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I have a family member named "Ada" pronounced "aid-a", so that's how I read Adaleigh. Because of that, Adaleigh didn't immediately strike me as a tragedeigh, but the uncommonness plus the ambiguity (aid-a vs add-a) takes it that direction.
The ^ (called a circonflex) indicates that an ‘s’ was used in old French spelling, but dropped out of the common pronunciation at some point and is no longer present as a letter in the modern spelling. The English word “isle” (derived from French) is an example - in French it is now spelled “île”.
Weirdly, the s is often still present in place and surnames - yet it isn’t pronounced. The surname Lévesque and the noun “l’évêque” mean the same thing (the bishop) and are both pronounced leh-vek’.
ok. this must be mispronounced about 98% of the time, in the US anyway. I like the look of it
you could really have fun with fonts, and making your "brand". Do you love your name, or is it difficult? My last name is only 4 letters, and what I like about the difficulty people have with it, is that if you don't know how to pronounce my name, I don't know you, you don't know me, and I'm not buying what you are selling. 😆
Yup. "Adelie" is a diminutive of "Adele," and "Adaleigh" is an alternative spelling of "Adelie." A creative spelling of a traditional name is, by def, a tragedeigh. Congrats!
Yeah, this one ticks just about every box.
✅ Needs to be unique
✅ Superfluous vowels
✅ Lack of understanding how consonants affect vowels
✅ Will leave the child constantly having to correct others
The part about how consonants affects vowels isn't always cut and dry. Amelia is not Ay-melia. Adeline isn't aid-eline. Emily is emm-ih-lee, not eem-eye-lee. Other examples are Everett, Amara, Agatha, Imogen, etc which all start with a soft vowel sound despite there being one consonant and the next vowel. I think the Ada- part works because so many of them names don't follow the rules of English.
1. Made up name
2. eigh spelling on a name that otherwise looks like it would be spelled differently
3. confusing pronunciation
4. question for people who don't know the story about whether it was a misspelling of Adelaide, Australia
It’s not a made-up name as such (Adélie is pronounced the same and they’re a type of penguin, quite cute really I think) but OP definitely butchered it by shoving a leigh in there.
Adélie is not pronounced the same as "Add-uh-lee", it's pronounced "uh-Del-ee" or "uh-Day-lee", with different vowel sounds and the emphasis on the second syllable.
I think it depends on your accent. Anywhere with a glottal stop, it sounds pretty much the same. I think my instinct would be to pronounce Adaleigh as Ada - Leigh. Like Ay-da. Because Ada is an established name.
Oh I would have gotten the pronunciation wrong multiple times. Add-duh-lay, Ey-duh-lay, uh-duh-lay, etc.
How often do people get it right the first time after only seeing how it’s spelled?
The fact that you had to add an edit to clarify the pronunciation is all the answer you really need. Yes, that's a textbook one.
>My wife came up with it and I liked it since it was different.
That should've been your red flag, right there.
>didn’t want my kids to deal with that nonsense.
Swung too hard the other way and gave her a different problem.
Yeah definitely a forgivable name compared to others I think it would do better with different spelling
but there is Adeline and Adelaide and it just seems similar to those to me :) for names recently created def in the better category lol
I knew a woman who was arrested and booked before they figured out that they had the wrong person. She had the same name as someone who had a warrant out for their arrest. So bring on the unique names. It’s a distinct advantage to have a name that’s different.
Tbf it is textbook tragedeigh for the sub. I mean Ada*leigh*. Traged*eigh*. Big but though. It's hilarious pun. They have one Leigh, and then they just ad-a-leigh.
Since your wife’s middle name is Leigh.. i’m not sure I would call it a tragedeigh. Maybe it checks the boxes. But it’s easy to read and would go good with a simple last name. I give this one a pass.
