Baby name pronunciations

[MrsKyliePaton]

3 years on and we still have problems with lyssa's name.
her consultant regularly calls her amelia, which isnt even close.
her name is pronounced ah-liss-uh
we get all sorts though. most common is ah-lisa
but allison and amelia pop up alot too.
what gets me is that people can pronounce lyssa (which is what we call her) absolutely fine, but stil the "A" infront and people struggle?

I love the name alyssa, that's what I wanted to call Georgia but oh didn't go for it 😔

 

[MissMaternal]

My two have fairly straightforward names (Charlotte and Nathaniel). There are never any problems with Charlotte, but sometimes people whose first language isn't English struggle with Nathaniel as I think sometimes they have just never heard of the name. Also, it can be spelled incorrectly at times but it doesn't bother me - it's my fault for choosing a "complicated" name!

That's something that does amuse me actually - people who give their children normal sounding names but spell them differently, and then get annoyed when people spell them wrong! There's a Haeleigh in a baby group I go to - but if you'd only ever heard her name spoken out loud (Hayley) then why would you think it would be spelled like that?! Her mum gets REALLY stroppy if someone gets it wrong!

I too have a Charlotte... And you would think it's impossible to get wrong... But no! Up until about a month ago (LO is 11 months old..) my own MOTHER pronounced it char-LOT with the emphasise on the LOTTE. Most normal people pronounce it CHAR-lut if that makes sense... It drove me absolutely crazy and one day I snapped at her and she seems to have got the hint!

My nanny also spells her name Charlott with no E, but she is 83 so I'll let that one go...

 

[NicholaP]

People call Joni (pronounced joanie) johnny all the time. The nurse even 'kindly' changed the gender to male on the computer last time I was there. I love the name Joni (obviously haha) but I hope she doesn't mind that it gets pronounced wrong a lot. X

My best friend is called Joni never known anyone else to have the same name! Don't think she has either lol xx

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

Oh I seem to have been saying most of these names right in my head

My 2 have easy names though "Matthew and Ruby" No one has ever said or spelt them wrong (sometimes people do 1 T but thats ok).

We have thought so hard this time to find a name people can spell and prn. Its hard!

 

[mamas_melon]

I think there is three Finlay James on here! James is his Dad's middle name. Some idiot did try to call him FJ but we killed that off pretty quickly.

My LO is Finley Jay, he was going to be Finley James as my DH's middle name is also James, but we decided on Jay when he was born! Popular name lol.

 

[Sproglet]

Just for fun, how would you pronounce Siobhan? That had me stumped the first time I saw it, even though I'd heard the name several times.

 

[eulmh82]

Accents also surely play a part. I was born in Nottingham and it really winds me up but they pronounce their words ending in y really oddly. Like I'm Lindsey. Lind zee. but they pronounce the sey bit as seh. like baby is bay beh. It;s a horrible sound and I hate it so purposely don;t do it. But perhpas accents play a part in it too.

 

[Sproglet]

Accents also surely play a part. I was born in Nottingham and it really winds me up but they pronounce their words ending in y really oddly. Like I'm Lindsey. Lind zee. but they pronounce the sey bit as seh. like baby is bay beh. It;s a horrible sound and I hate it so purposely don;t do it. But perhpas accents play a part in it too.

I'm notts born and bred, but I do eee ending. But my friend Becky (beck-eh) has a baby (bab-eh) daughter called Evie (Eve-eh), they're from Loughborough though. Yes, it grates on me, but I never know whether to say Eve-ee how I would pronounce it or Eve-eh because that's what she's used to.

Besides what if it's not just a different accent but how they want it to be pronounced! Like I had a friend called Tanya and she was adamant it be pronounced Tawn-ya by everyone because that's how it was in her home accent.

Argh this name thing is a mine field!

 

[Haylee.]

Just for fun, how would you pronounce Siobhan? That had me stumped the first time I saw it, even though I'd heard the name several times.

Sio-barn!

