Girls names... HELP!

[Winelovingmama]

I’m 38 weeks pregnant today and we can’t decide on a name... I just want to make a decision. We’ve narrowed it down to Sophia or Zadie. Two very different names. One fairly popular and one more unique. Will people constantly get it wrong and think we’re saying Sadie if we call her Zadie? Would love your thoughts please x

Possibly not helpful but Sadie is lovely! - nicer than Zadie I think?

I love the name Sophia

I prefer Zadie but agree Sadie is cute

Or Safia

Sadie is lovely

How about Zafia

I like both

Sophia would probably be the most straightforward of the two to live with. Zadie could be misheard a lot as Sadie. I have a name that is often misheard as another though and it doesn't bother me.

I like Sophia and Zadie.

I don't like the name Sadie. It's just my personal opinion but it seems like a negative name to me as it has the words sad and die in it.

Sophia is boring. Sadie is a nickname for Sarah. Not sure about Zadie, maybe it's short for Zarah?! The writer Zadie Smith would always be referenced but she's a good role model I think

I would choose Zadie

Much more interesting than Sophia and nicer than Sadie

You might get the odd person who gets mixed up and calls her Sadie but to my ear they sound quite different so I doubt it will be a huge problem (and very obvious when you see it written down that it is not Sadie)

Is it Zad-ee or Zay-Dee?

Safia is pretty

It’s pronounced zay-dee as in same as Sadie but with a Z not an S.

Very helpful thank you. I agree I think Sophia would be the ‘safe’ slightly boring option but there’s something about Zadie that I really love 💕 It’s actually an old English name from the 1800s, I found it whilst looking at ‘Vintage baby girl names’ not short for anything. Zadie Smith is an amazing author so I agree @Davros not a bad role model!

Zadie it is! Lovely

I love both, but would choose Zadie. It's less common than Sophia and it's so much nicer than Sadie. It's surprising what a difference one letter makes.

Love Sophia- Love Sadie- but Zadie doesn’t sound like it should be a girls name. It sounds like a descriptive word like “ooh I feel zadie today”.

Love Zadie.

Its also the name of a brilliant author

I love Zadie but be prepared for your dd not to look like a 'Zadie'. We wanted to call our dd Briony, but when she was born she just didn't look like a Briony. It took us a couple of weeks of living with her before we came up with the name that suited her.

I prefer Sophia to Zadie.

Agree with @TweetUsOnFacebook

Dd was Jemima, until I saw her. With hindsight it is very difficult to name someone you have not seen.

A week later we found her name.

Prefer zadie though.

Zadie. Sophia is lovely but Zadie is interesting and a bit different.

Also -I've noticed that while Sophias seem to be ten a penny and it sounds boring and fussy - Sophie seems MUCH less frequently used and has a simpler, more classic vibe.

Zadie
Sadie
Sophie

all lovely

Sophia - boring

Sadie is a nickname for Sarah

So? It’s still a name in its own right.

I like both OP. They’re both inoffensive and pretty sounding.

Zadie over Sophia, I like unusual names