argh names names...I'm 22 weeks pregnant & feel like I just can't win. I want to name our girl after my recently deceased father's mother as I'm very attached to that side of my family which has almost totally died out & it's a family tradition to use family names. If I tell people I want to name her after my grandmother they think that's boring & unoriginal. When I tell them the 'Scandinavianised' version of her name I'd like to use (which I think is lovely) they look at me exasperated & say stuff like 'can't you just use her name as a middle name and give her a lovely 'normal' name instead?' :(
Quick background: DP is Norwegian, I live in Norway and DD will be brought up in Norway so name must be 'Norwegian-friendly'.
So - my grandmother's name was Edith Beatrice and she used to be known as 'Edie' or 'Dede' (pronounced 'Deed') and also 'Edie Beatty' all of which I love. However - Edith and Edie in Norway is pronounced like 'Eddie' and 'Eddith' which I don't like for a girl (and also my cousin just had a girl called Edith). There is a name here 'Ida' - pronounced 'eeda' which I love but which is VERY common (c. 3 in each class). I would like my daughter to be known as 'Edie' or 'Dede' like her grandmother so I either use Ida and use 'Idi' (so she'd have a common name in Norway and all the UK relatives will call her 'Eye-da', which I don't like so much) or I thought 'Dida' or 'Dide' (both pronounced 'Dee-da'; variations of the Scandinavian name 'Ditte') which I love and enabling me to use nicknames of 'Dede' or DeeDee (although I'd spell it the Norwegian way - Didi). This latter name 'Dida' when I revealed to my bessie (I'm so set on it) provoked frowns, no positive comments and mild bewilderment which upset me more than I expected. 'Edie' is so popular in the UK at the moment I didn't think this was an 'out of step' sort of name. It's all a bit upsetting as I'm so set on naming her after my grandmother and DP's all for it (he has 2 girls already so it's kind of up to me - as long as his family can pronounce it and it doesn't mean anything strange in Norwegian).
Thoughts?