How do you pronounce Esme?

[Muddywellyboots]

Our 3mo DD is called Esme. We love it and pronounce it Esmay. However everyone calls her Esmee despite us introducing her as Esmay. Just wondered what the consensus was?

I have only heard of Es-mee.

Ezmee.

Sorry

Ez-may

Never heard of it being pronounced Ezmee before reading this thread but I am in the North of England so maybe it is indeed a regional thing!

Same as you.

I didn't even realise there was an alternative until a friend of a friend introduced "Es-mee". I really struggled not to go because obviously that would have been very rude.

I think Esme is a bit like Clara. Klah-ra was the only pronunciation I'd ever come across until I joined mn and people mentioned pronouncing it Claire-ah. Again another moment and one which had me strike the name from my list of girls names!

Ez-may

My Esme is 5 and is Esmay. Occasionally she gets called Esmee or Esmi but not frequently.

Esmay.

I have an Esme and we say Esmee. I'd never heard of the Esmay pronunciation till after we had named her and we get the occasional Esmay even now - she's a teenager.

FWIW I know about 8 girls/women with the name and only two say it the Esmay way the rest are all Esmee.

I think Ez-mee sounds awful!

I grew up with Es -me not may. In the south. When I heard ezmay for the first time I thought they didnt know how it was pronounced or had made it up... I've since seen on musket it's becoming more popular that way and isn't made up at all. It still sounds "wrong" to.me though, esme sounds pretty and ezmay sounds harsh to me. Elsie?

Definitely Ez-may, it's French.
Es-mee doesn't sound right at all.

Ez-may

It wouldn't enter my mind to pronounce it any other way.

I would pronounce it ez-may but know that some pronounce it ez-mee. It's like Evelyn in that it has more than one legitimate pronunciation.

I know Es-mee and Es-may. Prefer the second.

Ez May