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Help- baby over due fretting about name choice

56 replies

Primrose16 · 25/12/2018 23:24

So we are having a surprise so need both girl and boy names. Boy sorted. Girl we were going for Ayda Florence. I like 4 letter first names, longer middle name. We already have a Isla Primrose. Robbie Williams wife has thrown me as she pronounces it Ey-da. I wanted it to be pronounced Aya. How would you pronounce it please- is there a right and wrong. Quick help I’m 40+4

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ThatPeskyElf · 25/12/2018 23:30

Ah just seen your update

ThatPeskyElf · 25/12/2018 23:30

People will pronounce it how you tell them to pronounce it
I know a Diana whose name is pronounced Deanna, no one bats an eyelid

Though I think pronouncing it Ai-dah weather than Aya (unless that was a typo) will make it sound different from Isla when you’re shouting their names up the stairs because they ate your dairy milk aged 14

Primrose16 · 25/12/2018 23:29

That’s Ada- not Aya. Can’t correct original post

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celtiethree · 25/12/2018 23:27

Tbh as pp said too close to Isla in pronounciation.

Shylo · 25/12/2018 23:27

Aya with no ‘d’ sound at all? If so that’s not how I read the name at all - looking at it I’d have said the same as Ayda Williams

Loopytiles · 25/12/2018 23:25

It will often be pronounced eye-da, and is too similar to Isla.