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Anybody got a daughter called Alexa

112 replies

Chriss82 · 27/01/2019 18:36

I know I asked this before Christmas but we are getting more pressure about this. Our daughter is called Alexa before the amazon thing came our and we were thinking about changing her name for obvious reasons but we stayed firm with it as it is. However we have come under pressure from other parents and friends to consider changing it, which if we had to it would be Alexandra as its close to what it is now. We have even been called cruel for not doing it! We have had one parent apologise for the way her son might speak to our daughter as he is very rude to Alexa at home....Has this world gone mad?? Our daughter will be 3 in a few weeks and this is causing us so much worry at home as the next years are crucial to her finding her identity.

Has anyone with a daughter called Alexa really finding it so much of an issue? So sorry to ask again but if we have to act it will have to be soon, thanks again.

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tammytoby · 27/01/2019 19:33

You really can't change a 3 year olds name because of some technical thing with the same name! Ridiculous and not fair imo.

kaytee87 · 27/01/2019 19:32

Missed that your daughter is almost 3. It would be cruel to change her name now. How confusing for her.
Im actually not sure you'd be allowed anyway.

WomanWithAltitude · 27/01/2019 19:32

By the time she's an adult Alexas will be old tech (and hopefully people will have woken up to how silly it is to give a corporation unrestricted access to their private life). This isn't worth changing her name over.

SinceYouAskMe · 27/01/2019 19:32

I’d personally tend to shorten it to Alex or Lexie or her initials if they work in the short term. In a few years the world may have moved on from the Amazon device, in which case she could revert to the full name, or it might have become ubiquitous in which case she’d stick with the nickname.

kaytee87 · 27/01/2019 19:31

The amazon echo has been around for a couple of years. How old is your daughter?!

SemperIdem · 27/01/2019 19:30

Would I call a daughter Alexa now, post Alexa Chung, the Mulberry bag naked for her and the more recent Amazon device? No.

Would I have named a daughter that name whilst the other two existed but before the Amazon product? Yes

Would I change the name of an almost 3 year old because of the Amazon product? Absolutely fucking not.

Whoever is suggesting you do is an idiot. She’s not a budgie, she’s a small child who knows her name. It would be completely unreasonable to change her name, in my opinion

tammytoby · 27/01/2019 19:27

Please don't change Alexa's name! It's a lovely name and has been for a long time.

Can't you change amazon's alexa/echo to any name you want?

dalmatianmad · 27/01/2019 19:26

*for the sake of some

dalmatianmad · 27/01/2019 19:25

Please don't change her name or the same of some gadget!

It's a beautiful name for a little girl.

HappyGoLuckyGo · 27/01/2019 19:23

Ridiculous. Please don’t change your daughter’s lovely name. Maybe other parents should teach their children some manners Hmm

Chriss82 · 27/01/2019 19:19

I know, I never thought out of all the worry's of being a parent her name would be one of them! We had one parent say their little boy can say his own name or anything else apart from Alexa as that what's they are also shouting!!

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Newsername · 27/01/2019 18:38

WTH? Really? Hmm

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