Dreya or Drea?

[nixster28]

I would like to name my daughter Drea Marie or Dreya Marie but a few people have asked how i will spell her first name as they thought it might be mispronounced.
Drea Di Matteo from Desparate Housewives has no Y but the other way is Dreya like Freya. What do you think?

if you go for drea i think people will call her dreea as in dreary .... are you sure about it?

I think you would be betetr off calling her Andrea tbh, then people wouldn't be so confused and you could still call her it for short iyswim?

I hope not to sound rude but it doesn't look too pretty on paper, it looks like a few words that aren't that positive.

A drey is the nest of a squirrel. just so you know

I'd go for Dreya - that way there is no ambiguity over the pronounciation.

Andrea; you can call her Drea for short. Drea/Dreya looks/sounds like Draylon.

Don't like Drea or Dreya.

Sorry Nixster - it looks like an anagram of dreary, it's not pretty. Have you any other ideas?

drea would be my preferred spelling, pronounced Dreya I assume? Drea de Matteo pronounces it Dray.

Do you have a nice Italian-sounding surname to go with it?

Out of the 2 you mentioned OP I prefer Dreya, but I a agree with goingfor Andrea, but I don't like that spelling really.
But thinking of her one day being an adult, I'd have her official name as Andrea with Dreya as a nn

Dreya is awful. It looks completely made up. Drea not great, either, but at least it could potentially be an Italian name.

can't you give her a whole name not just half one you heard on tv?

can't you give her a whole name not just half one you heard on tv?

She'll be nicknamed Dreary. Or Deidre.
Would you be OK with that?

I like it but I think Andrea is a beautiful name, so why not just put Andrea on the birth cert.

I really like Andie for a girl, but Andy on a boy dull

I'm really sorry but I don't like either of those.

I think Dreya will get the most correct pronounciation out of the two.

I notice your question exacted a fair few unsolicited even rude opinions over your choice (even though you hadn't asked for such feedback) as seems often the case with mumsnetters on this board who seem unable to resist with their patronising and acid comments. The anonymity of the internet; and it seems we see the british at their uncivil best.

May I say it absolutely does not sound like 'Diarrhoea' or Draylon (a term which hasn't been used for the last 20yrs, so we have someone showing their age there)

You go with what you are happy with and ignore les misables and don't let them spoil it for you.

You are not on you own Pixie-I read it as diarrhoea out of the corner of my eye I wouldn't fancy being a child with that name all the way through school.

The OP has asked us whether the spelling Drea or Dreya was more likely to rhyme with Freya. She seems to like the name and wants to avoid mispronounciations.

She has not asked us whether we like her choice of name.

I think I would look several times at Drea before knowing how to pronounce it so would probably choose Dreya, but having said that, I think Drea is the prettier word, and after all, mostly people hear your name rather than read it.

This name has really grown on me during the thread as I'd never heard it before. No more babies for me, but I think it's lovely.