Sidonie

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Wdyt?

And how would you pronounce?

SID-uh-nee
Or
sid-OH-nee

I’d pronounce it Si-DOH-ne.
I prefer Sidney though.

Sid-oh-nee

It's pronounced SID-uh-nee I think.

It's unusual & quite pretty.

Would I use it myself? No, not my style.

Sidney with an o in the middle. Sounds mispronounced or made up.

SID-uh-nee.

Is this a slightly more Younique 'Sidney'?

Sid-on-nee, with more emphasis on the first and last syllable than on the middle.

I like it a lot, btw.

I know of two people called this is they are both Sid-OH-nee.

I know two, both Sid-Oh-nee although one is happy to be called Sidney. I think it's a beautiful french name

Please don't. It's really horrible to my ears.

Sid-oh-nee

I prefer Leonie.

The syllables are equally weighted, Sid o nee.

I like it.

This is a really old, classic French (Latin?) name - not a yoonique version of anything! I know two in their thirties, both from very middle class families.

Ps both pronounced Si-DOH-nie

I know one, more like SID-uh-nee.

Lovely French name. I believe there is a mediaeval English version, Sidony.

Please don't. Too much like sodomy.

Sid-OH-nee.

Only because I would assume no one would name their child "Sid-uh-nee".

Sid oh nee

I appreciate people are pointing out that it's actually an old name, but if you use it you need to realise that many people will assume it's a made up spelling of Sidney. You won't be able to set everyone straight...

Sid-on-knee (sit on my knee?)

I don't hate it, I don't think, just weird

Written it looks lovely, but spoken and I’m thinking of panatone! Are you totally against Sydney or Sidney?

It’s SID-uh-nee, as it’s French. It’s Colette’s real name.

Sid OH nee is a weird anglicisation, and rather ugly.

I have a Sydney and have met another girl called Sidonee, her mum said she's always having to correct people trying to spell her dds name the usual way, and saying it incorrectly.

Imo I think you and your dc will be forever correcting people. When I told people I was calling dd Sydney the reaction was a bit 'marmite', as in half of people loved it and the other half hated it. I do wonder if you might get the same.

Tatiana but the OP wasn't asking what the correct pronunciation is (she presumably knows or could google) but how people seeing her post would pronounce it. Most people in the UK might anglicise it because it's not a widely used or known French name in the UK . The OP presumably wants to know how her daughter's name would be pronounced/ mispronounced if she goes for this name.

Most people don't know this name so would assume its an attempt to come up with an unusual spelling of Sidney and pronounce it phonetically in the community language of the country. Wrong it may be, but it's also likely to be what actually happens.