Laeticia ...discuss

[WhiteMagnolia]

I am wavering between commiting to and then suddenly disliking this name! Due any minute...help! What would be your thoughts on a child with this name? Thank you!

Don't watch eastenders so not too worried about that! Is this person even still in it?!

Absolutely beautiful name please use it.

Lettuce is a good nickname. Sounds just like it.

Or tissues or atishoo

Yes OP, she is.

Would you use ae or æ (ash, in case it doesn't show)?

A bit too sneezy.

To me it's quite French and chic. I think first of the actress Laetitia Casta.

My username is a reference to about a Laetitia

I really like it. I use Letitia or Letizia (but I took modern languages instead of Latin).
I also like Lettice :)

I'd use... Oops :)

I had a friend from France called Laeticia and it's pronounced La-tiss-ee-a

My first thought was Adams Family....wait that's Morticia

I love it. It's was my Nan's name - shortened to Lettie. It's my DDs middle name but we spell it Leticia .

I would use the Laetitia spelling. Or Letitia. Lovely name.

I agree with pp that the "c" would be a hard c in Latin so that wouldn't be consistent with your reasoning for using the "ae". Not that it really matters if you prefer that spelling though.

Ok...might have been convinced for the t spelling! Does everyone think that the spelling laetitia is the least likely to end up with the lay tee sha pronunciation as that's what I'm aiming to avoid! I quite like the 'itsia' ending and even the Spanish 'z' spelling! I think I'm going to go for the name anyway...I'm 80% convinced...

These are my back ups!

Anouska
Antigone (love tiggy but aware this may be pushing the boundaries of pretentiousness!)
Liberty
Lowdy
Ottolie (2 a penny round here though)
Octavia
Minerva
Miranda
Tatiana
Marina
Cicely

If you want the 'itsia' sound, then go for the Spanish spelling (like the Spanish Queen).

I love all your backups except Lowdy, Ottilie and Octavia. Marina might be iffy thanks to the contraceptive coil of the same name.

How about Letizia Antigone?

I've never heard of Lowdy before! Is it Welsh? It's rather nice.

I would pronounce all the variations mentioned as Leh tee sha. Sorry. Maybe it is a Scottish pronunciation thing.

I'd go for the 't' spelling.
Minerva and Miranda are fabulous. I think the coil is Mirena, which doesn't sound like Marina - also a lovely name. Anouska is nice. How about Saskia?

I only really associate the name with the African American community as that's where I've mainly heard it being used, not that that's a negative connection in the slightest.

I really don't like Laetitia or any variant on the spelling tbh, plus she will get cards and letters addressed to all sorts. I have a very short name but people STILL misspell it so I dread to think how a Laetitia would fare.

From your other suggestions, I adore Octavia and Cicely. Do you like Genevieve?

Weirdly, I have only ever heard the name Octavia in the African American community.

It's nice but it's spelt Laetitia and it's pronounced Leh-Tisha.

Either spell it and pronounce it properly or don't use it.

Oh sorry, see that you are planning to at least pronounce it properly if not spell it right!