Not told anyone but....

[JulyOrAugustThatIsTheQuestion]

.....our names are now officially sorted..........I think.

I did have a wobble earlier today due to an article being in a paper, but I think we're happy

Girl - Eidith Lily (Eidi for short)
Boy - Seth Lucas

I'm hoping that I should be safe from other children in the class having the same name........???

[mathanxiety]

I like Edyta too, Lily311

[Lily311]

P.s I know a couple of girls called Edyta (Polish spelling), I really like it

[Lily311]

I don't know any Seth or Lucas in SW London so clearly not as popular. As for Eidith-if you like it, go for it. My cousin is Edit without the h, she quite likes that it's different.

[hightrees]

Glad you're still here OP - hang in there for another 2 weeks (39 weeks!).

Haudyerwheesht - can you reveal your children's names? So interesting.

[superjobeespecs]

agree with mathanxiety with the pronounciation eye-dith thats what i first thought of, same with eidi being like heidi.

seth is great and since seth on emmerdale is long gone and there was a seth on the oc its more cool than it used to be [hsmile] i like seth.

[thursday]

Edith is lovely, as is Edie for short. Eidith is just pointless complication imo and pleased you're reconsidering. i'd have no problem with giving my children an unusual name that needed spelling to people, but i wouldnt give them a weird spelling of a name that everyone knows. if the name is too boring for you, pick another, dont vajazzle it.

Seth is an excellent name. i know about 3 little Seths around the country, and i didnt go for Edith because someone i know has an Edie.

[mathanxiety]

Edith is lovely, and the nn Edie too.

The Eidith spelling would make me pronounce it Eye-dith, with Eidi looking like Heidi without the H. Your possible DD will be special enough without an odd spelling for her name. Eedith might be better if you insist on something 'unique' but I don't see the necessity of this trend.

Seth is nice, very NYish imo-- not a name I would choose myself but nothing wrong with it. I think Lucas is nicer..

[freerangeeggs]

Seth Lucas and Edith Lily are both absolutely beautiful. You clearly have very good taste.

However, I instantly thought Eidith was a typo. I don't think the extra 'i' in any way makes the name more attractive - in fact, I think it detracts from the simplicity of the name which is one of its best features IMO.

I agree that there are names with weirder spellings. One of my favourite names for a boy is Ruaridh, which would no doubt cause endless difficulties. However, that's the way the name is spelled. It doesn't look pretentious or try-hard - there's only one spelling, and that's it. Eidith, on the other hand, looks like a deliberate attempt to be different. Your thought process is very obvious and people will roll their eyes at it.

If you want to be 'different', choose a really unusual name - don't take a well-known name and spell it funny.

Don't believe everything you read in baby name books - most of them are crap. I studied onomastics at university and I can assure you that most of the name-related information in books and on the internet is utter nonsense.

Good luck!

[Haudyerwheesht]

I thought you'd made a typo with eidith - it looks really odd and 'try hard' and just wrong imo.

Seth is lovely but yes, quite popular.

Fwiw my dc have really unusual names but they aren't difficult to spell and I think that makes them a bit easier for us and them.

I can understand you not especially caring about what other people think but I think you will when she is born and all your cards are ' congratulations on the birth of edith' or someone rings you up and says 'how's eyedith?'. These things matter more when baby is here.

[TheMadonnaWithTheBigBoobies]

It sounds like your mind is made up tight tbh! I do agree with the oddness of Eidith - I'm of the ilk of if it ain't broke and all that jazz ... I would say though that DS has two Edith's in his school. One is an Edi (pronounced Eeeedi) and the other is an Eddi.

Seth is fab however

[SchrodingersMew]

I have a name that is misspelled. I hate it. I have spent my whole life trying to spell it out for people and my name being confused with another similar name.

Seth is lovely though and was one of my possible choices.

[BoojaBooja]

Eidith also reads as "Eye-dith" to me.

I went to school with a few Seths, who all seemed to be farm-hands. Reminds me of Cold Comfort Farm.

[jafina]

Seth is lovely and I can confirm that I don't know ANY so get in there first (sw London).

The whole Edith spelling thing seems to have been well sorted by all and sundry but will just add my 2p that you should definitely stick with the normal spelling. I have an unusual first name but it is the standard spelling and I very rarely have to spell it. I do have to spell my slightly different married surname ALL the time and it does my head in. Don't subject your poor dd to that if you can help it!!

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

Lucas is much much much nicer than Seth. Seth is awfully lispy and and if your child or his friends have a lisp he'll be Theff.

Glad you've seen sense on Edith. :)

[meditrina]

I tried googling "Eidith" - it said "do you mean Edith?"

It's nowhere near well enough established as a variant for you/your DD to escape the myriad assumptions (listed upthread) about it. In particular, the sight-rhyme with Heidi, and the established pronunciation of names such as Eileen, do support the "eye" pronunciation when people meet this name for the first time (and that will mean everyone, really). But I'm sure people (well most people) will be sufficiently polite and socially adept in RL that their reaction won't show. And perhaps by the time your DD is 40ish, this variant might become established (if enough people use it),

Edith BTW is a lovely name.

[pranma]

I love Edith-the only one I know is a beautiful Swiss teenager-please dont mess with the spelling.
Seth and Lucas are also lovely names I know a couple of little boys named Lucas but no Seths.

[ragged]

I don't know anyone called Seth, Lucas or Edith (of any age).
Lily is very common, though I expect you knew that.
A lot of Muslim people will presume it's somehow Islamic, like someone said.
My first thought was that you said it like "Aye-dith" or "Ay-dith", or that it was Irish and therefore probably pronounced like "Smitzah" . At any rate, I'd thoroughly butcher saying it more than once, knowing me.
My kids have boring conventional names with boring conventional spellings for a reason.

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

Eedith is an uncommon way to spell Edith. It isn't right, but it is ucommon.
Eid is also a festival in Arabia, if you call your Eidith she could be mistaken for someone coming back from the hajj.
Call your DS Duncan or Adrian or Gavin. All normal names properly spelled.

[Greythorne]

Eidith is a really odd spelling. I think you will not just be lumbering your putative DD with a lifetime of spelling her name, but also a lifetime of correcting pronunciation. She may not thank you, esp when there is a perfectly good and accepted spelling which everyone recognises.

[Pancakeflipper]

Pick names you really like. If Edith, don't do a made up version. In danger of chav'ness looking and anyway that extra ''i" alters the pronunciation of it.

If you want unpopular try Doreen. Not yet met a child under 15yrs of age called Doreen.

[razzlebathbone]

Go with Edith nn Edie. Edi looks odd. My Edie doesn't get called Eddie if that helps.

[JulyOrAugustThatIsTheQuestion]

My thinking too Hellokitty :)

[hellokitty123]

Seth is much nicer and less overused than Theo. I know four little Theos under age seven.

[JulyOrAugustThatIsTheQuestion]

Still here hightrees - got up and moved about and feels a bit better. I've still got 3wks to go so I doubt it very much but I'd rather the pain would completely go so I can be sure :)

See I like Theo but I think there are quite a few now, I don't think Seth has got as popular as that YET.

[hightrees]

Not that Seth is like Cosmo - tho I do like both of these names...