Anybody got a daughter called Alexa

Honestly OP you need to assert yourself and tell your 'concerned' friends to go jump in a lake. Your child's name is absolutely none of their business. It's really not that big of a deal.

Why are they telling you these things??? Why is someone else so invested in your daughters name that they keep talking to you about this?

I have friends who have used names I don’t like for their children. Never in a million years would I let on - it’s only on anonymous Internet forums I would say which names I don’t like

The people who are calling you selfish and implying you would be bad parents if you didn't change your three year old's name are trying to manipulate you - please don't let them!

Personally, I'd give short shrift to anybody who tried that shit with me. It's her name, she was named before the device and anybody who can't tell the difference between a child and a computer is not somebody I want to be around.

It's a lovely name.

I grew up with a surname that meant I got teased a lot. I got over it, so did everybody else.

She might well decide she wants to shorten to Lexie or Allie, Alex or whatever in time - if the Amazon device is still popular in future, the "issue" would self-resolve. In the meantime, call her whatever you as her parents have decided to name her and everybody who is a twat about out it can fuck off.

3 does seem too old do change her name - it's hers now.

You / she could shorten it to Alex or Ali dad to day as someone said.

The parent pretending it means his son his licence to be rude is an arsehole though. Why's he countenancing his son being rude at all? Even when instructing an electrical device there's no advantage in being "very rude" and anyone encouraging their child to be "very rude" in any context what do ever is almost certainly an absolutely unpleasant type of person.

I work with an Alexa in her early 20s and have never heard anyone liken her to a gadget The worst thing about her name is that it's too close to Alicia and Alissa, and we have similar aged colleagues with those names too, which makes the potential for a mix up too high!

You can ask the Dorset cottage owners to change the name that their listening device repaonds to.

Alexa is such a gorgeous name! Of course if it's causing her issues later in life you can make a decision together as to alternatives but until then, leave as is. Such a lovely name.

I am staggered by this.

Yes it’s not ideal and probably to a child calling out “Alexa! Turn the heating on!” Is quite funny the first few times and then will get very old, very quickly. But the fact that you have fallen out with friends about this? And that a parent uses that as an excuse for his child to be rude? (How about you know, teach your child that children and electrical objects are not the same even if they have the same name?!) This is just crazy and so unfair on you.

The people who have felt the need to discuss it with you sound horrendous.

You need to mix with different people - maybe some with more manners and a higher IQ.

Have friends who called their daughter, "Alexa", but she must be late thirties now. I've not known anyone called that, apart from her. There was a character in an American soap called Alexa which gave them the idea :-). However it is a nice name though nowadays one of those robot things that does things for you and speaks is called an Alexa, so I don't think I'd choose it. What's wrong with Alexandra, Alex for short? Classic.

WTF? Wouldn't even cross my mind that Alexa is out now due to some Google tech. It's a great name.

How about calling her Alex etc. as a nickname, and then waiting to see how things go?

If the device continues to go from strength to strength and you are getting really fed up, you could consider changing the BC to Alexandra etc.

I think you need to change your fuckwit friends not your DD’s name.

And that parent needs to teach her son the difference between a person and an electronic device if she thinks it might cause him to be a bullying little sod

Agree with this.

Don't change her name!

DD(7) has a close friend called Alexa apparently they’re getting married when they grow up no one has ever said a thing about her name and i had never even made the connection between the two until I read this thread. Alexa is a lovely name and those people sound batshit.

God, I'm amazed people are being so rude!

Alexa is a lovely name. If it's something that bothers your DD when she's older she could choose to shorten it to Alex, or whatever she fancies. You certainly shouldn't feel obliged to preemptively change her name because other parent's are CFs.

So you should strip away your dds name because another parent has a rude child. I've definitely heard it all, now.

I have an Alexa, age 11. So named well before Amazon Alexa or Alexa Chung came on the scene. It was an almost unheard of name when we chose it. She is not teased about it at all. I think the people telling you you are cruel not to change it are obnoxious and very rude. As someone else has already said, it will be obsolete tech before long anyway. Please don't change her name, ignore the idiots.

I love the name Alexa, it's what I wanted for my girl but hubby didn't like it so we went with another name.

I have since thought oh imagine we had called her Alexa purely because of the amazon thing but it will not be around I bet in a few years time.

I would 100% not change her name, especially as she is 3 and knows it. You liked it when you named her, ignore any comments, it will pass and you will be glad you didn't change her name.

She could be Alex or Ali for school - if you and she want. Or another nickname. But help her be proud of her name.

Definitely don’t change it...and tell the people commenting to mind their own f**king business! Cruel for not changing your three year olds name, behave! And that parent needs to teach her son the difference between a person and an electronic device if she thinks it might cause him to be a bullying little sod. Don’t change it! Maybe just call her the diminutive Allie or Lexie if it bothers you but don’t do it for anyone else.

Don’t change it if you like it. To stop any teasing/bad behaviour Alexandra could work. However I think the name still makes the machine active, maybe Alex would as well.

She's three, it would be too weird for her to have to change her name. It's unfortunate that the Amazon device has become such a ubiquitous thing but hopefully within five years people will be on to the next thing and the Alexa device will be more or less redundant.

Tell people to mind their own bloody business.

When I say “shorten it” I’m not talking about actually changing her birth certificate, just shifting to use a nickname. Lots of children are called by a whole range of names and nicknames over the course of their childhoods: everyone in my family I answers to at least four.