Pronouncing baby's name wrong

My DDs got a friend who called her little boy Louis....Oh that's gorgeous, I said, I love "loo-eee", she looked at me in horror and said "it's pronounced Lewis". I despair. Why saddle a child with a name that everyone is going to say wrong for its entire life

Surely it's up to her parents how her name is pronounced?

It's not really for you to tell them.

Roll with it, maybe one day she will find out. Annay is super incorrect as a pronunciation, clearly they did not do a lot of research into it.

I once knew a girl whose parents called her 'Chardonnay', unfortunately they did not know how to spell it, so they spelled it in a way it would/should read as 'Shardeen', and she was always upset people would get that wrong by reading her name.

I would say an ay es, but once I was doing a marketing campaign with Aden + anais and in their brand guidelines doc that they sent over they said it’s pronounced an-nay for their brand! Which surprised me but apparently that’s the pronounciation they officially use.

Definitely don’t “correct” the parents as that will come across very rude. We had a teacher who refused to pronounce the EE sound with Zoe and Chloe as the girls didn’t have the dots on the e, so she insisted they had to be called as one syllable zo and Chlo and Just came across as a nutter and a bit of a twat being so pedantic!

My parents pronounce my (French) name differently. Not differently from the world at large, differently from each other.
I tend to use a diminutive.
It didn't bother me as a child, as I thought it was a regional variation - like bath and Barth or castle and car-sel. They were in love, married and living together when I was born (and still). The mind boggles how they got through the 'what shall we call our baby' chat without realizing they were saying it differently.
No one knows, I don't use my full name in the family!

This is the first I'm seeing this name, I am seriously struggling to see how anybody could get "annay" out of that o.O

Anyway I'd passive-aggressively go "hello anais. OH SORRY I MEAN annay"

It’s pronounced An-ay-is, after the French author Anais Nin.

No, it isn't. Listen to the pronunciation 40 secs into for Anaïs Anaïs.

Oh dear. It doesn't seem like they put much thought/ did much research. They are going to get so fed up with correcting people.

My real name was always answered with "what? Who?" So much so i haven't used that name since I was a teenager. There's nothing more embarrassing/confidence knocking when you're young. I just wanted a NORMAL name. That's why my children will/have classic, easy to spell/pronounce names. Anyway, I digress...

I would have said Anais with an 's'.

My dd has a grave accent. Its always forgotten. It changes her whole name. I always remind the school to put it on, even by hand.

My kids called the perfume Anus-Anus. Didn't fancy it after that.

Argh. That's painful, especially if they have gone to the trouble of using the diaeresis. If they had ignored it then the spelling Anais would at least be correctly pronounced 'annay' in French, even if it isn't actually a name.

How old is baby? Have they registered the birth? If they are set on the pronunciation 'annay' then they should probably spell it Anais. Anaïs is unequivocally 'ann-eye-eese'.

They should drop the two dots if they dont want it pronounced the French way.

It would bug me. I have a similar thing with someone I know who spells her child's name wrong. She even posted up on Facebook about it saying she sees it spelt this way (the correct way) but prefers it this way (incorrect). Load of her friends tell her 'you go with what you like, she's your baby'. I pointed out tactfully that if you chose and unusual (wrong) spelling she will spend her life correcting people. She went with the wrong spelling. It's not like an alternative spelling it's like getting i and e the wrong way round. There's no point correcting her. Some people will stick with their misguided thing no matter what.

Anus OMG!!!!

NO I would say nothing at all as you will just get their backs up and make yourself look a tit. Pronounce theirs child’s name how they have chosen and wish.

When a new baby called Anais started in the baby room at work, the staff member didn't know how to pronounce it either
Which is why she announced to the whole room that Anus' mum had arrived
😂😂😂😂😂😂

It’s not pronounced Annay or An-eye-ees!

It’s pronounced An-ay-is, after the French author Anais Nin.

My 8yr old is called Esme, which also originates from France but we decided to drop the accent over the last e, and pronounce it Es-mee rather than the French Es-may. Loads of people still call her Es-may though, doesn’t really bother me but bugs the shit out of her!!

Such a pretty name when pronounced correctly but don't like Annay. I wouldn't say anything personally, but the parents will spend a lot of time correcting people.

yikes - nope, don't say a word! totally upto them. My name is often pronounced wrongly (modern way / old fashioned) only correct if I can be bothered - am about to be introduced to someone. They will deal with it in time!

It's really cringeworthy but you absolutely can't say anything! The poor kid is saddled with it now, they won't change the pronunciation because a friend of the family says so.

With a name like that I highly doubt that she will ever find herself a large francophone community/people who actually speak properly. If that's how they want to pronounce it then humour them.

y ok!!! You sound lovely

They picked that name because they like their pronunciation, I wouldn't bother

I also have a name that can be pronounced a number of ways, most people use a different pronunciation to mine and yes, it's a PITA, but seriously, it's what my parents chose and nobody elses business to decide that they're wrong....

It's An-nay-ees. A French name. Annay? Fucking halfwits.