Myaa-Graice

[Helena888]

My friend is currently expecting a little girl. She posted on Facebook the other day, that her daughter's name would be Myaa-Graice. I actually thought she was joking! It looks awful! Nobody will ever be able to spell the poor child's name. I think she should call her Maya Grace instead without hyphen and weird spelling. Wanted to see what everyone else thinks.

The Welsh spelling is Mair. HTH.

I have a name which is quite uncommon in the UK and had two spellings - the UK version and the German version (1 letter different between the two). People ALWAYS spell it wrong- even when responding to an email where I have written my name.

Your friends dd is being condemned to a lifetime of this x 1000!

You call her a friend but yet you are writing about her on here, which I think is a very sneaky thing to do.

You may not like the name but she does, and that’s all that matters.

It would actually be lovely if it was spelt correctly

MightyMagnificentScarfaceClaw
"The Welsh spelling is Mair. HTH.n"

Mair really is NOT pronounced Maia/Myaa. It is pronounced My but with 'r' on the end. Like Myra without the a.
I don't care if you know 100 Mairs all pronounced My-uh, there is only one way to say Mair. It is 1 syllable.
Mair Edwards is pronounced My Redwards.

Mair is such a pretty name, why mispronounce it.

i think you are a shitty friend. thats what i think.

i agree with Mike about Mair though...twas my nan's name. only she was My Revans ;)

Vet so does make the sound 'ay'. Words like rain, vain, drain, disdain...

That was meant to say ai makes the sound 'ay'.

I would pronounce Myaa with one syllable, sort of like M'yah. Not like Maya. Myaa-Graice is ludicrous. Poor kid.

I'd think it was a wind up.

it's not the worst name I've heard.

Mair Evans is indeed pronounced My Revans. What a lovely name.

That's a good point about it looking like Mmmyaah. Maybe you could say you mentioned it to someone (best not say you mean half of Mumsnet) and they pronounced it that way, would that bother her?

Graice to rhyme with plaice, I suppose. You could drop that in too. Poor kid.

that's not a name, it's a safari suggested password

If she googles her preferred name she will find this thread!

Is the baby's name Mia, Mya or Maya? Grace or Gracie?

Say nothing, just like you do when your friend goes out with a nutter.

Your friend has chosen 2 popular bland millenial names, and tried to make it unusual, and in the end she will just be called Mya.

ElderflowerWaterIsDelish : What is wrong with Chavs? Unusual spellings are Chavy? What is a chav? Chav comes from the word chavi which is romanian for child......

Are you one of the people that blames the social discourse in the UK on chavs? Like the London riots in 2011? Get out of waitrose and widen your brain dear.... It's the upper classes, the investment bankers who have their money squirreled away from taxman. England is a disgusting place if you look at a babies name and class it socially into a scale that you inherited by other small minded british.

OP, you are a snob, and mean.

Horrendous

Awful

I know of a 'Lexii-Maii'. Honestly.

Is it pronounced Leksy-eye May-eye?

@MikeUniformMike nope! Like Lexie May 😬

We luv yoonique names on here.

People will assume the parents are illiterate and who could blame them?