How do you pronounce Esme ?

[littlepooch]

I've seen this name a few times recently but not sure how it's pronounced ? It's so pretty written down!

Is it Ez-May
Or Ez-Me

Or something else?

Ez may

It's Es-me if it's spelt Esme. As in "me too".

It's Es-may if it's spelt Esmé. As in "may I?"

In my opinion :) And a lovely name.
The Salinger book is "For Esmé-With Love and Squalor"

Mine’s definitely an Es-me, she gets called both pronunciations though, doesn’t bother me but for some it might.

Ez me

Ezmee unless it had an accent over the last e. I prefer this pn too. I like the name Esme and dislike Esmé!

Ez-mee - beautiful name.

Ez me

Ez-May

Ez-mee

I know two Esme both pronounced Ez-mee!

I'd say ez-mee for Esme
and ez-may for Esmé

I've known two Esmes. The male Esme pronounced his name Ez-mi. The female Esme pronoun need her name Ez-may.

HTH

Bloody autocorrect as usual.

The female Esme pronounced her name Ez-may.

Ez-may.

Never heard ez-me here in Australia. Ez-me sounds awful.

I’d say ez-may unless corrected.

This is my nieces name who's 19, it's spelt Esmè and pronounced Ez-may. That said various older relatives call her ez-mee as well, but her parents state it's definately with a may on the end.

Ez-May

Out of interest are most Esmes Esmerelda or do most ppl just put the short from on the birth certificate? I love mine being Esmerelda as it means she has more options

Grobags - mines just an Esme, mostly Essie as a pp, but Esmeralda as a ‘I need you to do something’!

Superbeagle - how rude, maybe the name just doesn’t cut it with an Aussie accent.

Esme and Esmeralda have two different origins.

Esme (with an acute accent over the final e) is the past participle of a French verb, used as an adjective. It means 'esteemed' or 'beloved'. It was originally used as a male name; in French, the final single e spelling is male. The female equivalent would be Esmee (with an acute accent over the middle e). But today the male version seems to be used as a female name.

Esme is sometimes used as a short form of Esmeralda, a 'jewel' name. Esmeralda means Emerald in Spanish.

I've only ever met Es-mays. Never an Es-me.

Only Esmes I know are Ez-may

Ehz-may

Ez-mee. I also prefer this pronunciation.

On a similar note, I think Bronte (as in Charlotte and Emily) should be pronounced Brontee not Brontay. But that has those two dots over the e, unlike Esme.