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.

I agree you should pick a different name if you want an ie ending as it just looks wrong. Though it is your choice, do what makes you happy.

That spelling is offensive! It hurts my brain to look at it. If you want an 'ie' ending name, pick a name ending in 'ie'! Daphne is lovely though. 'ie' middle name?

Corrected once everyone should remember.

Hahahahahahahahaha

Best laugh I've had in ages. Teachers might remember, yes, when they see that kid and say their name 20 times a day.

In real life, no. People don't. They keep on and on insisting on spelling/saying it the way they like/think it should be/have a friend named their way. It gets so so so boring and annoying. Day after day.

OP please for the love of your child's future sanity, take on board everything said here and either spell Daphne the only correct way there is (agree with the Greek above) or choose a different IE name. Believe me, she will thank you.

14 years in my current job. I’m still having to correct people. It gets to be utterly tiresome.

I tend to look favourably on those who bother to get my name right.

Corrected once doesn’t work - or hasn’t in my case. From school and beyond.

I actually know a Xanthie rather than Xanthe. It jarred at first but got used to it.

The Daphnie spelling doesnt bother me. It's just an ugly name that can only be shortened to Daffy or Dafty which are terrible.

Love a previous suggestion of Delphine tho with Delphie for short.

Reminds me of water fleas (Daphnia), especially with that spelling.

@WombleOfThigh

Still the first return of the copy and pasted spelling OP is suggesting on Google

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

Sorry, @ChockyBicky, that made me howl!

My friends little girl is called Daphne, it’s a lovely name, but please spell it correctly.

Love Daphne, it's what DS would have been called if he was a girl. Daphnie is terrible. It just isn't one of those names with many alternate spellings, so it looks wrong because you're adding in an extra pointless letter which isn't needed to form the sound.

Nice name, dreadful spelling.

It’s not a name I like personally (I see it as a bit old and frumpy) but if you and your husband love it go for it - it doesn’t matter what your grandparents think!

Daphne - lovely.

Daphnie - to be blunt (as I assume you're asking on here so as not to get sugar coated opinions people would kindly give you in real life!) I would immediately pigeonhole with 'Krystal' and 'Destinee' as people likely to be from a certain background whose parents thought that misspelling a name somehow made it beautiful and unique. Sorry.

Awful, particularly with the ridiculous spelling - don't inflict that on a poor kid

I once came across a Deborah spelt "Debourh". It was a poor attempt to make the spelling original. I did judge. Daphnie reminds me of this. It sounds uneducated and I would feel sorry for the child

If you want a D—-ie sort of thing I always like Deenie from the Judy Blume book. But I think you’re gone now anyway ...

Daphne is a lovely name.
Daphnie is simply awful. Looks made up & will never be spelled correctly, it looks cheap and like someone either made a typo or tried too hard to be different.

How about:

Delphie ?

Sounds similar and can be reasonably spelt with an ie

It's an incredibly ugly name regardless of spelling.

How about Delphine? That's a gorgeous name.

@currentlychilled I was at school with a lovely girl whose parents spelled her name Debra to make it 'different'. Never got why you'd change a classic name to include the word 'bra' in it. So ugly.

Honestly OP I would keep the (correct) Daphne spelling. If your DC really must have a name ending with 'ie' then there are lots of lovely options as others have mentioned - Sophie, Marie, Katie etc.

Spelling Daphne as Daphnie will be a faff for your DC. I went to school with someone whose parents gave her an unusual spelling of a traditional name. The unusual spelling looked more like a completely different name than the name it was meant to be and people therefore assumed it was the completely different name which she found frustrating.

This isn't like a cultural difference in spelling, for example someone Welsh using Alys or Nansi instead of Alice or Nancy. It's a change you've made to a Greek name to make it fit an English naming convention that names ending in an 'e' sound are often 'ie'. It would be like making Phoebe Phoebie, or Chloe Chloie.

I thought Delphi was a Greek religious sanctuary in some story? It's definitely a Greek town so strikes me as a bit odd for a name. Not sure you can just stick an E on the end.

Started to google Delphi to check, it's first suggestion was a Greek municipality and the second "Delphi murders". Two teenage girls found murdered in the US. So maybe not Delphi either.