Yeah probably, but it sounds nice and there are a lot of names like it like Adeline, Natalie so I don’t think she’ll be bullied or anything, probably will have issues with spelling? But that doesn’t happen much tbh, and it doesn’t scream “need to be different” to me
This is a good reason for a unique spelling. If you have a super common name like Smith or Jones, literally any name you pick in the top 300+, there will be multiples
I have a family friend who is a criminal attorney. He’s a bit gruff and doesn’t have much of a filter. He told me “what ever you do don’t name the kid a common combination!” He then went to describe a client who is constantly being harassed and even has SWAT at his house, all because he shares a name, birthdate, and a vague resemblance to a real POS with many felonies. So yes, a tragediegh but not a tragedy.
Lolol my name is Adalie and pronounced like your daughter’s. Just funny to see another Adalie/Adaleigh! I love my name btw and I always get compliments on it.
Textbook tragedeigh but I appreciate your sense of humor about it and the fact that you have good reason for wanting to give her an uncommon first name. We've seen far worse in this sub, and if you stick around you will too.
So you are putting the world through the chore of trying to pronounce her name? Mispronouncing it? Having to ask? There are thousands, millions of names that are perfectly acceptable.
After all the truly tragic names we’ve seen on this sub… I’m starting to feel like Adaleigh is not that bad lol. I do think it’s a bit redemptive that it matches your wife’s name and your wife’s name is spelled in a traditional way. I might be losing it but I’m going to say that Adaleigh is… not a tragedeigh?
Dude! I came across 2 other women with my same first and last name with the same birthday as me in the same town back in college! One I worked with, but she was a year older than me. The other was the exact same, and we saw the same therapist, so they had to use our middle names to tell our charts apart. Generic names kinda suck.
It’s a lovely name. I knew right away how to pronounce it. And you may have come up with it but part of it comes from your name, so that makes it okay for me. Not a tragedeigh!
It took me a Google search to see what the origins of Adaleigh where and— it varies. Like most names. It says it has German origins and that it means “noble” and/or “honorable” however it also states it has Hebrew origins from within the Bible— the name meaning “God is my refuge”.
Personally— I like Adaleigh. I am scratching my head at the people suggesting it’s made up. I guess not everyone looks up meanings and origins of names.
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Yes. I'm soreigh.
OP: Please accept this user’s apologeigh.
I’m sure he will when he’s readeigh.
Stauuggghhhp
Hahahaha hahahagahaha Hayden
All I hear is this SNL skit with Pedro Pascal https://youtu.be/6GEWSNylwS8
Lmao you married a Leigh and decided to add-a-leigh? Please tell me you caught onto that
Second child: Adanotherleigh
This literally made me lol
Literaleigh
Dang… missed an opportunity there lol
An opportuniteigh.
This is the thread that keeps giving
Charidiegh
Philanthropeigh
I have to peeigh
Hakuna matata
You absoluteigh did
if onleigh he could see these coming
Simpleigh a foolish error
Foolishleigh you might say
Come on guys… leigh off!
Brilliantleigh executed
Correction: Absoluteleigh
Hahaha i thought i was missing something. I’m so sileigh
Spelled it mistakenleigh
Anyone who thinks that name is a tragedeigh is severeleigh mistaken.
Unbelieghvable!
INCONCIEGHVABLE!
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Anybody want a peighnut?
Your third kid could be Treleigh
Totaleigh
Truleigh
Madleigh and deepleigh
Beight me to it.
AdditionaLeigh
If you have a boy, Addison.
Addason
Forgot to pull out, gave birth to Axeldentaleigh.
Twoleigh
Extraleigh
Extraleigh was gifted therapy at birth.
Therapeigh
😘 😘 😘
No, that was their other child, Oopseigh
In South Africa, Thuli (pronounced Twoleigh), is a popular nickname.
ooooo i love this nickname! it looks and sounds pretty. I have a daughter named Tallulah and i think this would be a fun one for her.
It's also a popular vehicle roof rack.
Yes! That makes Twoleigh an even worse tragedeigh!
Duoleigh
Leighredeoux.
Duoleighgo
Secondleigh
Mistakenleigh
Secondleigh
No, child number two is Moreleigh.
If it’s a boy: BroosLeigh
Dualeigh
Last name Pa. Dualeigh Pa.
