Want to use the name Sophia...but not as everyone else knows it, help!

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I have a little dilemma and i don't know how to solve it!
Since i was a little girl I always wanted to name a future daughter after my grandmother who was named after her mother, the name is Sophia...except not pronounced so-fee-a but sof-EYE-a. Sophia was a rare name when i was a child, using either pronunciation. If Sophia were not now one of the most popular names in the english speaking world the unusual pronunciation would not be a problem however i don't like it said as 'so-fee-a', and she is bound to be in a class full of Sophia's and i'm sure teachers will just accuse her of 'making up silly pronunciations' or some nonsense. I don't know whether to just let this name go and cry tearfully, or if there is some way i could spell it that doesn't look horrendously silly or cre8tiv that will have people pronouncing the name correctly, or at least asking 'how do you pronounce that?'

There's a Soph-eye-a in ds's class and it's not a problem. I'm afraid that she's mostly called Soph by her friends anyway (sorry to be the bearer of bad news!) but she's always Soph-eye-a at assemblies and things.

Yes dd always gets called Soph or Soppy(?) by her friends and it makes my teeth itch.

I'd be careful and spell it so it's obvious how to pronounce it, as it is the most annoying thing to constantly have to correct people's pronounciation of your name. I am Helena, but pronounced Hel-ee-na and I don't think anyone has ever said it correctly after seeing it written down.

I do like it pronounced Soph-eye-a though