Aoife?

[clairemiss79]

I love the name Aoife but living in England I'm worried that it will be constantly mis-pronounced. Does anyone know any aoifes?

Like I said living with it for the last 10 years the only time it is a issue is with grandma (who is a story all in herself so I dont count) and the first time people see it. My own name is English but not very common I admit however I have that misspelled far more than dd3's name is.

Good friends name is Claire (with or without an i with or without and e?) she always has to spell her name as does work college who is Lynn (with or without an e?) Friends dd is Gemma has to be spelt every time (with a J or a G?) Names considered quite normal in the UK.

dh's name is Nicholas people misspell that all the time (I cant work out how as well thats imo how it is spelt but we have seen ALL sorts of spellings)

IMO if you love a name and feel your dd is one then go for it. Off course dd1 was going to be Elizabeth right up until she was born where the first words she heard was " well this is not Elizabeth" in unison from both dh and I.

Indeed, Sillylass, and those British university presidents standing on a podium calling out names of graduates won't always be people whose first language is English or whose lives have been spent entirely in Britain. It's not outside the bounds of possibility that they could even be Irish.

tangent but fifi is a cute nn for Aoife! Never heard that before but I like it.

Whenever someone tried calling me Fifi as a child, I'd give them a Chinese burn. Fifi is only fit for a toy poodle in my opinion.

Fifi for Aoife! God no. Definitely a poodle name.

You'd get short shrift from my teenage niece Aoife if you called her Fifi. We sometimes call her Aoif (Eef), which she doesn't mind, but she is usually known as Aoife.

Ive got an 11 year old Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Fifi

Ive got an 11 year old SBT named Fifi

Very beautiful name! but can be problems with it's pronunciation;-) lots of problems;-)

It's pretty, but it would condemn your child to a lifetime of having to correct people.

Eefa sounds pretty it when I see it written down I always think heffa for some reason which isn't so pretty!

It is of course a fab name and pretty well known now in the Uk, can't see it being a problem.