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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We named our daughter after her grandmother (my mother), but used a different spelling.  Think, Sophia versus Sofia.  Grandmother is apparently super upset and says that grandchild is not her namesake and she is saddened.  We just liked the alternative spelling better.  I didn't think too much of it at the time, but years later still gets raised out of the blue.  What is DCurbanmom collective wisdom on whether it was a "mistake" not to use the same spelling as the namesake. [/quote]

For me, it would depend whether the honoree’s name was transliterated from another alphabet.  If grandma was Sofia in Russian, then either Sofia or Sophia are acceptable transliterations from the Cyrillic alphabet.  I knew an Armenian woman named that and either spelling was fine with her — it’s a different alphabet entirely in Armenian.  If grandma was actually named Sofia by people who use the Latin alphabet, I can understand it would be kinda weird to spell it different and claim to honor her.[/quote]

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