people pronouncing my baby's name the way I dont

[SophieJoe2014]

I have called my dd elle (ellie) but everyone calls her el
I understand that in English it spells el but if you look up how to pronouce elle it comes up with el or ellie
it's making me feel like I have done it wrong people will judge me for it.
has anyone been in the same situation or have any advice?

Only advice I have really is if you give your child a name and want to use the less obvious/common pronunciation then expect people to get it 'wrong' a lot! Probably not very helpful. I'm sure people will soon start calling her Ellie when you've corrected them.

I suppose the person everyone would have heard of with that name is Elle McPherson, who pronounces it El.

Also most people learned French at school and the word elle is pronounced El.

You will have to remind people that you are choosing to pronounce her name differently to the way it is spelled

Just call her Elle (el), then.

Ellie sounds more like a nickname, tbh. I expect relatives and friends to pick up on Ellie, but new people who first meet her written name will be calling her Elle (el) all the time.

I've never heard of Elle being pronounced Ellie and I would presume it was a spelling mistake (sorry). She will probably have a lifetime of correcting people but people will soon get the hang of it when they've heard it a few times. Personally I would put the i in there but everyone has the right to name their children as they wish.

Unfortunately, the most common prouncation of Elle is "Ell", not "Ellie" which is normally spelt Ellie or Elly.

if you want the 'ie' sound, then do you have time to reregister with Ellie? FWIW, even if someone's name is "Elle" to be pronounced "Ell" they will often get called Ellie as a nickname. Most people probably think her 'real' name is Ell and you are calling her Ellie as a nickname, not that they are prouncing this wrong.

Sadly, if you spell a name with one common pronoucation, that's what the bulk of the population will call that child for the rest of their life, even if you prefer the less common version.

I would presume it was pronounced El.

Elle is pronounced El This is a classic case of everybody else is right and you are wrong. If you want to call her Ellie, spell it correctly and you won't have a problem...

it can be pronounced both ways actually, I came on here for advice not criticism.
I understand that 90% of people will say el.

I once worked in a class with a girl named Elle pronounced Ellie, I am going back sometime though probably 10 years or more that is the only time I have heard it. I thought it was odd then, I only ever remembered it because she had a cousin called Shelley in the same class and I knew there names rhymed.

If you want her called Ellie then you will just have to correct people. Even if I heard you calling her Ellie I would assume you were using a nickname and that I (as a stranger) should call her El. You would have to tell me, which would be fine.

If you up your 90% by 10, OP, you'll be in the right zone.

The advice is that you (and she) will have a lifetime of explaining to people you have just met that it's pronounced differently to the way it is spelled - and you both simply have to keep explaining. Not sure what other advice there is tbh

I don't think anyone can give you much advise! Just correct people who you know, keep using 'Ellie' pronunciation, and accept that people you don't know will call her 'El'?

Well either you suck up the 90% pronouncing it wrong at first go, or you can add the 'i' to make Ellie, where probably 100% of people will pronounce it right first time.

Elle looks like El to me.

I've never heard of Ellie being spelt Elle. So I would get it wrong at first, not through any malice, but because it's obviously a very uncommon spelling of the name.

can Belle be pronounced Bellie?

You've 4 choices I'm afraid.

Change the name.

Change the spelling.

Keep repeating the correct pronunciation a hundred times a day

Opt for a nickname to save the hassle.

I'm old. Very old. I've had effing years of this, and not even because my name has an unusual spelling. Oh no! I suffer from the mispronunciation of a perfectly nice, if not too common classic name because people can be lazy, they can be as thick as mince, a lot of them are unwilling to bother to listen to how the name is pronounced when introduced to me or they're too ill mannered to bother to say it properly once they've been told and corrected eleventy million times.

I love my name but I hate the way people mispronounce it so I no longer give most of them the opportunity. I simply tell them to call me by a nickname of my choice instead.

Well, OP, Elle is a word in French, it means 'She'. It's a pretty short name, but the French pronuciation is "Ell". It can be prounouced "Ellie" as a name, but it won't be by anyone who's studied any french, which as it's taught in pretty much every secondary school in the UK, will be pretty much all of the British population.

sorry, but there it is.

If you want your DD to be called Ellie only, you need to change the birth certificate to Ellie. If she's under a year, that should be a relatively pain free thing to do. If you determined to stick with Elle, you need to accept the prouncation pretty much everyone will use is El. However, the compromise could be whenever you register her for nursery or school, you get the option of "known as" and you can put "Elle known as Ellie" to get round this.

That said, I think Elle (prounced El) is a beautiful and elegant name for a grown woman, and Ellie is a very cute nickname for a little girl, so you could keep it as it is, if you can accept you'll have to say "we call her Ellie" a lot.

People are always going to pronnounce it El. So it's either a lifetime of people getting it wrong or change the spelling.

The thing is, Elle is a very common word, albeit a French one and it is pronounced 'El'. If you called your daughter She, people would assume that it was pronounced She, not Shay for instance.

I don't have a problem with people using alternative spellings, but I think you (and she) have your work cut out on this one.

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I call my Isobel 'Bellie' it is a pet name that only I use though, does that count?

My mum's name is similar. She is Scandinavian and you pronounce the e on the end. She just corrects every time. It didn't put her off as she picked a name with the same problem for me. I corrected obsessionally as a child, as did she, and now mainly people get it right. I answer to both though now and it helps that the name sounds good both ways, my mum's is awful if you don't pronounce the e. It also helps that I can explain the name is Scandinavian rather than my parents making weird pronunciation choices. No one can spell it either but that's another issue...

Elle might be difficult due to Elle Mcpherson but if you are persistent, consistent and explain why, it is totally doable. I get lots of 'what a lovely name' comments so am pleased we stuck to our guns.

I have an adult friend who has a name that has a common pronunciation, and her parents chose a different pronunciation. Not Elle/Ellie but same idea. She now goes by a completely different name that she has chosen for herself as she got so fed up with constantly correcting people.

FWIW I would pronounce Elle 'El' as well.