people pronouncing my baby's name the way I dont

most people don't go through life with a baby names book looking up how to pronounce names.

In this country the word 'elle' (French for 'she') is pronounced El. If you want it pronounced Ellie then you will simply have to tell each and every person you meet that that is how you want it pronounced. Same as with BIL's DP whose name is Briony but her family pronounce it Bree-ony. Up to them but don't get shirty with people if you choose to veer from the norm.

I think 'El' sounds nicer than 'Ellie' anyway.

I have always spelt my name differently to how it is spelt on my birth certificate. All my official documents are in "my" spelling of my name and not my BC one. The reason for this is that my Dad registered my birth and obviously didn't know how to spell my name (no-one spells it the way he did)!!!

I'm actually quite surprised at some of these responses as I know 2 little girls called Elle, pronounced Ellie! It's not common but it is an accepted pronunciation.

OP, you're getting a hard time here, there's time to change your DD's spelling to Ellie so there's no confusion, although I must say, Elle (El) is a gorgeous name in it's own right.

My DD has a name starting El, I was determined she'd be her full name, before she'd left hospital, DH was calling her Ellie and I must say, it suits a little toddler charging around the place!

If you want to call your DD Ellie, then put that on the birth certificate. Put the other way, if she is known as Ellie, but spelt Elle, she's going to have a lifetime of correcting the spelling - I have a name witha couple of different accepted spellings, usually people get it right but I've spent a lot of time on the phone to call centres explaining that I don't have an 'i' in my name, she's going to be doing exactly the same for her whole life! People will hear Ellie and write Ellie, not Elle.

Save her the bother, put the 'i' back in.

I used to go so school with a Sinead who insisted her name was Shanay...

You've chosen to use a very very unusual pronunciation. You either have to accept people will pronounce the name differently to you until you tell them otherwise or you need to change the spelling.

I was at school with a Sian pronounced Sea-anne too. This meant when I got to secondary school I was utterly confused by Sian pronounced Sian.

I never said it was right, in fact in my first post I said I thought it odd. I am just musing that it is possible OP has met an Elle pronounced Ellie and asumed it is an accepted pronunciation, rather than just being awkward.

I was at school with a girl whose name was spelled Sian, but she pronounced it see-ann. She would get quite irate with people making the 'mistake' of pronouncing it the accepted way. All you can do, I think, is just tell people they way you pronounce it, and hope they remember. Just don't get cross about it if it's the first time, because they're not doing anything wrong.

you're changing the rules of phonetics and expecting people to know what you've done?

You are asking for advice. My advice would be to change the spelling of her name to Ellie.

The only experience I have is that my youngest son has an unusual middle name (my father's name - from India) and as much as I would have liked to have used it as a first name, I knew it would be mispronounced, hence middle name not first name.

Spidertracker - honestly that sounds like someone making the same mistake or making up a name. I'm sure it isn't a unique situation, but nor is misspelling your baby's name and lumbering them with that for life.

I have to ask where you heard that it is also pronounced Ellie? (Have RTFT and can't see it mentioned)

Elle is much nicer, if I were you I'd stick with Elle and Ellie as a nn. However, I'm not you and it's totally your choice. We won't take the piss...

spider have you ever heard the saying 'two wrongs don't make a right*

It is actually irrelevant whether it's right or not, the fact is people will see Elle and call her El. If they see Ellie they will call her Ellie. Depends how difficult the OP wants to make her own life and her DD's really doesn't it :)

I'm a teacher and a little girl in my class is called Elle (pronounced Ellie). I hadn't come across it before and would have called her Elle (El) had I not been told in advance. To be honest most people who meet her know her name before they see it written down so just pronounce it correctly anyway. She will have to get used to being assertive and correcting people in jobs interviews when she's older but it will just become part of her life, I suppose. Quite a few people have this with surnames (I did before I got married). It was mildy annoying but no more than that really.

Everyone calls her El

She is two and a half weeks old.

Decide now if you want her to be called Elle - El or Ellie. If you want people to call her Ellie, then spell her name Ellie. If you don't care how they say it, then what is the problem?

To be fair to the OP. She hasn't made it up, as I said I taught a girl named Elle pronounced Ellie 10 years ago. She would be around 18 or 19 now.
It is unusual but not unprecedented.

Ellie , ime, is a nickname for Eleanor.

I think you should just change the spelling of her name. Elle IS pronounced el - that's all there is to it.

What gave you the impression that Ellie is a known pronunciation of Elle? Did you read it somewhere?

How old is your baby? Is it too late to change her name?

Elle is much nicer name than Ellie, OP.

I named my dd Sharon, but I pronounce it Darren, are people being unreasonable by mispronouncing it on purpose?

Ok, just kidding, but it's the same thing!

Can you imagine how annoying this is going to be for her?

You might as well call her Claire or something.

Elle is pronounced "Elle". Ellie is a different name.