Strange spelling of Esme

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Ezmai? Is this a name itself or just someone trying to be quirky? See also Esmai.

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Esme is one of those names that seems to have multiple pronunciations (Es-me Vs Es-may) and spellings.

I've seen Esme, Esmee, Esmay, Ezmay etc. Ezmai/Esmai is up there with the worst. Awful, tacky, just no!

Esme is the only acceptable spelling imo.

There was a memorial in a church near where I worked to an Esmai, dating from the mid 19th century.

maybe parents aren't English and choose English name spelled according their language spelling tradition.

They're born and bred Yorkshire.

Thats a bad choice then given the accent. My DD hates her name in a Yorkshire accent (so do I)

My dd has an esamae in her year group!

I said it was an odd way to spell esme but it is actually pronounced ez-a-mai aparently.
was a new one on me.
I'm a teacher so see some odd names. I wonder sometimes if people genuinely just didn't know how to spell the name they liked the sound of...

I have taught an Ezmai and many other weird and wonderful spellings. I think the most interesting was a Feebee.
It's just the way things are ... it does not alter the fact that they are kids that need the same love that all other kids do, with so-called 'normal' names. Who are we to judge?

I know a Pheobe. She's about 15 now and it drives her mad that her parents and the registrar didn't know how to spell Phoebe. She's planning to pay for a proper deed poll at 16 but feels really sad that her GCSE certificates will all have the wrong name on (late July birthday), she's said 'people will think they're fake and that the faker can't even spell either'. She's a lovely young woman and her mum just doesn't see why she cares so much

Its generally a working class thing to change established spellings on names like that. Its a class signifier and it can be a race signifier too, which makes people even more snobby about it.

It always gives me katie hopkins vibes when people judge kids names

How did they spell it? Feebee or something?

They spelt it Pheobe I think. It should be Phoebe.

I knew a Phebe. Bless her. It's mortifying for kids when they suddenly realise their parents have saddled them with an embarrassing misspelling.

Issac is another that gets me.

I once taught a Cloe

I know an esmaé - who pronounces it es- may but then I don’t think needed the additional a in the there as the e has the accent.

I also know of a Phelix and a Dayze (pronounced Daisy)

The problem with Esme is the ambiguity of pronunciation

Esmay makes it clear how you like it pronounced

I genuinely thought it was spelt Esmae 😅 ( it's not I name I've used )

I know a Phreya 😅

One of the Bratz dolls was named Cloe.

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I think eventually Esmae will be seen as a normal spelling. It's become so commonly used. Perhaps not Ezmai though.

I would think that was pronounced Ez-my if spelled Ezmai.

I also know a Dayse, pronounced Daisy, but she is South American, so no idea if it just a name where she is from.