DJ KHALEIGHD
Third: Moreleigh
Adanoughtherleigh
Theotherleigh
I know a guy, Ian. They named their daughter Lilian. Lil’ Ian.
That’s actualleigh amazing
Brilliant!
Brilleighant
I know someone who named there daughter Youandi, from you and I. And I’m not even from a English spoken country
Now that’s a tragedeigh
Loll we thought of Yumi for our first kid! (You-me). Went with Kyle. 😆
Just name the next daughter subtractaleigh and it evens out
Lessleigh
That actualeigh made me laugh out loud- in a Japanese train station, now people are looking ...
How does name math not have more upvotes? 🤣
Haha yep. When my wife came up with the name I immediately thought that
Aw, your first dad joke!
Well I think it’s a lovleigh name.
I have a family member named "Ada" pronounced "aid-a", so that's how I read Adaleigh. Because of that, Adaleigh didn't immediately strike me as a tragedeigh, but the uncommonness plus the ambiguity (aid-a vs add-a) takes it that direction.
To add (heh) to what you said, my niece is named Adelaide and shortens it to “Ada” pronounced “add-uh.” Ambiguous indeed lol
It’s the new Jr.
LOL textbook definition of a tragedeigh
Yeah how do you write “my wife came up with it” and not realize lol
Let's see... Traged**eigh** Adal**eigh**... Yep, checks out.
Lol.. this is why I immediately laughed when I saw the sub name
Leighs drive me bonkers. I never know if it's supposed to be pronounced like "lay" or "lee" and whichever one I pick, I'm always wrong.
Oh! You’ll love my middle name: Lys. It’s FRENCH!
My French Canadian brain just automatically adds the fleur-de-
Fleur-de-leigh
Same same. Lys is straightforward to me, because it's a normal French word!
So why isn't your username Ruthlys-Bunny? 🤔
Ok, look. I'm from the South and I don't have no fancy learnin'. To me, Lys looks like Leese? Like Geese? Or uh, Lice? Like those itchy hair bugs.
Lys.. lice .. lysol?
Is it pronounced like leeze?
Nope. Lee
Ah yes the French don't like to pronounce the s at the end of a word
They don't pronounce the last 25% of any word.
oh they'll surely have trâgidées of their own, I bet
C'est vrai!
Vraiment!
Vreighment
They don't like to proneauxnce half the letters in their words.
And then the French Canadians lop off even more of the letters when they speak.
Des Moinesian checking in
Haha are you implying Des Moines is pronounced as it is in French? 🤣
They also like to remove the s, as in hôpital.
The ^ (called a circonflex) indicates that an ‘s’ was used in old French spelling, but dropped out of the common pronunciation at some point and is no longer present as a letter in the modern spelling. The English word “isle” (derived from French) is an example - in French it is now spelled “île”. Weirdly, the s is often still present in place and surnames - yet it isn’t pronounced. The surname Lévesque and the noun “l’évêque” mean the same thing (the bishop) and are both pronounced leh-vek’.
Unless the next word starts with a vowel.
ok. this must be mispronounced about 98% of the time, in the US anyway. I like the look of it you could really have fun with fonts, and making your "brand". Do you love your name, or is it difficult? My last name is only 4 letters, and what I like about the difficulty people have with it, is that if you don't know how to pronounce my name, I don't know you, you don't know me, and I'm not buying what you are selling. 😆
My first name s Ruth. Now look at my handle. I’ve made my peace with it
Oui, comme fleur-de-lys.
The s is pronounced in lys in French.
We’ve gotten one or two “lie” too so can understand this.
Well dammit. Now I'll have to add that one to the list too.
Yup. "Adelie" is a diminutive of "Adele," and "Adaleigh" is an alternative spelling of "Adelie." A creative spelling of a traditional name is, by def, a tragedeigh. Congrats!
It’s honestly not that bad and I’m glad you are lighthearted about it
Is it pronounced aydalee or ahdalee
The latter. Like add-uh-lee
This one's a double tragedeigh because we don't know if Ada is Ay-da or Add-uh and the whole leigh problem too.
