I regret my daughter's name :-(

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It's Esmé.. (ez-May) she gets es - me all the time.. there's quite a few others.. I just wish I'd called her something else

Correct people when they pronounce it incorrectly.
Change her name?

It's a really beautiful name and I agree that you should gently correct people who mis pronounce.

How old is she?

Beautiful name - I really wouldn't change it! Just keep correcting people.

It's a lovely name. People will learn

She's 18 months now. I really struggled to think of a name that I loved.

It's such a lovely name, people will learn how to say it x.

It's a nice name.

Love the name. Just correct the people who say it wrong.

It’s a lovely name - it’ll be fine! I know an Esme and have never heard it incorrectly pronounced- it’ll get better! I regret calling my son Jack as every other boy I know his age (exaggerating slightly) is also called jack 😭

I love Esme. It’s a lovely name. Is it the mispronunciation that you hate? If so, correct them every time.

Does she have a middle name she could be known by instead?
People pronounce my name wrong all the time but tbh im past caring. I don't even bother to correct them.

I'd probably just try and make peace with the Esme pronunciation. It's going to be a lot of correction and irritation otherwise. If people aren't French speakers the accent might not mean anything to them.

As she gets older and can say her own name to people they will get it right. Maybe as she is still in infancy people are seeing it written down more and assuming the incorrect pronunciation.

It’s a beautiful name but I understand your irritation. One of my dd has a name that an be pronounced two different ways and it was really important to us that we recognised that and liked/could accept both pronunciations. Luckily she is a gobby madam/confident speaker (depending on the day) who is quite happy to say ‘I’m not Esmee I’m Ezmaaayyy!’ But I can see it could be annoying.

It's a nice name. Does it matter if people don't pronounce it as you want them to? You know how it should be and when people ask just introduce her using the pronunciation you like.
Many names can be pronounced in different ways and when she is older I'm sure she will have her own views about it!
Just enjoy her and her lovey name.

Nah she'll love it when she's older. It's perfect.

Realistically though I’d probably keep it. Correct anyone she sees regularly (nursery, friends etc) and how often could strangers get it wrong, because you’ll surely be introducing her?

It’s one of those names that is always going to be mispronounced, correct people and she will be correcting them herself by the time she’s in school.

I can see how if you live in the north this would be an issue. I am from Lincolnshire and had a friend Esme and my dad always pronounced is Essmeh no amount of corrections could get him to sai Ezmay same with Johanna (Joanna) alway with the Jo Hanna no dad it's Joanna the his silent.

You can change it if you want. To be honest, I would assume Esmé was a boy, with that masculine ending. Otherwise, you just need to correct people.

I have an Esme (es-me) and used to get the Esmay pronunciation! It definitely gets better as they become more their own person - when everyone's heard you bellowing their name across the park a few times they'll get used to it...

It is a beautiful name, but I know exactly how you feel - my other child has a tricky-to-pronounce name and I probably would have given them a different name if I'd known how hard people would find it.

My eldest has the same name . She started school this year and there has only been one boy in her class that has mispronounced it . She’s fast to correct him and shouts it’s EzMAY !!! She loves her name won’t let anyone give her a nickname or anything .
My middle child has a name I wouldn’t have thought could be mispronounced and amazingly it’s said wrongly a lot more .

I thought Esmé was pronounced ez-me (like Chloé)
Esmè would have the ez-may sound?

I could very well be entirely wrong though

It's a lovely name regardless and once you correct people they should remember