Are 5 syllable baby names pretentious?

@PrincessOfPreschool , I only realised when I saw it on here that it wasn't Alisha to rhyme with Trisha.

I had always liked the name. A-liss-y-a seems forced and Aleesha seems weird - Patrick Patricia, George Georgia, Olive Olivia, Victor Victoria, Alice Alison, Mark Marcia... so why Al-ee-sha?

Alexandrina is another option - Queen Victoria's real name.

@Helenbelena Can you not simply love long names?
Yes, but naming your child something like Clytemnestra might be out of place if your idea of culture is a pot of yoghurt.

@FlyingToniBoxes , You can't see the point? That's just a failure of cognition on your part though.
I can't see the point of calling a child something like Anastasia but never calling her anything other than Annie.

The point is obviously a combination of liking the long form and wanting the human being who will bare the name through their entire life, as baby, young child, older child, teen, young adult, mature adult and elderly person, to have options!
It's bear not bare. (bare means exposed, bear means carry)
Chances are she won't use the options.

@Threewordseightletters, I know no one who pronounces Olivia as three syllables with a ‘ya’ on the end.
It depends on accent. Sonia, for example, has 3 or 2 syllables in it.

An-NA -stah-ZEE-a, with emphasis on both NA and ZEE. This is the way it's said in Russia, where it may be most used. The Old English version is apparently Annice; I suspect that most modern Anastasias in the Anglophone world are due ultimately to the Grand Duchess of that name, or the woman who claimed to be her, but the pronunciation is nothing like the way she would have said it.

A-na-stah-see-uh is the pronunciation I like best, so it’s nice to see that it’s frequently used (even though I’d stress it differently).

I disagree with the PP who said that the chances are that a child won’t use the diminutives of their name. How many Rebeccas, Elizabeths and Victorias do you know who never go by a short form such as Becca, Liz or Vicky?

@EstoyRobandoSuCasa , A-na-stah-see-uh is the pronunciation I like best, so it’s nice to see that it’s frequently used (even though I’d stress it differently).
Which syllable do you stress?

I disagree with the PP who said that the chances are that a child won’t use the diminutives of their name. How many Rebeccas, Elizabeths and Victorias do you know who never go by a short form such as Becca, Liz or Vicky?
If you mean me, I didn't say they won't use the diminutives, I said they'd probably not use ones they don't normally get called.

How many Rebeccas, Elizabeths and Victorias do you know who never go by a short form such as Becca, Liz or Vicky?
Some. The point I was making was more that Liz might never call herself Lisa, Libby, Eliza, Lily, Beth, Betty, Elspeth or Bess, the Becca I know never uses Becky, and the Vicky I know is Vic or Vicky and never Tori.

OK that makes sense.

I would stress “stah” (or “stay”). I wouldn’t normally stress two syllables in the same name.

I have a Romanian neighbour called Anca who stresses both syllables of her name. She is annoyed that Brits tend to pronounce her name as “anchor”. We have no trouble with the individual sounds, but stressing both syllables just doesn’t fit English stress patterns.

The only way I can get it right is to picture her name as “Ann Carr”!