To dislike DD2's name?

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I ADORE DD1's name, Yasmin (leilah is her middle name). But I'm starting to dislike DD2's name, Sheharazade (her middle name is Ava, pronounced Ar-va)people are a bit when I say it and I'm starting to believe the passive aggressive 'joke' that 'she will be 10 before she can spell her own name'. FFS it's so rude! I had to about after her this morning as she ran off in the train station and somebody sniggered! I do sometimes call her Zsa Zsa or Ava but I'm starting to dislike her name and feel terrible! FWIW my DDs are half Iranian and look very DD2 looks very middle eastern so I think she will carry it off when she's older but the name is really starting to wear me down. Does anybody else feel like this about DC's names?

Why should anyone have to settle on a nickname? I have a very unusual name and have to keep correcting it multiple times but sorry I'm not going to be known by an abbreviated sound because it keeps the Jane's, Rachel's and Sarah's of this world happy. It's the name my mother chose for me and so I will use it.

Are you trying to say that 5 divorces, 10 lap dogs running around the mansion and wears a bad wig isn't something to aim for in life?

Lovely name OP, and I love Zsa Zsa and other suggested shortenings. I have possibly the only Persephone in South Devon so I get where you're coming from! We call her Percy day to day.

Another vote for Zadia. Love it!

It's not uncommon for people to have a nickname as their proper name. My cousin has always been the shortened version of her name, when she went to secondary school her parents requested it be changed on the register too.

It was only when she started her first job did she start using her real name.

I do not feel there is anything wrong with a nickname or abbreviated version being used if the parents and child like it. I can think of similar examples from my group of friends: Connie, Beth, Bill and so on.

I do however feel it's quite disrespectful to tell somebody that they "must" do this because the name in it's original format isn't one they are familiar with.

I agree with "Awomb"

Zadia sounds like a different name altogether, but Zada sounds like a short form and is just as pretty.

Sheharazade Goldsmith still lives in Devon I think (?) post divorce from Zac so you may not have the only one in Devon!!

That aside, you have given your dd an awesome name and one she will be thrilled to pieces with when she is older. Courage!! Who cares what the sniggerers think? They are rude and boring tossers whose children probably have the most unimaginably dull names as they lack either the imagination or the gumption to call them something a bit more interesting!!

I love Zadia

Zadia is really nice.

That is a beautiful name, we get the she will never be able to spell it with our dd's french name, but I just try to laugh with them. Zadia is lovely too. My stepsister has a full name but has never used it, always used a shortened version in school and outside, she is happy with it.
when she is older she will adore it, and it will be so much better than having the same old boring name everyone else has including me

Would Zara work as a nickname?

"Zada" also gives an indication of how to pronounce the full name. Zadia implies that the same sound is at the end of the name. (It isn't, is it? )

Yasmin and Zadia are wonderful names.

Go with Zadia - I'd even put that down on the forms if you can, make it really stick.

Or zade. Pronounced Zarder ?

It has a lot of syllables. It will get shortened at some point in her life so you may be best to choose how.

What about Hara?

Ooh it's gorgeous!!! She will be a grown woman for most of her life and when I hear her name I picture a very glam lady so I think it's great!!

Also, I know a Yasmine Leila!!! =O different spelling I THINK but omg amazing!!!

(She is a grown up with no younger sibs though!)

Your DD's name is absolutely beautiful! I think there are actually quite a few grownup Sheherazades in the uk and it has a very popular literary heritage, u can't imagine anyone struggling with it to be honest.
Please ignore the tits saying she'll never spell it. Just smile and say, well, she'll become very good at spelling won't she!
Can I suggest Zadie as a nn? As in the (stunning, ridiculously talented) novelist? It carries the essence of your little girl's name whilst being very sweet and easy. Please don't ever apologise for her name though. It's gorgeous! I bet she grows up to be just as striking and beautiful.

I have a long, foreign an unusual name. My family have tried to shorten it in various ways over the years - whatever you decide, stick to it. People will get used to it, you don't have to " westernise " it - I have been called a westernised name for the last 15 years ( my parents thought it sounded like a not very nice word in English) and come to hate it. Somebody somewhere will always dislike the name you picked- but so what? We can't all agree on everything. A stranger at a bus stop recently said DDs name was weird ( Anya) - I love her name, so not losing sleep over that.

Both your daughters have beautiful names :D

What does your DD think? My 3 yo has opinions about her name, so I'd expect a 4 yo to have opinions and to be able to choose their own shortened name (from a reasonable selection).

I was at school with an English one and everyone pronounced it Shez-rade. Not so glam in Blighty sadly, but the gal did ok in the end.

I used to know someone at work called Sheharazade, she was always called Sherry. I think it is a lovely name.

What does she want like being called as long as it isnt shezza you should ask her what she prefers. Im not keen on one of my dds name its a bit bland but was one of the few me and he could agree on.