Help with spelling this baby name !

[mayse10]

Hello- please be kind I’ve seen some awful comments on similar posts !

myself and partner finally agree on our little girls name. Ada

however the next barrier is how we spell this. I don’t really like the Ada spelling as it is very very short. I liked the spelling Adah, I think it added a softness to it but does it look like I’m trying to spell ADHD 🤣But I know it could also be spelt Aida.

so….

Ada
Adah
Aida

kindness please 🙏🏼

Only Ada

Aida could be Ida. Adah looks wrong.

Keep it simple, Ada.

Ada. It’s a beautiful name. I think the h takes away from it and is unnecessary. Just Ada.

If I read Ada or Aida I would read/say as Ay-da.

If I read Adah I would read/say as Ah Dar. So I would say Ada or Aida to avoid the risk of a lifetime of mispronunciation (unless its just me 🤣)

Adah - ay-DAH
Aida - aEEda ?

Ada

Definitely not Adah, it looks like you'd pronounce it Adder, or like Ah-Dar (Ta-Da!)

Aida will be confused with Aïda (Eye-ee-dah) all the time. Adah looks like you’re trying too hard to be individual and will also be mispronounced as above. Give your child an easier life and just choose Ada!

If you want it pronounced Ada, spell it Ada. Adah I would pronounce A-dah (like Tah-dah!). Aida is a different name and is pronounced Eye-ee-da.

Ada.
Adah looks like it would be Add-a. I find the spelling ugly.
Aida looks like Eye-da or Eye-ee-da

Ada. As in Ada Lovelace who wrote the world's first computer programme. Also Lord Byron's daughter. Amazing woman. A wonderful name for your little girl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

Aida is pronounced Ayeeda
Adah looks very odd and would be ADAH
Ayda looks like a different language or that you don't know how how to spell Ada.

It's a brilliant name. I wouldn't mess with perfection.

If I read Ada or Aida I would read/say as Ay-da.
If I read Adah I would read/say as Ah Dar

This ^

Don't give a made up spelling to a known name. Your dd will have a lifetime of having to correct spellings.

Use Ada, as the name is spelt, if you are using the name.

The only way you can spell it is Ada.

Aida is ay-ee-dah
Adah would rhyme with tadah!

Thank you for the comments however I would just like to point out Adah is not a made up spelling? It derives from the biblical wife’s of Lamech and daughter of Elon in the Bible in Christian tradition

Is it pronounced Aid-ah or AhDa?

I just watched a TV series where one of the characters was pronounced Ah Da

Anyway, go with the correct spelling. 7+ decades of having to explain a spelling would be tedious for her.

No this is one name you shouldn't change

If you're calling her Ada then it should be spelt Ada

Go with Ada.
Your kid will spend her life telling people how to spell it if you go any other way.
Surely the joy of the name is it has 3 characters and only 2 letters.
She'll be the first in the class to write her name

Sorry I think it’s just Ada
I don’t think aida looks nice, it looks like you’ve lost a few letters from a longer name, and Adah looks like you added a h the way lots of people change is to ys, even if it is from the bible. it looks more like ah-dar too.

I think ada is lovely.
you could also consider a longer name with ada as the nn Like, adaline or adalia

She’ll thank you for the shortness of it! If you must then Ayda seems to be the best option, other spellings just don’t look right and cause confusion for what is a very simple name.

Ada and Adah aren’t the same name though.

Yes, Ada is a soft sound. Adah makes that A hard like in Adam. Aida could be read as Ida. Keep it simple as Ada, it's lovely.

Er, I think the Jewish tradition got there first!

@AmiablePedantperhaps they did first! I never insinuated otherwise.

Ada and Adah are different names and pronounced differently. I like both but if you like the pronunciation of Ada you need to spell it like that!

Ada- Its ok and the most widely known spelling

Adah- I initially read it in my mind as Adder and assumed it was a male version of Ada or a mis-spelling of Adam. Awful.

Aida- I used to go cross stich, and the material used is spelt like this. I was born abroad, and would pronounce this the exact same as Ada

Ada on its own is perfectly fine. I love it as it can't be shortened to anything . If you really want to lengthen it, then I would say Ayda as that can't be mistaken for another way of saying it.