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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.)

Comments

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Mikayla is a horrible, tacky spelling, and if you're not going to use Michaela, I'd recommend not using the name at all. I have a really hard time picturing the name Mikayla on a 50 year old woman without laughing.

Grace is great, and Michaela Grace would be great, but I know you said you don't like it. It's just the spelling that's awful.

[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.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I know I'm pretty much the only person here who does like the spelling Mikayla. It just seems an entirely different name to me than Michaela, just like Jaclyn is different from Jacqueline (IMO).
I think Mikayla Grace sounds good.
However, I do agree with tryyingtoevolve that the spelling/name will probably always be dated to this year/century. But then again, if you don't mind that, who cares? =)

[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.

[sevensevenfour.livejournal.com]

Not the only one. I like Mikayla too. =)

[amai-amaya.livejournal.com]

Seconded :> The name itself is not really that great but Mikayla definitely beats Michaela!

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

It's just SOOOO trendy. It is the polyester bell bottoms and wing collars, lace fingerless gloves and acid-washed jeans of babynames... And it just seems dated already to the late 90s or so. It's not a name that will grow and age gracefully and seem pretty forever.

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

I AGREE.

[straight-outta.livejournal.com]

I like Grace. Mikayla is very overdone and I personally do not like it, but if you like it, I am glad that you found a name you like!

[heather80.livejournal.com]

For the record, I FAR prefer MiKayla to Michaela, so it's not everybody who likes it better the other way :).

[neroli.livejournal.com]

I remember hearing and seeing Michaela for the first time (my first time, that is) back in the early 1990s, and being swept away by how lovely it was. It sounded so sophisticated and elegant, like a dark red jewel...

Then people started dumbing down the spelling, either because it was too hard for them, or because they thought it would be too hard for everyone else. And the name went from a rare and beautiful ruby to a bit of cheap colored plastic, a poor imitation of the real thing. :(

Don't turn a beautiful rich name into plastic. If people don't get "Michaela" on sight, they will learn.

[mistressfishie.livejournal.com]

Not a fan of the name Mikayla in general, but I wouldn't spell it Michaela. I do see it as "Michael-ah." Just Kayla is pretty though.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

I support this comment.

[lneef.livejournal.com]

Mikayla seems "dumbed down", as someone put it upthread. Tacky. It's like Kimberlee or Jacklyn or Katelynne. Creative spellings do NOT improve a name.

If you don't like the spelling Michaela, I'd look for a different name.

[bluekoala.livejournal.com]

I agree entirely.

[bluekoala.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY!

[dearxannbellina.livejournal.com]

My little sister's name is Mikayla, so I may be a bit biased.

When my parents named her, Michaela wasn't a very popular name and my brother and I were young. They let us choose how to spell it, in a way that made the most since to us.

I'm sure that people in baby name communities know how to pronounce Michaela, but most of the general population still isn't familiar with Gaelic pronunciation. We have never had a problem with teachers, or doctors trying to pronounce her name. However we're watched countless people be called Michael-uh at first glance.

Use the name that YOU like.

[thedaytheystop.livejournal.com]

I love Grace! It's a perfect, classic middle name and I think it does go well with the sound of Michaela/Mikayla.

IMO, definitely definitely go with Michaela. This is a name that your future daughter will have to live for for the rest of her life--on forms, her license, her passport, her wedding programs. The pronunciation is the same, so, as one of the people who really, really hates the y-trend and the dumb simplification of names, go with Michaela. The classier spelling is so, so much better. Think about her business cards--who is going to take a businesswoman named Mikayla seriously?

I think my hatred for Mikayla stems also from my childhood--I went to elementary school in a very rural, poor part of Appalachia, and there were a Mikayla and a McKayla in my grade. They both lived in trailers and Mikayla missed a week of school in second grade because she had lice. So, yeah, I have bad poor-Appalachian-white-people associations with Mikayla/its variants. Go with Michaela.

Michaela Grace sounds beautiful.

[clfrnahreicme.livejournal.com]

love the name Mikayla Grace, but Mikayla is a little hard on the eyes.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Michaela and Mikayla are pronounced exactly the same way. When you call out your daughter's name, it's not going to matter how it's spelled, so why not just spell it the proper way?

But either way, I have a difficult time picturing either spelling on an adult.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

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

[minga13.livejournal.com]

I cannot stand the spelling Michaela coz I always want to say it Michael-uh. If you like Mikayla, go for it!

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

To me, Michaela is pronounced like it would be in Hebrew - MEE-cha(as in Chanukah)-ELL-ah. And when I see it spelled Mikayla or Mikaela, all I can think of is a snobby bratty child.

[heather80.livejournal.com]

I've only ever seen Mikayla spelled that way (or MaKayla, which I don't like much). To me, Michaela looks creative.

[xopink-heartsox.livejournal.com]

I think that is a very pretty name :)

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Hate it.
trendy and, whilst that's not a bad thing.. it's also ugly.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

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

[h-hope.livejournal.com]

I know someone who has a daughter about a year old name Makaylah. I think its horrible. People will never mis-pronounce it though, because it looks like she spelled it phoenetically Ma-Kay-Lah. Yuck. The more i'm reading in this community the more aware of the horror of trendy/popular names i'm getting to be. There was only one other girl in my entire school who shared my name, I'd hate to be in a class with 3 or 4 of the same... Name you child one of these popular trendy names and it doesn't matter how you spell it, she will always be Mikayla Last initial.

[mymouthblooms.livejournal.com]

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

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[blitzgirl.livejournal.com]

I happen to be a Pamela.

[amai-amaya.livejournal.com]

Well, you don't have to agree with me. In fact, I couldn't care less whether you do or not.
If you like Michaela better than Mikayla that's your problem and I'm not going to tell you "Oh noes, how can you like such an ugly name?" as you seem to tell everyone who likes the Mikayla version better.

I'm just not one of those "OMG unique spelling, let's point at the person who is creative" -people.

I don't like the name Michael and I don't like the name Michaela, but if I HAD to use it I would definitely use the spelling Mikayla.

And although I'm not the OP: Yes, who cares, I would totally name my kid Tiffany or Deborah because I fail to see the problem...

[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.

[o-honeybee-o.livejournal.com]

I didn't know Michaela was gaelic?

[o-honeybee-o.livejournal.com]

I definitely prefer Michaela. Actually all the Michaela's I know, are spelt like this.

[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.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

IAWTC

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[blitzgirl.livejournal.com]

I didn't say you were. I found it funny that you listed my name and I don't feel that my name "dates" me.