Daphnie do you like it or not?

[Momma2L]

Is Daphnie (yes we want the spelling to be that way) cute, too old fashioned. We don't care too much about the scooby reference. Hubby and I both love it. But grandparents hate it.

Daphnie is awful.

What about Daphneigh, or Daphni or Daffney? If you want ie on the end Daffnie? Daghnie?

Another vote for Daphne being lovely but not Daphnie.

I really like Daf'nie.

I keep reading ‘Daphnie’ as ‘Daphine’.

My mum's friend is called Daphne and she has said to me in the past she hates it because she gets called Dafty.
However if you are going to use it please please don't spell it in a silly way.

For all those saying it makes OP look stupid, I disagree. What makes people stupid is the inability to compute an extra letter. Corrected once everyone should remember. I've worked in schools with all kinds of unusual spellings and they are always remembered and the kids not looked down upon, in both private and state schools.

I Googled your spelling and it returned 'Common water fleas'

That's Daphnia, @KatherineJaneway

I think Bunny meant that yoo-nieke name spellings are rather common, NotNowPlzz. And not in the sense that one sees them often (though I suppose in some "brackets" one probably does).

Daphne as a name is fine but agree with others that deliberately spelling it incorrectly it will make you look uneducated and would be really unfair on your daughter.

Daphne is lovely but Daphnie is really, really, really bad.

Just typical MN sneering at any tastes other than white UMC.

Corrected once everyone should remember

There speaks someone who doesn’t have a name that can be spelled more than one way!

I dont like alternative spelling. Poor child will have a lifetime of correcting people.
Dislike Daphne because of a story book of a rather silly duck with that name lol.
Also hate Daffy. Sounds like dafty.

Hedda I have a name barely anyone knows and no one has any idea until I spell it all out. So I suppose yes I'm not going to have people spell it wrong to a 'standard' version. However people do often spell my name wrong in numerous different ways, and I really couldn't gaf.

In various schools I've worked at we had a Laycy, Angell, Mayson etc and it didn't matter one tiny bit. But I suppose to MN these are just common children with uneducated parents and oh gosh we wouldn't want to be put into that 'bracket'.

Incidentally Laycy was from a well off UMC family and at private school but whatever.

Not sneering. But I prefer the traditional spelling.

My name is said differently to how you might think it is and it is a pain correcting spelling/pronunciation.

Don’t do it. Really.

I’m not posh or snobby but some of the spellings for names make me cringe myself inside out.

Including mine

Listen to everyone on here OP. This is what people in real life will (generally) be thinking, but people in real life will mostly be too polite to say to your face. They will say it behind your (and your child's) back instead.

If you want an 'ie' name, there are plenty of lovely ones that are meant to be spelt that way! Eg:

Katie
Ellie
Annie
Cassie
Elsie
Rosie
Elodie
Natalie
Maisie
Sophie

It is completely your choice ! I myself have a name spelled completely different to anyone I've ever heard of (Mine ends in ie too) and I love it , makes me feel unique and not just the bog standard name like everyone else, my baby boys name is also spelled differently

I have never had any issue spelling my name out when I need too and I'm sure she won't either, Daphnie is a unique name for a beautiful baby girl.

@NotNowPlzz it might not matter at school but where do you think they might end up in society having a silly spelt name. Of course people judge. It's only on mn you'd openly admit it. You're trained maybe to see each dc as just that.
In an office full of people those names wouldn't get through the door a lot of the time. A name is very important in the U.K.
so don't go spoiling a name like Daphne OP by putting some random vowel where it shouldn't be!

Please spell it properly I have a friend called Linsey and she is always correcting the spelling on thongs.

What absolutely everyone else has said

Daphne yes
Daphnie no - looks misspelled, “trying too hard to be yooneek”

Sorry - you did ask!

For all those saying it makes OP look stupid, I disagree. What makes people stupid is the inability to compute an extra letter. Corrected once everyone should remember. I've worked in schools with all kinds of unusual spellings and they are always remembered and the kids not looked down upon, in both private and state schools.

This is so wrong, sorry.

The reality is that some people (I suspect most people) will not remember and will continue to spell it the normal way, and some people will remember and spell it the OP's preferred way, but will still be judging her silently.

I have a name that can be spelled both "ie" and "y". Both spellings are correct. There are many people in my life who persistently spell my name the other way. They can't seem to remember that I am an "ie" rather than a "y", even when "ie" is a correct, and probably the more common, spelling. Would those people remember that it was Daphnie rather than Daphne? No, not a chance. Half the time they probably wouldn't even notice the youneeq spelling because their eyes would just see what their brain expected them to see.

I also live in a foreign country and have an English surname which is one letter different from a surname here. 99% of people get my surname wrong because they just don't see the different letter, because they're not expecting to see it. It's a total pain in the bum.

As for misspelled Christian names, a friend of mine misspelled two of her children's names. I don't think they were meant to be "youneeq", I think she just misspelled them. When I ask after her children in a text I spell their names the way she spells them, out of politeness. But it makes me cringe. I would never say anything but it still makes me cringe.

As someone with a very simple name that has a slightly different spelling - please don't do it. I have had a lifetime of people spelling it wrong and thinking me mad if I tell them. People don't remember after being told once - I have worked with my line manager for 10 years and she still spells it wrong