WDYT?

[danni-explains.livejournal.com]

of the name Aysia as in "Asia". and what would be a decent middle name?

Comments

[heavenisnearyou.livejournal.com]

Aysia Azure was the first thing that came to mind.

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

I like Asia, but Aysia bugs me. I could never use the name, personally, because I think it would be a strange name for kids as pale-irish-white as my husband or as obviously-american-indian-looking as me, or any combination of those things. lol. i'm not really sure why I feel that way, but I do.
Aysia is at least better than the other 'creative' spelling of the name I encountered recently - Asiah - which at first thought made me think it was pronounced "uh-sigh-uh". At least Aysia is clearly pronounced the same way Asia is.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

The name in itself is a bit more unusual. Adding the 'y' to me says "trying to hard"

[arbus.livejournal.com]

its horrible.

asia is fine, if necessary.

[perchedoutside.livejournal.com]

My name is Asia and I love it.

On my birth certificate it is spelled Ashia and it annoys me TO NO END that my mom spelled it like that. I always just spell it Asia and have since about 5th grade because I got so sick of it. I've never bothered to legally change my name because the only time people pronounce it wrong is at the doctors office and things like that. At all of my jobs I told them my name was Asia and at college I am registered at "Asia." It's just on legal documents I have to use the Ashia spelling. Don't use a funky spelling, please!

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Asia is beautiful... Aysia has a horribly unnecessary and silly letter in there that makes teachers wonder if the parents just can't spell... (yes, I teach)

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

amen! or it gives the students an opportunity to laugh at the teacher when he/she mispronounces the name in front of the class because the students think the *teacher* is the stupid for not automatically knowing how to pronounce a 'misspelled' name.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Oh more than once I've had to kindly educate my kids on laughing at teachers... I look 14 and I go to work from classes the university so getting respect from them is hard enough to add something to the mix... not to mention my children of the corn tend to be into teasing their classmates on things like that.

So PLEASE it's not hard to spell a name right... I can still remember the name Olivia horribly butchered and someone posted it here. My parents taught me that languages are an important force out there (it's the reason I speak 3, going on 4) so think tha one day someone from another language will read something like Ahleeveighuh and think 'wtf??' when Olivia is a perfectly nice and recognizable name.

Ok, I extended myself... sorry!

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Whenever teachers mispronounced my name, I always felt like they were laughing at me. I would just shrink and want to die of embarrassment, like it was my fault, lol. I've never actually considered that everybody was laughing at the teacher. As nice of a thought as it is, I don't think so, lol.

[perchedoutside.livejournal.com]

It's funny because my name is Ashia (pronounced Asia) and my mom actually said it's because she thought it was how it was spelled. My dad let her fill out the paperwork and he was like WTF!? when he saw it on my birth certificate. Lol... embarrassing!

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I almost misspelled my daughter's name! Thankfully my husband was there to correct me. Not that I didn't/don't know how to spell it, just between dyslexia and, ya know, BIRTH, my mind wasn't working properly, lol.

[hollis1975.livejournal.com]

asia is ok.

in about 20-30 years there will be a whole slew of adults cursing their parents creative attempts at being unique with names.

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not a fan of Aysia, honestly. Any name you have to explain ("as in Asia") is a bad idea, because your child will spend her whole life explaining it over and over and over. If you're really in love with the sound (I admit it's pretty), I'd go with Asia.

As far as middle names, you definitely need something not ending in A. Aysia Rosa? Aysia Diana? Sounds repetitive and odd. So something more like Lauren, Rachel, Gabrielle, Serenity, Monique. Aysia seems to work with almost any syllable count so you're lucky there. Also, it needs to not start with A, either. Aysia Anne? Aysia Angel? It doesn't flow well at all.

Here's some more names that don't start or end with A:
Rose (of course)
Grace
Danielle
Lily
Megan
Eleanor
Dell
Beatrice
Claire
Dorothy
Lotus
Lilac
Pearl
Violet
Willow
Elizabeth
Bethany
Madeline
Christine
Sophie

[danni-explains.livejournal.com]

thanks for the advice! greatly appreciated :) i think aysia is out of the thoughts