Chelsey or Chelsie?

[DreamyBerry]

Good evening!
So now DH and me are lingering between these two spellings, which we both love. We like Chelsey because it's kind of more mature and not that girly and cutesy. But the problem is, we feel like there's too many E's in this spelling, which sometimes really annoy us. And that leads us to our second choice: Chelsie. We love that how it ends in -ie, which will fit her as a little girl and a teenager for quite some time, and is still not that cutesy and childish when it comes to an adult.
So, that's basically our thought. What do you guys think? Which one should we go with? And why?
Thanks

Do you have an unusually spelt name Presea?

Do you have an unusually spelt name Presea?
No

Déclassé. Snort.

All the emails she'll never receive at work and the customers that will be angry about it because her name is misspelled....

You're all joking about name place names but I know a boy in my sons school called Roehampton.....

@GummyGoddess - it's probably spelled Presie or Presey...

My work colleagues daughter is called Chelsea. It wouldn't matter how you spelt it, she absolutely hates it. I've known this lady and her daughter years, and every year is just a countdown to the time she can legally change it. It's the topic of many a discussion because of course her mum is upset that the name she gave her child is so badly despised. In the daughters eyes, it's cheap, trashy and common, and she's teased by her peers.

Also, if you spell a name differently, think about all the trash your child will want growing up which has their names on: head bands, mugs, water bottles etc. All stuff we hate to buy but we do because our kids want the same as other kids. You won't be able to buy them, because their name is spelt oddly.

Try to think long term on this one.

If you are bothered by what a bunch of random faceless strangers on the internet think about your name choice then the best thing to do is to not ask. No name will be met with universal approval. One person's classic and timeless is another person's dull and boring. Someone's different and special is someone else's hideous and made up sounding.

Presea I do have an unusually spelt name, it is totally shit. I don't think all of the lucky people with normal names with normal spellings will understand how awful it is and the annoyance their quest for unique baby names will cause their children. The children will not thank them.

Have you considered dumping London names in favour of something Scottish? Longformacus or Tyndrum could work...

You can pick @PreseaCombatir's post apart all you want. It's just proving her point that you sound like dickheads.

Poster posts on public forum devoted to opinions about potential baby names. Overwhelming response to both potential name variants is negative. Poster does not return. A minority of other posters take it upon themselves to berate the majority on behalf of a baby that doesn’t exist and all the Chelseys and Chelsies weeping into their cereal.

GummyGoddess

I went by a shortening of my name and then eventually did the deed poll (the free one) when my passport was up for renewal.

I didn't bother to tell my parents.

Mine was one with a number of standard spellings, think Debra and Deborah, Debora and I got Dyberahh. So I went to Debbie and then just used it for more and more things and finally that became my legal name.

Just wanted to point out we're not 'guys'?!!

Both names sound awful. Awful name, awful spelling. Don't understand too many ees either.

Just silly

I wouldn't it's godawful

Gross

@sashh oh wow, that sort of spelling is even worse than mine! Although the last three letters of mine spell out an unfortunate acronym.

I have no available nickname, my name doesn't really have any available. I'm just so tempted to get the conventional spelling but then if I changed all my email addresses and other things my DM would find out.

@GummyGoddess just make sure anything your mum might see is initial and surname only (assuming the initial would stay the same).

Neither but then again I prefer classical names. Think George, Henry, Emma, Sophie etc....

@Larry. You know you can waste your money on that trash via the internet, so your poor kid doesn’t have to be mercilessly teased for not having a pencil with his name on it because his parents got wild and didn’t choose one of the 28 most COMMON names in the country?

Think about the long term, but with modern technology in mind...

My work colleagues daughter is called Chelsea. It wouldn't matter how you spelt it, she absolutely hates it. I've known this lady and her daughter years, and every year is just a countdown to the time she can legally change it.

What about all the other Chelseas happily going about their lives quite content with their name?

I know someone called Emily who changed her name by deed poll. Does that make Emily a horrific name? No, it makes it a name she disliked.

Some very overblown reactions on display here.

@Sessy19 I can only comment on the one Chelsea who I do know, who would have meltdowns at not being able to get a pencil with her name on it. Modern technology does not come into it when you're stood in a shop.

I'm not keen but if you want that name it might be better to spell it Chelsea.

@Larry. I’d suggest a child having a shop meltdown is a parenting issue? It’s not beyond the sublime to recommend that the child just gets told no, old fashioned as that may seem....

I have a very mainstream and common name, and just got taught that my parents wouldn’t kow-tow to my tantrums about a shop not having any pencils with my name left in stock since all the other parents got there first....! Heaven forbid we teach children to wait these days, I know!

Of course, I’m just being facetious, tearing holes in your very valid argument about how to spell a child’s name