Nina, Renée, Heidi or Esme

[Leahd89]

Opinions on these names and any other ideas that run along the same theme?
These are the top 4 my husband and I agree on, his order of preference is

1. Renée
2. Esme
3. Heidi
4. Nina

Mine is

1. Nina
2. Renée and Heidi joint

3.

1. Esme

Not sure if we are having a boy or girl but girls names are much more difficult to choose!

Thanks

Heidi
Nina
Esme
Renee

Nina by miles

Love Mina, Cora, Willa and Stella but hubby isn't keen

Renée with an accent is ridiculous to me unless you are french or live in France. Not to mention how difficult it will be to type etc, it will inevitably get left off.

On the other hand, Nina, Esme and Heidi are all lovely names!

Nina

Nina is lovely.

Nina.

Love Esme

I like Heidi and Esme best (that order)

Nina is ok

I don't like Renee at all sorry

I know a Renee. I think it's a great name. The Renee I know doesn't have an accent or any French connection. I would spell is Renee. The accent would be a pain.

Nina is the nicest by far.

What about Nicole? I think its beautiful and has a lovely nternational/European feel.

LOVE Nina. Heidi is nice. Renee is very dated. Esme is another Lily-May/Ava/Evie name to me

Renée with an accent is ridiculous to me

If you don't have the accent on Renée or Esmée, many non French speakers will mispronounce it as Ren ee or Es mee.

Nina, possibly Heidi.

Love Nina - only like esme out of the others but wouldn’t like the pronounciation differences.

Renee is pronounced Reenee in many parts of the country which is a horrible name IMHO.
Nina and Esme are lovely.
Heidi - meh!

So

1. Nina
2. Esma

I like all except for Esme which has always sounded like a sneeze and visually reminds me of orgasm! There was a child Nina on radio two this morning and I thought how lovely it was.

What about Remy? Less divisive over pronunciation than Renee.

Heidi 💯

It’s really not hard to type é though is it? My daughters name has an â in it and it’s really never been a problem. The diacritic matters for pronunciation else it wouldn’t be there. Daft english-centric narrow minded statement to say it’s ridiculous, it’s like spelling Jane as Jan and saying it doesn’t matter

It’s really not hard to type é though is it?

Dunno. I've not managed it on my phone yet. Duolingo is constantly annoyed with me for it.

Eh?! The accent tells you how a letter is pronounced. Stops people saying es-mee or ren-ee. Or caf-ee. Why would it be ridiculous? And it really isnt hard to do, especially on an iphone. You just hold the letter longer and all the accents appear. Maybe your tech needs updating?

To be clear, it's not the accent that I find slightly ridiculous, the name Renée needs an accent. It's the concept of using a name with an accent in it if you are British, living in Britain, with no links to France. It will be spelt wrong all the time, the accent will often be lost, and people will wonder why you have a French name/a name that uses characters not in the English language. Hence why I wouldn't personally consider Renée as an option.