But in my accent I pronounce it Shiv-on lol

 

[Emerald87]

My LO is Kaida - pronounced Kay-Duh
Her ped calls her Kai (rhymes with eye) - duh until I say her name and he corrects himself - until the next appointment LOL.
When people ask her name and I say Kaida, they clarify with "Kayta?" "Katia" - NO I SAID KAIDA... argh lol. We had a lot of discussions before her birth about mixing things up. I didn't mind the Kai-Dah issue but when I say it to them, how hard is it to hear what I'm saying? Sometimes I have to accentuate like "oh her name is Kaayyyyyyyyyy Da"

 

[shellideaks]

Just for fun, how would you pronounce Siobhan? That had me stumped the first time I saw it, even though I'd heard the name several times.

Shi-vorn? Or at least that's how I say it

 

[Sproglet]

Just for fun, how would you pronounce Siobhan? That had me stumped the first time I saw it, even though I'd heard the name several times.

Shi-vorn? Or at least that's how I say it

Yep, but the first time I saw it written I was like See-oh-barn? See-ob-han? Until the penny dropped! I mean,who'd have thought shi-vorn was spelled like that?

 

[Indi84]

I think there is three Finlay James on here! James is his Dad's middle name. Some idiot did try to call him FJ but we killed that off pretty quickly.

My LO is Finley Jay, he was going to be Finley James as my DH's middle name is also James, but we decided on Jay when he was born! Popular name lol.

Lol mine is Finlay jack, was going to be jay or James!

 

[shellideaks]

Just for fun, how would you pronounce Siobhan? That had me stumped the first time I saw it, even though I'd heard the name several times.

Shi-vorn? Or at least that's how I say it

Yep, but the first time I saw it written I was like See-oh-barn? See-ob-han? Until the penny dropped! I mean,who'd have thought shi-vorn was spelled like that?

Lol yeah, it is pretty weird. I only know it cos I knew a girl at school called that.

 

[Mrs.B.]

We have Elyssa. , (Elle - issa) Not el-eye-za or El-EE-sa lol

I'm Ceri (Kerry) and also get alsorts, Cherry and Seri being the most popular

 

[theraphosidae]

It's like Saoirse (Seer-shuh)...OH and I love that name but the first time I saw it I had to look up how it was pronounced, and since we don't live in Ireland not many people here would know how to pronounce it and she would constantly be having to tell people how to say her name.

 

[bumblebeexo]

We have a Teagan. It's how it's spelt - TEA - GAN. One or two people have pronounced it 'Teg -an' but it doesn't happen often. It's mainly the spelling people get wrong!

 

[Blizzard]

I have a Finley. We thought it was pretty straight forward! Pronounced as it is written Fin-lee. Middle name is Stuart not James sadly. Could have been though as his dad's middle name is James.

We got a bauble for Fin from my husband's cousin. "My first Christmas. Finlay 2012". I put it at the back.

 

[Sproglet]

Oh- at work we have an Alicia (a-liss-ee-uh) and an Alicia (a-lee-shuh) confusing, huh?

 

[tina3747]

Accents also surely play a part. I was born in Nottingham and it really winds me up but they pronounce their words ending in y really oddly. Like I'm Lindsey. Lind zee. but they pronounce the sey bit as seh. like baby is bay beh. It;s a horrible sound and I hate it so purposely don;t do it. But perhpas accents play a part in it too.

I'm notts born and bred, but I do eee ending. But my friend Becky (beck-eh) has a baby (bab-eh) daughter called Evie (Eve-eh), they're from Loughborough though. Yes, it grates on me, but I never know whether to say Eve-ee how I would pronounce it or Eve-eh because that's what she's used to.

Besides what if it's not just a different accent but how they want it to be pronounced! Like I had a friend called Tanya and she was adamant it be pronounced Tawn-ya by everyone because that's how it was in her home accent.

Argh this name thing is a mine field!

It's a regional thing, anyone East Midlands is a 'eh' instead of 'ey'..!!