Eleanor or Hermione?

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Hello,

Baby 5 is due this summer and after much debate and involving our children it looks like the finalists are

Eleanor
Hermione

I’m French so we’d pronounce Hermione Her-me-on. For Eleanor I’ll probably pronounce the a in it. Also being foreign I don’t understand where each name stands from a cultural/social perspective. I guess timeless classics?

I don’t mind the HP connection, but I’m worried Eleanor might be very common/popular at the moment.

Our other children are Josephine, Iris, Theodore and Charlotte. We don’t shorten their names.

Opinions, advice and feedback welcome.

Thank you :)

Hermione has traditionally been much posher. I still don't know any kids called Hermione, even after Harry Potter. But most people have only just got their head around pronouncing it the English way!

Eleanor is very popular at the moment. No one will pronounce it how you want. Are you the same person who was asking about Eliana the other day?

I was going to say Hermione but everyone will be "correcting" your pronunciation because they'll have all learnt the way to say it from HP.

Looking at your other names, I'd be thinking along the lines of Sophie/Sophia/Sofia, Esme, Sylvie/sylvia, Rafaela, Isobel, Beatrice/Beatrix?

No it wasn’t me.

I don’t mind too much how people will pronounce Eleanor as it still sounds pretty close. We already have the situation with Iris being pronounced Ee-riss in French.

For Hermione it will sound nearly like two completely different names so I don’t know if I need to be concerned about it…

No one will pronounce Hermione the way you want it pronouncing in the UK, no matter how many times you try to correct their pronunciation because Harry Potter has ingrained it into us and that's the way it will be pronounced.

Eleanor will face the same problem because of its popularity. It will not be pronounced how you want it pronouncing and she will most likely end up as one of several Ellie's in her class.

I think Eleanor works better on both languages. Hermione just isn't as pretty. I was going to suggest why don't you shorten to Elle as you're French - Elle works perfectly and is so beautiful and classy - but then I read you don't shorten names

Sorry I must add - I do actually like Hermione. Just not as easy to carry.

Hermione is beautiful and much more memorable than Eleanor

I vote for Eleanor.

Hermione is lovely but I wouldn’t go for it as no one will say it as you want them to. Eleanor is better due to this but I agree quite popular. I agree with a pp that Beatrice is another one that would go well with the names you have and isn’t too popular

Much prefer Hermione.

Eleanor

Your children Lovely names.

I prefer Eleanor, which is ELL-en-ah in the UK (the phonetic end is US). BUT it’s very popular, and she may end up one of a million Ellies.

I quite like Hermione too, but it will always be said Her-my-on-ee here. It’s far less popular, but obviously very well known.

Or Elinor.

Hey! I like Hermione or Hermiona.

I would have said Hermione, but I really don't like the pronunciation you plan to use. So Eleanor.

Lovely kids names.

Eleanor goes beautifully with them and will avoid what will be incessant annoyance "correcting" the pronunciation of Hermione.

Eleanor.

Not Hermione.

Eleanor.

I would go with Hermione only if you don't mind it will always not be pronounced the French way. But if that bothers you then definitely go with Eleanor. Both are beautiful names.

Eleanor is a timeless name that goes well with your other children's names.
You may not shorten them but, with the exception of Iris, they all have obvious attractive abbreviations, as does Eleanor.

Both hideous.

We have an Eleanor, shockingly no one can spell it! But I still love it very much, we only know one other, I'd also plump for the Elinor spelling if I had the chance again. No one calls her Ellie BTW as she hates it, but there are lots of ways of shortening it which don't have to be Ellie...Lena, Nora, El, Lea, Leah, Anne..it's a very versatile name!

For Eleanor I’ll probably pronounce the a in it.

My French friend pronounces it Ellie-an-or, where the 'an' kinds of goes up, it sounds far more romantic than when I say it in my Northern accent.

Eleanor