Xanthes' mums or anyone with an opinion...

[aiti72]

Hi, please help us with this... we have Kiara at home and (wanting to stay strong, modern, a little mystical and non-biblical)have listed Xanthe for this next girl. However, we'd need to think a spelling that works in Spanish and Finnish(poor girl) as well as in English -and Xante would be better for us. Is Xanthe with h the "right" spelling, i.e. would she always have to tell here it's spelled without the h? I googled Xante and a technology company came up arghh! Any advice welcome!

I only know one Xanthe and she spells it with an "h" The only think about Xante is will it be pronounced Zante like the Greek island?

Xanthe for us too....

Xanthe here too, we get lots of confusion/mis-spelling/spelling it out on the phone etc etc.

I know a Xanthe too...it is a lovely name!

Xanthe is the "right" spelling but it is a transliteration from Greek. It's a beautiful name!

Thank you for your kind advice, we have to think about this now..

ProfYaffle, I think today, unless your name is Mary or John, you'll have to spell it everywhere, so many different variations and origins.. I've spelled Kiara for three years now. And my own name!

Worked with a Xanthe. Lovely unusual name. I don't remember the actual meaning but it was something very pretty.

Means "golden" or "yellow".

I knew of a Xanthie, would that work?

My cousin's friend is called Yanthe (they decided to change the 'x')- I've never met another with the same name.

I know a Xanthe with an 'h'.

why can you not put the 'h' in.

It would save a lot of confusion!

Collision, that's exactly our problem, if we put the 'h' in it would save confusion here in Britain, but increase it in our other home countries Finland and Spain. We can't win..

Don't want to raise an old thread but... my friend's DD Xanthe took pride in the fact she had to spell her name ("that's Xanthe with an 'X'... she used to say (aged about 4)). Made her feel more special. Lets face it -- you'll have to spell it in English to a lot of people or they'll spell it with a Z.

Lovely name, btw (but DP didn't like it).

I worked with a Xanthe, would have thought without the 'h' people would be more apt to mispronounce it, no???

Xante seems like the logical Spanish version of Xanthe. It's a lovely name.

I know how it's pronounced because I'm a name geek and because I've come across it before, but I'd say that spelling it Xante rather than Xanthe would reduce the scope for error! Especially if people knwo that there's Spanish background.

Thanks for raising an old threat Chaotica, we are still undecided .

I was thinking that if Xanthes have to spell their name anyway, would it be so bad to spell it without the 'h'...

Thank you, Madame, you gave me some hope with this.