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Mey/Mei

Would you pronounce it like May or My?

Which one do you prefer if you had to choose?

No! Vemba!

Perfect! Love it!

Is the longer name Meredith?

Goodness me, I can't stand when people plan the nicknames for the child who hasn't even entered the world yet. A nn should be organic, and maybe influenced by the character of the little one.

Is her longer name going to have a made up spelling too? Meyson perhaps?

Mei is fine. Mey is awful.

Mey autocorrects in my phone to meh

Or some variant of Megan?

I would pronounce both may and prefer mei.

May.

I would pronounce both as May

If I had to say, I would prefer Mei

My name in Mandarin pinyin is Ai- Mei-Li, which means Love Beautiful

@hairybakers

Goodness me, I can't stand when people plan the nicknames for the child who hasn't even entered the world yet. A nn should be organic, and maybe influenced by the character of the little one.

Due to tradition we'll be naming her after my DH's deceased mother who had a long, non-English name so her nickname is important to us as it will be used for everyday use.

May.

What about mae?

May. My school friend was Chinese and had Mei in her name, pronounced May. Very pretty name.

@Blindleadingtheblind

Is her longer name going to have a made up spelling too? Meyson perhaps?

Mei is fine. Mey is awful.

It's not made up spelling.

Mavis?

Mei is the nicest spelling.
Not sure why all the cageyness though.... what's your mum in law's name??

Mei looks Chinese

Mey is misspelt

May is nice enough

@SilentPanic

May. Mei is a shortened version of a few Welsh boys' names (Meirion, Meilir) and is relatively common. It's pronounced may.

Mei is not pronounced May. It rhymes with Hey but not Hay.

@PeriChristmas

Mei is the nicest spelling. Not sure why all the cageyness though.... what's your mum in law's name??

That's not something I feel like sharing with such a judgy bunch.

Is it a long Greek name that is hard to pronounce in the UK? If it starts Mei then Mei, if it starts Mey then Mey. If it is pronounced May, May or My, My.
If it’s pronounced not spelt differently it will be harder to explain that is all. Your choice what you call your child.

I would pronounce them both the same with the ey sound the same as hey, obey, prey, grey, ley if that makes sense.

I prefer Mei and would pronounce it May.

@SilentPanic

May. Mei is a shortened version of a few Welsh boys' names (Meirion, Meilir) and is relatively common. It's pronounced may.

Meirion isn't pronounced May-rion. It's more like My-rion.

Whatever the long name is is going to influence what would be a good short name.

@FirstOfficerDouglasRichardson

Is it a long Greek name that is hard to pronounce in the UK? If it starts Mei then Mei, if it starts Mey then Mey. If it is pronounced May, May or My, My. If it’s pronounced not spelt differently it will be harder to explain that is all. Your choice what you call your child.

Yes i'd go with this unless it's Mey maybe.