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You do realize she will be called Ee-Marie all her life don't you? Why do parents do this to children. Not only are you giving her an odd name, then you make it worse by giving it a unique spelling that no one will be able to remember and she will be called the wrong name all of her life .
If you go with Emoreigh she will be Ee More Ree
I'd have said Ee-More-Ray.
Give her a normal name with a normal spelling. The desire for it to be unique is your and your wife's desire to be special not a desire to give your daughter a good name.
Isn't being a parent grand? Wondering what effect the name you choose will have on your child's future could keep you awake nights!
Or just give your kid a normal name with a normal spelling and don't sweat it.
The parents of little Typhonee and Phredurik are the ones who should worry about how their kids' name will affect their kids, and yet they are the very ones who won't.
The long and short of it seems to be, if you spell a name uniquely people will think you are ignorant and uneducated. Even if you're not. And if people pronounce or spell a common name incorrectly, they will come across as the same. I have to correct/spell my name all the time. (EMILY) Because of people that chose to be special snowflakes and give their kids unusual spellings. And yes, I do think they are ignorant and uneducated when they mess up my name. Sorry, that's just how it is.
We have a daughter with a unique name that is difficult to pronounce when someone is trying to read it. It is a somewhat common name in Europe, but all but unheard of in the US. We also chose the less common spelling. She is an overacheiver. When we went to various awards dinners and cereemonies and they got to first place and the announcer just stood there staring at the paper in terror, we started cheering and appluding, horrified stare and stuttering = you won!
I have asked her if she disliked her name. She said there were times when she wished she had a "normal" name, but most of the time she loved having a unique name.
My daughter's name is Adele. You'd think that would be pretty simple, but it's not. It's not a common name, but it's not THAT unusual, either, just old-fashioned. Southerners say AY-dell. Others have tried AD-a-lee or or A-DEAL. To make it worse, she has a terrible last name--hard to spell, hard to pronounce, easy to make fun of--that I ditched for those very reasons when I divorced her father. (My original last name is an easy, fairly common, English name that you can only screw up if you're a complete moron!) I used to tell my daughter that when she grew up, she could ditch the last name and just be known by her first name, since it's fairly underused.
Thankfully, a couple of years ago, along came this singer who did just that, and now everyone pronounces my daughter's name correctly.
Imari is a well-known kind of Japanese porcelain. Do you really want to name a child for a plate or a pot?(although many a little boy has been named "Clay" without incident...).
OP's baby is six months old. I wonder what her name is?
What would be more interesting is for the poor kid to come back in 20 years and tell us if she was ever able to find a job with a terrible name like that.
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