Henriette

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I love it. Partner, best friend and family all think it's awful so it's not a goer but someone please tell me they like it and I'm not completely deranged.

'Tis grand!

THANK YOU.

ooh yes lovely!! Really classy name

I prefer Henrietta but you're certainly not mad!

Don't like it, it sounds like it's Henrietta (which is great) misspelled.

I'm another one who would struggle to remember to say "Henriette" rather than "Henrietta"

mymum -e or -a are both female endings. Anne, Anna; Rose, Rosa; Amelie; Amelia. It certainly doesn't look like it is one or the other misspelled, IMO; it's just one or the other.

Prefer Henrietta, but like Henriette too.

laundry, really? Do you forget to call your cousin Anna rather than Anne?

im with laundry here im afraid.

assuming you're in an english speaking country it's quite hard to stop the 'a' coming out. if you are using the french pronunciation it works much better as a name but probably isnt workable in the uk without constantly correcting folk

HENriettA

or

ENree-ET

Um. No. I would say Henriette exactly the same as Henrietta, but with no -a on the end. Why would you leave out the H, unless you were actually French?

I know one who is Danish and the end bit is pronounced -duh in Danish, so if I encountered another Henriette that's what I'd assume.

I really like it, though I do prefer Henrietta.

Well I'm still chalking this up as a minor victory. Weirdly, I don't really like Henrietta, sounds a bit horsey to me/ Still, it's all completely by the by anyway because of the IDIOTS who make up my nearest and dearest and their LACK OF VISION.

I don't mind it but I would
Look at it and expect Henrietta- others will too

Only if you're French speaking and live in France.

Juliette/Julietta.

I prefer Henrietta. The extra syllable makes it sound more feminine.
Henriette's not bad though.

You're deranged.

In the nicest possible way of course.

I know what you're saying moxon and you are, of course, technically correct, but I think that when there is one, very familiar version of a name and one that is almost the same but far less known you will find that people just automatically revert to the one they are familiar with. Anna and Anne doesn't really fit the pattern as they are both equally familiar, but ask my DSIL who's make is Marisa rather than Marissa - I reckon people get her name wrong 99% of the time, even people who've known her for a long time.

Then again, if I really preferred the less well known version then I would happily lumber my child with a pretty name that will require constant correction! So long as it doesn't have any akward connotations attached (thinking of that Kackspar thread).