regret my baby girl‘s name

Ariadne is a beautiful name. Surely, there is only one pronunciation?

She's 9 months, changing her name now is NOT a problem.

@lizye

How do YOU say her name?

I can't imagine anyone having a problem with her name , let alone several people. Is English not your first language? It's the only reason I can think of why others are struggling with it.

Honestly stick with it. I cannot understand why people are finding it so challenging - but that is their issue. It is a lovely name and there are no issues with its greek history.

9 months is fairly old to be changing names and I think you would probably live to regret it

I agree with others. At 9 months she will recognise her name so if you want to make it more recognisable Aria would be a good compromise.

I like different names 3/4 of my DC have different names and everyone mispronounces, I don't get it as they are pretty easy BUT I'm afraid I don't know how to pronounce your DDs name...

Stick with it it’s beautiful.

It's a gorgeous name - don't change it as she will love it as she gets older (I know a 14 YO one).
Call her Ari or Aria

I think it's a beautiful name, in fact I've just added it to my shortlist after reading it here! I would have been gutted if I'd found out my mum had changed my name to something plain because people couldn't be bothered to read my (beautiful) name correctly. Another vote for keeping it as it is.

It's a nice name. I wasn't familiar with it but took me a few moments to understand how to say it. I think the issue is that in English so many words aren't written exactly like they're pronounced, often with letters at the end which aren't pronounced, whereas this one quite helpfully is exactly as written.

I think the main issue with changing at 9 months is how you feel about it. I think babies are more adaptable. Will you be able to change and feel that it suits her now after using this name for months?

Also my daughters name is now annoyingly common and is three letters and people still fuck it up, mixing it up with other similar (because they're also three letters ) names or the masculine versions (doesn't help that I refuse to stick bows on her and she wouldn't let me anyway ) making it longer too.

My name has some extra letters in it and people miss pronounce it or misspell it but most people who matter know it and everyone else doesn't matter that much

I love Ariadne! Love mythology too!

Aria is a nice shortening and more common but still not very.

I read a book that had a character called Hippolyta (another Greek name) and I think she went by a shortening like Polly

Ariadne is beautiful as are a lot of Greek names and all useable. I would stick with it people will get there!

Arry Add Knee?

I would stick with Ariadne, it's beautiful, but if it's keeping you up at night change it.

If you really really want to change her name then do so.
Yes Clare and Clara are sweet names but there's nothing wrong with Ariadne and you can't have just chosen it because it's unusual.

You may find "problems" with other names (oh no, I'm worried Clare is too plain shall I change it. . . Oh no, Clara is really picking up in popularity as is Lara, shall I change it?) Etc.

If the main thing that's concerning you is other ppl having pronunciation issues correct them politely and everyone will move on.

Beautiful name, not difficult to pronounce, can’t imagine anyone would take offence at the use of a Greek goddess’s name??

Such a pretty name, don't change it

I can’t understand why these people you keep encountering would pronounce Ariadne as Adrian.

Love Ariadne

Just seen that you've explained further down, how odd people get it so wrong! It's not a tricky name at all in my opinion.

Op, I'm intrigued, how do people pronounce it? It doesn't seem the kind of name people would get wrong as it's phonetic

@lizye Greek gods and godesses are like fairy tales, not religion. No-one will mind you using the names. Anyone that knows the names will be pleased - they may say Ariadne wasn't even a godess, just a princess.

If the people getting your baby's name wrong are all medical people, it sounds like lockdown has meant you haven't had a group of people that got used to the name. Are you getting to any mum and baby groups? Do you have family round you, and do they say the name right? What does the baby's dad think?
Lastly, Adriane is a girl's name, also Adria , Adriana and Adrienne, so if someone reads the name wrong they may be dyslexic or need glasses but they aren't calling your dd a boy's name.

Are you okay posting at 4.30am? or are you in another country?

Ariadne Is a beautiful name. You might regret changing it if you came across someone else with that name in the future.