Scandinavian version of grandmother's name - thoughts please

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argh names names...I'm 22 weeks pregnant & feel like I just can't win. I want to name our girl after my recently deceased father's mother as I'm very attached to that side of my family which has almost totally died out & it's a family tradition to use family names. If I tell people I want to name her after my grandmother they think that's boring & unoriginal. When I tell them the 'Scandinavianised' version of her name I'd like to use (which I think is lovely) they look at me exasperated & say stuff like 'can't you just use her name as a middle name and give her a lovely 'normal' name instead?' :(

Quick background: DP is Norwegian, I live in Norway and DD will be brought up in Norway so name must be 'Norwegian-friendly'.

So - my grandmother's name was Edith Beatrice and she used to be known as 'Edie' or 'Dede' (pronounced 'Deed') and also 'Edie Beatty' all of which I love. However - Edith and Edie in Norway is pronounced like 'Eddie' and 'Eddith' which I don't like for a girl (and also my cousin just had a girl called Edith). There is a name here 'Ida' - pronounced 'eeda' which I love but which is VERY common (c. 3 in each class). I would like my daughter to be known as 'Edie' or 'Dede' like her grandmother so I either use Ida and use 'Idi' (so she'd have a common name in Norway and all the UK relatives will call her 'Eye-da', which I don't like so much) or I thought 'Dida' or 'Dide' (both pronounced 'Dee-da'; variations of the Scandinavian name 'Ditte') which I love and enabling me to use nicknames of 'Dede' or DeeDee (although I'd spell it the Norwegian way - Didi). This latter name 'Dida' when I revealed to my bessie (I'm so set on it) provoked frowns, no positive comments and mild bewilderment which upset me more than I expected. 'Edie' is so popular in the UK at the moment I didn't think this was an 'out of step' sort of name. It's all a bit upsetting as I'm so set on naming her after my grandmother and DP's all for it (he has 2 girls already so it's kind of up to me - as long as his family can pronounce it and it doesn't mean anything strange in Norwegian).

Thoughts?

Great advice abbypumpkin - just got a bit worn down but everyone asking and looking a bit offended when I refuse to talk to them about names. I've learned my lesson I think.

In your shoes I would go with Edith Beate and not worry about the varying pronunciation. Eddie's not so bad as a nn for a girl - there's Eddi Reader for one, plus wasn't the Ab Fab character called Eddie for short? Anyway, growing up in Norway it wouldn't seem odd to her, even if it does to you.

Either that, or abandon the whole idea and choose something else entirely.

Oh, and Dida is a Brazilian goalkeeper. :o

I love Ditte, and I think that because it looks non-English (unlike Didi or Dida, which look more like the cute shortened names which are quite popular just now), people in the UK would realise that they have to ask you how to pronounce it! Presumably you could still use DiDi as a nickname with that?

Good luck with whatever you decide!