Ellynor?

[ILoveBrucie]

We are contemplating the name Ellynor - spelt as it sounds, for our next dc, we want to be unusual and know that Eleanor is the usual spelling but are quite keen of going slightly off centre.

Honest thoughts please - but do be gentle

However you spell it, it will still be a name that is quite common at the moment. (Common as in, there are lots of them around!)

I should know, because after agonising for 8.5 months about dds name, we settled on it, only to find that in her class at school next September, there are 3 Ellie's and 2 Eleanor's (and there's only 20 in the class!) . So basically, there are 5 girls called Eleanor, with at least 3 different spellings.

I agree that it sounds like you are just trying too hard to be "different".

My DD (12) is Eleanor (although she now refuses to answer to anything but Ellie which I think is a shame as her proper name is so beautiful.)

I am a teacher and had never taught an Eleanor in 14 years of teaching before I had her so thought it was fairly safe as unusual. Obviously other people thought the same!

I think I saw Ellie in the top 10 names in a list on here the other day but Eleanor was up at around 78.

Sorry but Ellynor looks silly and she will curse you for giving her a name that no one will spell right the first time.

If you don't like Eleanor/Elinor go for Elena or one of the other PROPER options

Like it or not, but poeple make judgements about children - and their perents - based on their names. Sorry, but (IMO), most people would think of Ellynor as the child of semi-literates. It doesn't look "original" or "different" - it looks stupid. Sorry.

Charlea looks like a typo to me - especially as "a" is next to "s" on the keyboard.

Josef is fine.

Guess this is why I would never ask for anyone's opinions regrading my own children's names. Sorry.

How about Ellennourgh?

or Ellinoare?

or Ellyyeeenooare?

You can tell I'm not taking this entirely seriously.

Unusual is going for an unusual name, not just spelling a normal name differently.

The problem with Ellynor is that in looking at it it's not like Elinor (a name I've loved since reading about the flower in Lord of the Rings and finding out that's what Sam Gamgee named his daughter) is that it looks like you've put Nor on the end of Elly.

The spelling for other people isn't such a big issue. I have a common name with many spelling variants and so have always had to spell it out, or not, if it's somewhere I don't care about like the hairdressers.

It's Elanor in Lord of the Rings.

The best made up spelling I've ever seen was

Typhphanee (Tiffany!).

It was on an American website.

Oh please don't murder a perfectly good and nice name in an attempt of being 'different'.

It does not make you look different, it makes you look semi-literate and somewhat thick.

People in RL will judge you, and they may judge your dd.

If you want to be different, choose a truly different name. Don't butcher an established name.

Thank you.

Is it time for this again already? It doesn't seem five minutes!

An awful, awful spelling of a beautiful (and my favourite) name.

Makes it sound clumpy and elephantine.

Elinor is the welsh spelling I think Elin is lovely tho and Elinor gets shortened to EL orEllie.Think Ellynor is annoying

No.

My DD is Eleanor and I like it that way personally. And anyway no-one calls her Elleenor. It's Ellie, Ella or Elenor.

Beautiful name Orm. It is my all time fave girls name. Unfortunately dh vetoed it. He wanted Emma, I wanted Eleanor, so we ended up with Emily, which we both loved, and I don't regret it, but I hunker for Eleanor still....

Which is why silly names such as Ellynor really get my goat!

I?m sorry but Ellynor ? pronounced Ellie-Nor?

You are just going to have a lifetime of spelling it out and then when people say ?oh, Eleanor ? that?s pretty? you will have to respond with ?not, it?s Ellie-nor?.
I agree with others that the MN reaction is pretty much what you will get in RL ? except that people will not say it to yr face.

I used to know a girl called Jayne, a common enough variant of Jane. She insisted that her name was Jay-nee.

Thankyou

I chose it before I knew that baby no 1 was a boy and hung on to it for DD (no 2). Had to fight off DB and SIL who wanted it for their baby but she was born 9m later...ha! So there

Hands in geek pass and walks away, head hung in shame.

Probably was mixing it up with Elidor, no excuse though

what about helena

Right - mum of Eleanor here to give my opinion

First - don't do it. Its ridiculous.
Second - it looks like the name of a house.

Well, I saw the thread title and though 'Oh, the poor soul doesn't know how to spell Eleanor'...

Eleanor / Elinor / Elenora are all fine names Ellynor just looks ignorant.

I am trying to be gentle, but really... 'tis plain awful IMHO.

UnquietDad- thanks for giving me the best laugh in ages - and I only read a few! The comment about being overtaken by ' babybrain' must be a factor with some of them ( or that's the charitable explanation).

Joseff is nice, it is just the Welsh for Joseph I think.

However, I am a children's writer and I recently had a letter from an articulate little girl asking me to include her name in my next book. Then, she said, she could show it to her friends and they would understand that it was 'real'. She is so tired of explaining it. (It is an unusual spelling of a type of wine).
Very tactfully she added in a ps that she would understand if I didn't because it wasn't a very nice name.

Think hard before you name your baby!

Oh please don't. I have an unusual name (not English as my parents aren't). Growing up and having to spell & pronounce it for people all the time was just awful. It really matters as a child. As an adult I spell it without people asking (although do still get some funny guesses).

If you are going to give a child an unusual name, make it a genuinely unusual name (and preferably relatively phonetic) rather than burdening them with having to spell something that would be otherwise straightforward (and lovely).

That website is always new to someone!