To give our DD a name that me and her dad pronounce differently?

[TheYellowHill]

One of us pronounces it Vi-uh-lut and the other Vi-lut...

Can we still use it?

Yes!
I have a similar name, it is only recently that I’ve actually realised people pronounce it differently.
Don’t over think it!

Yes. One of you will sound lazier than the other though!

I really don’t think it matters, she will hear people throughout her life pronouncing it both ways.

Yes

Universal 'Vi' will come in handy

Yes, we have a Cameron and some call him cam-Ron and other's call him cam-e-Ron

Doesn't phase him and he's 6

DH and I call our DS by different names! He answers to both and to his full name at school.

I have an Irish name which is pronounced differently in different areas of the country. My parents are from opposite ends of the country so they pronounced my name differently (it is significantly different) and it hasn’t impacted me at all.

I knew a woman who thought she and her husband had picked the same name for their newborn son but when she heard him on the phone announcing to his family the birth and babies name he was saying the name so completely different than she did it didn’t sound like the same name at all, and so she changed it right there on the spot to their second choice. Which I thought was a much nicer name.

Some people call me Ee-thile and others E-thil.
Wish I'd been Butyl, everyone pronounces that the same.

My daughter is Violet and I say it Vi-lut.

Only one person has ever called her Vi and they were corrected immediately.

I’d rather have Letty than Vi!!!

How do you think parents manage when they come from different countries and speak different native languages? Or when one is English and one is American or Canadian/Australian/Irish/Scottish/Welsh....

I have this with my parents! I also never noticed they pronounce my name differently until I was in my 30's!
So, not a problem

I love Helena, as in Her-lane-a, not Hel-en-a.

We have a Fin - lay, Fin - lee - he answers to both and said quickly they both sound the same

My brother says Dan-yell and his partner says Danni-Elle. They can’t even hear themselves saying it different

I call my son Zak-are-eye-yah, DH calls him Zak-are-ree-yah. He responds to both.

I think it really depends whether it will bother either of you.
We had Daniel on our shortlist but I rejected it because I didn't know how I wanted to pronounce it. DH couldn't really see the difference between the two ways (Danny-ull and Dan-yull)

^Some people call me Ee-thile and others E-thil.
Wish I'd been Butyl^

Glasgow university chemistry department! Who else in the world says E-thil?

My son has a name that he and everyone else pronounces differently to the way I pronounce it. It is from a non-English language (he's named after someone important to me), and sometimes it grates that it is being pronounced (ever so slightly) incorrectly, but that's just life, and he copes fine with it.

I liked Naomi, but I pronounce it Nay-OH-mi. My ExP pronounced it NYE-omi. Didn't go with it as sounded to different for me, both pronunciation and emphasis.

Friends of ours are from the extreme north and extreme south of England and had to veto several names because they said them totally differently

My mum and dad both pronounce my name differently (Although Dad is forrin so accents come into play a bit). I don’t mind.

For what it’s worth I think the name Violet is lovely...

This is why Sophia came off our list quickly - I say it to rhyme with Fire (my Gran's sister-in-law was Aunty Phia and she was a cracking woman!) but DH kept saying it to rhyme with Fear (even when I explained). I couldn't imagine spending the next however many years correcting people...

Glasgow university chemistry department! Who else in the world says E-thil?

Practically everyone, surely? I've never heard of an Ethel being pronounced Ee-thil.

My parents pronounce my name differently. I didn't really notice until I was in my 20s. DFs way now really annoys me! Luckily he tends to use my nickname.