Calle, Callie...do you hear it as Kelly?

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I love the name Calle / Callie but for some irrational reason I don't like the name Kelly (sorry Kelly's)

When you hear the name Calle/Callie would you think it was Kelly?

I used to work with a Callie, lovely girl, pretty name. People sometime heard it as Carrie, never Kelly!

No, Callie is CAL-ee, KEL-ee

Totally different names and pronunciation 😀

Only with a kiwi accent.

I think they would sound similar in a northern Irish accent as well.

I'm a kiwi 😂

They sound different.

Don’t use Calle , people will struggle to pronounce it and to be honest it looks made up.

I know a Calle but he’s a man from Sweden. It’s a Scandi male name pronounced Cal. I wouldn’t even think to pronounce it with two syllables.

Totally different sounds. I’d use Callie though Calle would get mispronounced

Ok this is making me feel good about potentially using the name Callie :)

To be honest, I think it is a problem, especially with a kiwi accent.

USA or UK accent clearly Callie (like on Grey’s Anatomy) Auz or NZ accent there could be some confusion.

I think Callie is a lovely name, and is definitely not heard to me as Kelly.

Love the name Callie, never thought it was Kelly.

I love the name Callie and it was on my short list ☺️

Only you can decide if it sounds acceptable in your accent though!

If you live in England you're probably fine. In Ireland and the states they can sound quite similar.

I like it! Especially short for Calliope

By Ireland I mean Belfast btw, which is where I'm from. Probably wouldn't be an issue in Dublin? Not sure.

Don't use calle- it's Spanish for road.

I shouldn’t think so, but Callie is traditionally short for Caroline (or Calista or Calliope I guess) so I would give her the full name option to be on the safe side.

@ohblahdeeohblahdahlifegoeson , in some accents I hear Kelly as Callie

I wouldn't think of Calle being said as Cally, I'd think it was said as Cal

I don't like either name very much but I don't think of them as sounding similar at all, except maybe when said in an American accent where a short A tends to be closer to an E.

If I saw Calle I’d think it was pronounced Kale.

i might be a bit dim though.

Not at all. I know a wee Callie and it had never crossed my mind it was similar to Kelly. Lovely name, definitely prefer Callie to Calle spelling

Sounds more like Carly.