Name pronunciation predicament…

[JDLXNDR]

Hello,

I’m 13 weeks tomorrow and today we had a scan, and the doctor said she’s 80% sure we are having a girl. We have three beautiful boy’s names picked out and just a couple of girls names, but I’m not sure that I love them for one reason or another.

My predicament is that the name that I do like the most is Eden, but we live in Spain where unfortunately it will be pronounced as Eh-den by native speakers. My husband doesn’t think it matters as we can correct people but I’m not sure I want to have to correct people all the time.

I feel like it will annoy me, what do you all think? Would it annoy you?

It would annoy me. Going on holiday and having it mispronounced wouldn’t but living there and having to constantly correct people. Either pronounce it as they do or have something else. That said my DD has a name that people constantly mispronounce and I still love her name. Does get annoying though

Yes, it just doesn’t sound like it works in Spanish

Would Elowen work? Or Elin?

Yes it would annoy me in all honesty.
If you’re living in Spain long term I would choose a name that works there.

Hi @JDLXNDR congratulations on your pregnancy yay!!
It would be annoying to keep correcting people on how to pronounce the name xx

If you intend on her growing up in Spain then don't call her a name which will be pronounced differently by everyone in Spain. It will drive both you and her bloody bonkers.

It's pronounced the way it's pronounced, do not call her Eden if you don't want it said the Spanish way. Although I prefer the Spanish pronunciation.

My kids were born abroad and I gave them names that could be pronounced in both languages and didn't have any odd meanings either way.

Thank you all for your input! Our second choice is Maya but I feel like it’s quite common now and I don’t love it as much as I love Eden…

@JDLXNDR maya also has the pronunciation issues; my-a or may-a

Aerin
Edwina
Adeline
Edie

I'd find another name if you live in Spain long term.
And there's no point in "correcting" Spaniards in their own country!

Maria

@PickledScrump , if they're in Spain people will use spanish pronunciation.

We accidentally gave our DD a name which natives of the country we spent a long time living in couldn't pronounce. She got very used to the bizarre jumbles they came up with... but we might not have used it if we knew the problems it would cause. It was an old (scottish) family name.

Lucky you, you can give her a Spanish name like Amaia or Nerea or Maite or Maica or Ria and people will know how to pronounce it.

I went with Amaya :)

I absolutely love this name - I’ve got a Spanish friend who is called Amaya and I’ve always thought it’s a gorgeous name. Congratulations!

Pretty name

Thanks so much :)

Congratulations!

Amaya is lovely. Seeing this thread resurrected, I wondered if Eden could have been spelled Iden? Would that have got the Spaniards pronouncing it correctly?

Love this name but teach a child with this spelling and have a mental block on the pronunciation 😳 I'm normally so good at hearing a name and sticking to that but for whatever reason I say A-MY-A all the time and she's A-MAY-A (obvs because spelling!) but I just get it wrong all the time, it's so odd 😖 I only teach her every other week and each time I have to recommit to the right one.

Now I've written it I'm not even sure I've got it the right way round 😩 🤪

Just hope people are not as menopausally forgetful as me in your daughter's life 😂

Thanks for the update OP. Best wishes to your family