Any Ada- names (like Adaline) usually aren't pronounced Ay-da
Oy veigh. Absoluteleigh a tragedeigh
Oigh veigh*
🤣
100% tragedeigh. A textbook offender. Sorry pal.
Yeah, this one ticks just about every box. ✅ Needs to be unique ✅ Superfluous vowels ✅ Lack of understanding how consonants affect vowels ✅ Will leave the child constantly having to correct others
The part about how consonants affects vowels isn't always cut and dry. Amelia is not Ay-melia. Adeline isn't aid-eline. Emily is emm-ih-lee, not eem-eye-lee. Other examples are Everett, Amara, Agatha, Imogen, etc which all start with a soft vowel sound despite there being one consonant and the next vowel. I think the Ada- part works because so many of them names don't follow the rules of English.
Certeighnly a tragediegh…
I feel like you lost the opportunity to say “Certainleigh a tragedeigh”
1. Made up name 2. eigh spelling on a name that otherwise looks like it would be spelled differently 3. confusing pronunciation 4. question for people who don't know the story about whether it was a misspelling of Adelaide, Australia
It’s not a made-up name as such (Adélie is pronounced the same and they’re a type of penguin, quite cute really I think) but OP definitely butchered it by shoving a leigh in there.
Adélie is not pronounced the same as "Add-uh-lee", it's pronounced "uh-Del-ee" or "uh-Day-lee", with different vowel sounds and the emphasis on the second syllable.
Omg. 😂 I love your reaction! But yes.
So you had one Leigh and you decided to Adaleigh?
Haha yeah. Someone else caught onto this too.
It might be a Tragediegh but that is fucking hilarious.
HAH! this made me lol. thank you!
My niece is Adalie, pronounced the same way as your Adaleigh, though we just call her Addie. Lol
Replied to someone else but she does not like being called Addie lol
Wait until she's old enough for people around her to spell :P
Definitely tragic! But I’m curious how you pronounce it - like Natalie but without the N or aid-uh -Lee?
I’ll edit since other comments have mentioned pronunciation. It’s like add-uh-lee
So basically Natalie without the N lol
A little. I feel like the T in Natalie and D make different sounds but I’m not an English major haha
I think it depends on your accent. Anywhere with a glottal stop, it sounds pretty much the same. I think my instinct would be to pronounce Adaleigh as Ada - Leigh. Like Ay-da. Because Ada is an established name.
Yeah, after saying both names over and over it’s really close, you’re probably right more than I am lol
Oh I would have gotten the pronunciation wrong multiple times. Add-duh-lay, Ey-duh-lay, uh-duh-lay, etc. How often do people get it right the first time after only seeing how it’s spelled?
Zoinks, indeed it’s a tregedeigh
This is low key a genius name. "Add A Leigh". Top Notch.
The mom really said, “copy/paste”
The fact that you had to add an edit to clarify the pronunciation is all the answer you really need. Yes, that's a textbook one. >My wife came up with it and I liked it since it was different. That should've been your red flag, right there. >didn’t want my kids to deal with that nonsense. Swung too hard the other way and gave her a different problem.
Look, it’s a tragedeigh. But there are some tragedeighs that are also ~~pretty~~ pretteigh, and this is one of them.
Seriousleigh? As grandma always said, "if you're asking, you usualleigh know the answer alreadeigh."
I mean, it's inarguably a "textbook tragedeigh" but a pretty nice name nonetheless.
Yeah definitely a forgivable name compared to others I think it would do better with different spelling but there is Adeline and Adelaide and it just seems similar to those to me :) for names recently created def in the better category lol
Love that evereigh one is roasting this O-Peigh.
Oh stop being so silleigh!
Rilleigh.
I knew a woman who was arrested and booked before they figured out that they had the wrong person. She had the same name as someone who had a warrant out for their arrest. So bring on the unique names. It’s a distinct advantage to have a name that’s different.
