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[blitzgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm not preg, but we are currently ttc.
I think I've found a girl's name I like, Mikayla Grace. So what do you think?
(I realize that many people don't like any spelling but Michaela, but I really don't like that spelling.)

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[blitzgirl.livejournal.com]

It's just that I picture several people I know saying Michael-ah. *Shudder*

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Nobody would do that. I don't know a single person who doesn't know how Michaela is pronounced. And trust me, it's a lot easier to correct people on pronunciation than it is to explain that spelling, especially since by the time she's 5 days old, everyone you know will know how to say it. If it's Mikayla, people are going to be making "wtf?" faces for the rest of her life.

If you're totally not going to budge and use Michaela, can I suggest some other names that you might like? I'm just saying, if you use the name Mikayla, people are going to assume she's ten years old for the rest of her life.

Molly
Madeline
Amelia
Eliza
Sadie
Josephine (she could go by Joey or Josie)
Delilah (Lilah or Delia)
Lucy
Charlotte
Olivia

They all sound good with Grace, they're all ones that are cute on little kids but won't sound tacky when she's an adult.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

My old best friend is actually a Michaela...Michael-uh.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Well, then that's the ignorance of her parents really not knowing how to pronounce a perfectly normally spelt name.

[mymouthblooms.livejournal.com]

I'm leaning towards personal decision. Ann-uh vs. Aw-nuh situation.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that has more to do with with where you live.
Ana pronounced one way is very Spanish. It's the same with Anne/Anna. They are pronounced the same if you live in Germany..

Michaela as Michael-uh is not, as far as i'm aware.. legitimate anywhere.

[tigermilk.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was me logged in somewhere else.

Anyway, I have other reasons to believe that it was a preference situation. Her name was Jaime Michaela. Her parents gave her original name of Jaime Michael, banking on that she was a boy. When she turned out to be a girl, they added the 'a' to Michael to make it Michaela. Both parents crinkled their nose at 'Mi-kay-la' pronunciation.

Her parents were not ignorant people. They didn't like 'Mi-kay-la', and didn't like Michelle as an alternative.

Since I grew up with 'Michael-uh', I had no idea that the pronunciation of Michaela was different.

This isn't the first time I've run into this (the boy name transformed by an 'a' to a girl name). A staff member I knew was named Johna. Her father really wanted a boy to name John.

[sevensevenfour.livejournal.com]

I actually do pronounce it Michael-ah upon first seeing it. Then I have to correct myself. I do this every time I see Michaela somewhere. I also really like the name Mikayla (especially spelled this way over Michaela.) It would be one of my favorite names, but my top girl name is Kaylea (Kay-lee) and I think they're too similar. I'm not a huge fan of the name Grace, but I don't think it sounds bad with Mikayla.