My son's name is "unusual" I guess but still rather normal, but we've had every reaction imaginable to it, like my older brother saying, "You're not going to name him THAT are you?!" (We had the name picked out years before we got pregnant with him!)
We also ALWAYS get, "Is he named after Otis Redding?"

We say, "No, he's named after and for his own self!"

People like to think they are being clever, don't they? :P

I prob. mentioned this before but we took SO much flak for naming Wyatt, Wyatt 20+ years ago, and now it's one of the top names in the country! People don't know what they're talking about anyway!

[ILindGurl]

personally I love names that are unique for girls. and I wouldn't worry too much about pronunciation...i never minded having to keep pronouncing my name and spelling it over and over as a child. my mom is from france and so she gave me one of the most popular girl's names in France the year I was born. I knew 10 of them over there...but I was the only one with my name up until college (there was 1 other girl in over 10,000 students and she spelled it differently). Very few people seemed to know the name growing up (even though it's really not that unusual) and would mis-pronounce it and a few kids even made fun of it in 3rd/4th grade because it was so "weird". 40 years later, it is now SOOO popular in the United States. I remember when I started college, suddenly instead of having to spell over and over or repeat my name, people would say "what a beautiful name"...I guess I should have known then it would explode. Now I take my boys to the playground and it always freaks me out when I turn around only to find a parent calling their little girl!

So like Atomic said....you can pick it now and people can hate it...and years later it becomes a hit (and you are a trend setter!).

ok, I know you are curious. My name is Isabelle.

[Pangea]

My cousin is American and he called his daughter Aine. Where I'm living now people pronounce it Awnya because of the fada, but where my family are from in Donegal they don't pronounce the fada so it's pronounced Ah-nya, I imagine my cousin pronounces it that way.

[Ribbons]

We would definitely pronounce it Ah-nya as that is what people who hear it will repeat... I can't imagine Americans naturally adding the fada, so at least we'll make it kind of easier for everyone

Now if I could just get everyone to stop naming their daughters Sophia, we'd be in business! LOL

[Hobbermittens]

What's a fada?

[Ribbons]

It's the Irish term for an acute accent. (From Wikipedia: Irish: á, é, í, ó, ú are the long equivalents of the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The accent is known as a síneadh fada /ˌʃiːnʲə ˈfadˠə/ (length accent), usually abbreviated to fada.)

The traditional spelling is Áine but I wouldn't do that here in the states.

[CherryBlossom]

I think the spelling is pretty. I'll confess I wouldn't have a clue how to pronounce it ( till now). I also like the other spellings also. Personally your child your way! If you an dh like that name thb you spell and pronounce it that way =). People are tattoo judgmental these days!

I mean after I had my first ds1. I had people screw up their noses at us due to the spelling of his name. I'd say it's a traditional/common name. Just a letter missing. We named him ADEN. Pronounced ay-den. Same way you say ayden aiden Aidan etc. impossible to find things with his name on it but I cant stand the spelling of Aden with a I a y I like but my some looked fierce when born and I found the y was too soft for him. But I had people pm me asking me how I pronounce it. My partner had a bloke at work tell him that we shouldn't mess with our kids names an keep the spelling how it's meant to be.
There's no RULE BOOK!!! I mean I you spelt it really of like ayydehhn. Then yeah, very hard for the child. But no one has that say but you and dh. =)

Atomic. I love your name!!! I've even considered it for a girls name. But I have a good friend with that name. Not sure why people couldn't pronounce it though! Or spell it? So pretty and nice. Maybe its just a popular name in Australia?
When I was at school no one else had my name. Especially not with my spelling. Just unheard of. People still spell it wrong or ask but meh. My name is Abby. It's when people pronounce it uh-bee that kind of annoys me. A-bee is how I pronounce it.
Same as my last name. Everyone pronounces it with a u rather than a o =/

I must say this. Sophia is a pretty name. I *think* many names become popular due to tv shows and singers. The name Sophia became significantly popular whb the tv show teen mom was aired. Same goes with the names maci, allyah (sp?) etc.
I do like known names but I rather then be further down the liked list than number 1 for my kids =)

Best of luck. Xo

[auroara78]

ok, I know you are curious. My name is Isabelle.

YES! I was curious! In French Class in high school I had thing for the name Cosette, but my French teacher told me Cosette was a bad name because of the book by Victor Hugo, and that people in France associated with being "poor" or "dirty." I wrote this book in high school and named the main charater Cozette (I loved it anyway!) and my lunch table would read it, and instead of finding all the soap opera hijinks unbelievable, they found the name too unbelievable! "no one in the us would name a child that name!" LOL

I love it how even characters in a book get their names critizied too! My French name was Sophia, because I didn't want to use the French variant of my real name...my name is Virginia, and the french variant is Virginie, which I've heard was/is in the top 20 of girl names!