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?

Agree with Mary. Even if she were called Elle, pronounced El, she would probably get called 'Ellie' at least 50% of the time, and if she were called 'Ellie' there is a high chance that she would sometimes get called El.

I would just go with it and accept that people are sometimes going to assume she is called El. She might even like Elle as an alternative.

Is there a cultural reason why you decided on Elle rather than Ellie? If not my advice it to change her name to Ellie or call her Elle with the nick name Ellie, it's not fair for you to expect everyone to know that they should use the obscure pronunciation of the name Elle.

I actually think Elle (Ell) is a nicer name and you could still call her Ellie as a nick name :)

If you wanted her to be called Ellie, and your knew that most people would pronounce Elle Ell, why didn't you just call her Ellie? Genuinely interested! Seems like you made your (and her) life difficult for no reason!

Other than constantly correcting people, I can't see a way round it TBH.

Not as bad as someone I know of who liked the way the name Yvonne looked written down, so named her daughter that, but pronounced it Why-von-ee. True story.

Sorry El as an alternative pronunciation.

Elle is pronounced El.

Change your daughter's name to Ellie if that is what you want people to say.

You might as well call her Claire or something.

Elle is pronounced "Elle". Ellie is a different name.

Can you imagine how annoying this is going to be for her?

I named my dd Sharon, but I pronounce it Darren, are people being unreasonable by mispronouncing it on purpose?

Ok, just kidding, but it's the same thing!

Elle is much nicer name than Ellie, OP.

What gave you the impression that Ellie is a known pronunciation of Elle? Did you read it somewhere?

How old is your baby? Is it too late to change her name?

I think you should just change the spelling of her name. Elle IS pronounced el - that's all there is to it.

Ellie , ime, is a nickname for Eleanor.

To be fair to the OP. She hasn't made it up, as I said I taught a girl named Elle pronounced Ellie 10 years ago. She would be around 18 or 19 now.
It is unusual but not unprecedented.

Everyone calls her El

She is two and a half weeks old.

Decide now if you want her to be called Elle - El or Ellie. If you want people to call her Ellie, then spell her name Ellie. If you don't care how they say it, then what is the problem?

I'm a teacher and a little girl in my class is called Elle (pronounced Ellie). I hadn't come across it before and would have called her Elle (El) had I not been told in advance. To be honest most people who meet her know her name before they see it written down so just pronounce it correctly anyway. She will have to get used to being assertive and correcting people in jobs interviews when she's older but it will just become part of her life, I suppose. Quite a few people have this with surnames (I did before I got married). It was mildy annoying but no more than that really.

spider have you ever heard the saying 'two wrongs don't make a right*

It is actually irrelevant whether it's right or not, the fact is people will see Elle and call her El. If they see Ellie they will call her Ellie. Depends how difficult the OP wants to make her own life and her DD's really doesn't it :)

I have to ask where you heard that it is also pronounced Ellie? (Have RTFT and can't see it mentioned)

Elle is much nicer, if I were you I'd stick with Elle and Ellie as a nn. However, I'm not you and it's totally your choice. We won't take the piss...

Spidertracker - honestly that sounds like someone making the same mistake or making up a name. I'm sure it isn't a unique situation, but nor is misspelling your baby's name and lumbering them with that for life.

You are asking for advice. My advice would be to change the spelling of her name to Ellie.

The only experience I have is that my youngest son has an unusual middle name (my father's name - from India) and as much as I would have liked to have used it as a first name, I knew it would be mispronounced, hence middle name not first name.

you're changing the rules of phonetics and expecting people to know what you've done?

I was at school with a girl whose name was spelled Sian, but she pronounced it see-ann. She would get quite irate with people making the 'mistake' of pronouncing it the accepted way. All you can do, I think, is just tell people they way you pronounce it, and hope they remember. Just don't get cross about it if it's the first time, because they're not doing anything wrong.

I never said it was right, in fact in my first post I said I thought it odd. I am just musing that it is possible OP has met an Elle pronounced Ellie and asumed it is an accepted pronunciation, rather than just being awkward.

I was at school with a Sian pronounced Sea-anne too. This meant when I got to secondary school I was utterly confused by Sian pronounced Sian.

You've chosen to use a very very unusual pronunciation. You either have to accept people will pronounce the name differently to you until you tell them otherwise or you need to change the spelling.

I used to go so school with a Sinead who insisted her name was Shanay...