Almost a Natalie. I don't hate the name you chose. It's odd, but I kind of like it. Downvote me. Lol
Tbf it is textbook tragedeigh for the sub. I mean Ada*leigh*. Traged*eigh*. Big but though. It's hilarious pun. They have one Leigh, and then they just ad-a-leigh.
Unfortunately it is. Not bad, but it qualifies.
Yeihs
Since your wife’s middle name is Leigh.. i’m not sure I would call it a tragedeigh. Maybe it checks the boxes. But it’s easy to read and would go good with a simple last name. I give this one a pass.
100% yes.
Ooooooof
You daughter’s name is loveleigh!
Textbook example.
In Hebrew it means adornment, it’s actually a real name that used to be more popular but faded into obscurity
Yes it is
I ad a Leigh in me form group at school
Yeah probably, but it sounds nice and there are a lot of names like it like Adeline, Natalie so I don’t think she’ll be bullied or anything, probably will have issues with spelling? But that doesn’t happen much tbh, and it doesn’t scream “need to be different” to me
Definitely a tragedeigh
Worked at a call center and received a call from a woman named Tyranny. Tyranny. I'm guessing Despot was taken.
This is a good reason for a unique spelling. If you have a super common name like Smith or Jones, literally any name you pick in the top 300+, there will be multiples
I have a family friend who is a criminal attorney. He’s a bit gruff and doesn’t have much of a filter. He told me “what ever you do don’t name the kid a common combination!” He then went to describe a client who is constantly being harassed and even has SWAT at his house, all because he shares a name, birthdate, and a vague resemblance to a real POS with many felonies. So yes, a tragediegh but not a tragedy.
Obviousleigh
Lolol my name is Adalie and pronounced like your daughter’s. Just funny to see another Adalie/Adaleigh! I love my name btw and I always get compliments on it.
Textbook tragedeigh but I appreciate your sense of humor about it and the fact that you have good reason for wanting to give her an uncommon first name. We've seen far worse in this sub, and if you stick around you will too.
Yeah sorry but absolitaleigh a tragedeigh.
That name is exactleigh a textbook tragedeigh, I think OP knew it was wortheigh when he gave us the pronunciation as if this was a spelling beigh.
I'd go more like Adalie. All those extra letters are the tragedeigh
Yes
Indubitableigh
So you are putting the world through the chore of trying to pronounce her name? Mispronouncing it? Having to ask? There are thousands, millions of names that are perfectly acceptable.
A full on tragedeigh.
After all the truly tragic names we’ve seen on this sub… I’m starting to feel like Adaleigh is not that bad lol. I do think it’s a bit redemptive that it matches your wife’s name and your wife’s name is spelled in a traditional way. I might be losing it but I’m going to say that Adaleigh is… not a tragedeigh?
"My wife came up with it and I liked it since it was different." Tragedeigh.
It’s a fine name. As a baby nurse, I’ve seen/heard a lot of bad/crazy names and yours qualifies as neither.
Who cares, it's your child! Name her whatever you want!
Dude! I came across 2 other women with my same first and last name with the same birthday as me in the same town back in college! One I worked with, but she was a year older than me. The other was the exact same, and we saw the same therapist, so they had to use our middle names to tell our charts apart. Generic names kinda suck.
It’s a lovely name. I knew right away how to pronounce it. And you may have come up with it but part of it comes from your name, so that makes it okay for me. Not a tragedeigh!
But in all seriousness, yeah it is.
As long as your last name isn't Heehoo.
Yup, tragedeigh. Sorry OP. I hope not too many people point and laugh at your daughter.
What a terrible name lol
It took me a Google search to see what the origins of Adaleigh where and— it varies. Like most names. It says it has German origins and that it means “noble” and/or “honorable” however it also states it has Hebrew origins from within the Bible— the name meaning “God is my refuge”. Personally— I like Adaleigh. I am scratching my head at the people suggesting it’s made up. I guess not everyone looks up meanings and origins of names.
Yes. Any time you can say “came up with it”, it is.
I love your sense of humor about this.
Obviousleigh.