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Anybody got a daughter called Alexa

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Chriss82 · 27/01/2019 18:36

I know I asked this before Christmas but we are getting more pressure about this. Our daughter is called Alexa before the amazon thing came our and we were thinking about changing her name for obvious reasons but we stayed firm with it as it is. However we have come under pressure from other parents and friends to consider changing it, which if we had to it would be Alexandra as its close to what it is now. We have even been called cruel for not doing it! We have had one parent apologise for the way her son might speak to our daughter as he is very rude to Alexa at home....Has this world gone mad?? Our daughter will be 3 in a few weeks and this is causing us so much worry at home as the next years are crucial to her finding her identity.

Has anyone with a daughter called Alexa really finding it so much of an issue? So sorry to ask again but if we have to act it will have to be soon, thanks again.

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Newsername · 27/01/2019 18:38

WTH? Really? Hmm

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Chriss82 · 27/01/2019 19:19

I know, I never thought out of all the worry's of being a parent her name would be one of them! We had one parent say their little boy can say his own name or anything else apart from Alexa as that what's they are also shouting!!

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HappyGoLuckyGo · 27/01/2019 19:23

Ridiculous. Please don’t change your daughter’s lovely name. Maybe other parents should teach their children some manners Hmm

dalmatianmad · 27/01/2019 19:25

Please don't change her name or the same of some gadget!

It's a beautiful name for a little girl.

dalmatianmad · 27/01/2019 19:26

*for the sake of some

tammytoby · 27/01/2019 19:27

Please don't change Alexa's name! It's a lovely name and has been for a long time.

Can't you change amazon's alexa/echo to any name you want?

SemperIdem · 27/01/2019 19:30

Would I call a daughter Alexa now, post Alexa Chung, the Mulberry bag naked for her and the more recent Amazon device? No.

Would I have named a daughter that name whilst the other two existed but before the Amazon product? Yes

Would I change the name of an almost 3 year old because of the Amazon product? Absolutely fucking not.

Whoever is suggesting you do is an idiot. She’s not a budgie, she’s a small child who knows her name. It would be completely unreasonable to change her name, in my opinion

kaytee87 · 27/01/2019 19:31

The amazon echo has been around for a couple of years. How old is your daughter?!

SinceYouAskMe · 27/01/2019 19:32

I’d personally tend to shorten it to Alex or Lexie or her initials if they work in the short term. In a few years the world may have moved on from the Amazon device, in which case she could revert to the full name, or it might have become ubiquitous in which case she’d stick with the nickname.

WomanWithAltitude · 27/01/2019 19:32

By the time she's an adult Alexas will be old tech (and hopefully people will have woken up to how silly it is to give a corporation unrestricted access to their private life). This isn't worth changing her name over.

kaytee87 · 27/01/2019 19:32

Missed that your daughter is almost 3. It would be cruel to change her name now. How confusing for her.
Im actually not sure you'd be allowed anyway.

tammytoby · 27/01/2019 19:33

You really can't change a 3 year olds name because of some technical thing with the same name! Ridiculous and not fair imo.

SinceYouAskMe · 27/01/2019 19:35

When I say “shorten it” I’m not talking about actually changing her birth certificate, just shifting to use a nickname. Lots of children are called by a whole range of names and nicknames over the course of their childhoods: everyone in my family I answers to at least four.

Scandaloso · 27/01/2019 19:36

She's three, it would be too weird for her to have to change her name. It's unfortunate that the Amazon device has become such a ubiquitous thing but hopefully within five years people will be on to the next thing and the Alexa device will be more or less redundant.

Tell people to mind their own bloody business.

SingaSong12 · 27/01/2019 19:41

Don’t change it if you like it. To stop any teasing/bad behaviour Alexandra could work. However I think the name still makes the machine active, maybe Alex would as well.

Cbeebiesrehab · 27/01/2019 19:55

Definitely don’t change it...and tell the people commenting to mind their own f**king business! Cruel for not changing your three year olds name, behave! And that parent needs to teach her son the difference between a person and an electronic device if she thinks it might cause him to be a bullying little sod. Don’t change it! Maybe just call her the diminutive Allie or Lexie if it bothers you but don’t do it for anyone else.

EvaHarknessRose · 27/01/2019 19:56

She could be Alex or Ali for school - if you and she want. Or another nickname. But help her be proud of her name.

MichelleM30 · 27/01/2019 20:02

I love the name Alexa, it's what I wanted for my girl but hubby didn't like it so we went with another name.

I have since thought oh imagine we had called her Alexa purely because of the amazon thing but it will not be around I bet in a few years time.

I would 100% not change her name, especially as she is 3 and knows it. You liked it when you named her, ignore any comments, it will pass and you will be glad you didn't change her name.

Hopeandglory3 · 27/01/2019 20:02

I have an Alexa, age 11. So named well before Amazon Alexa or Alexa Chung came on the scene. It was an almost unheard of name when we chose it. She is not teased about it at all. I think the people telling you you are cruel not to change it are obnoxious and very rude. As someone else has already said, it will be obsolete tech before long anyway. Please don't change her name, ignore the idiots.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 27/01/2019 20:10

So you should strip away your dds name because another parent has a rude child. I've definitely heard it all, now.

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Chriss82 · 27/01/2019 20:12

Thank you all for taking the time to reply. We think the same as most of this comments that this is our daughters name however it feels 'socially' her name is not acceptable. We understand kids bully for all sorts of reasons but we feel this is something that our daughter will really hate us for. We have fallen out with several people defending our name choice but as many have said (in kindness) the generation our daughter is growing up in will be very accepting of this technology. They will be use to ordering Alexa about l, it's just a shame you have to say the name to get it to do something.

We have regularly stayed in a cottage in Dorset and being told next time we go we have to shout Alexa to control the heating!!!!! How is our little girl going feel? Our little girl was born in Feb this device came out in the September........ this year it's going to be in cars... what next!

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RCohle · 27/01/2019 20:19

God, I'm amazed people are being so rude!

Alexa is a lovely name. If it's something that bothers your DD when she's older she could choose to shorten it to Alex, or whatever she fancies. You certainly shouldn't feel obliged to preemptively change her name because other parent's are CFs.

JaretsGirlfren · 27/01/2019 20:30

DD(7) has a close friend called Alexa apparently they’re getting married when they grow up no one has ever said a thing about her name and i had never even made the connection between the two until I read this thread. Alexa is a lovely name and those people sound batshit.

tammytoby · 27/01/2019 21:55

And that parent needs to teach her son the difference between a person and an electronic device if she thinks it might cause him to be a bullying little sod

Agree with this.

Don't change her name!

TatianaLarina · 27/01/2019 23:21

I think you need to change your fuckwit friends not your DD’s name.

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