What about Kayda?

No child should have "duh" in their name. Kids will go crazy with Duh?

Anonymous wrote:I haven't done a poll, but I would pronounce this the same way I would pronounce "Kathy." I would then wonder if perhaps this was some ridiculous obscure Irish name, of which there seem many other nicer choices or whether perhaps the parents were just trying to create insane spellings for no good reason.

Or is this a boy's name?

Signed, a parent with multiple advanced degrees who writes for a living but has no specific expertise in this area

And just how are your multiple degrees relevant? Sheesh.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No idea, OP, and never heard of this name. What is its origin?

My guess is Irish, and OP is “Irish” in that her great-great-grandfather on her mother’s side came here from Ireland, and she visited there one time.

PP, I think this is a German name.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. It's pronounced Kay-duh but I can see it's going to be a problem.

Says who?

Anonymous wrote:OP here. It's pronounced Kay-duh but I can see it's going to be a problem.

Don't do this to a child who will go through life spelling and pronouncing her name for everyone. Give her a name that she doesn't need to explain. If you love it that much then it sounds like a nice name for a kitten/cat

No clue. My first thought was Keith or Kayth.

Is it a Gaelic name? My initial guess was "Kayth" and I think there's pretty much no way the average person will pronounce that right on the first try.

Anonymous wrote:I’d say it Kay-thee. I’d also think the parents were trying to be yooneek.

Someone us going to name their unique darling "Youneek or Yonique.". You started a trend.

Anonymous wrote:No idea, OP, and never heard of this name. What is its origin?

My guess is Irish, and OP is “Irish” in that her great-great-grandfather on her mother’s side came here from Ireland, and she visited there one time.

No idea, OP, and never heard of this name. What is its origin?

Doomed to a life of
KA..
kay...eee..thee?
And do on.
I hate when "Dina" is pronounced "Dinah" but this is just asking for trouble.

No

Kay-eth?
Kayth?
Keeth?
Kaythee?


It’s probably pronounced differently from any of the above, but I don’t know how. How should it actually be pronounced?

As someone who has an unusual (but more straight forward than Kaethe) name, it is always mispronounced and has caused a lifetime of confusion. When asked my name for social purposes I don’t expect them to get it right and will answer to anything remotely similar. When asked my name for business/official purposes, my name becomes something analogous to “Lasla, L-A-S-L-A, like Larla but with an S in the middle instead of an R”*, and it still gets entered into the system wrong much of the time. My medical/prescription records have been lost multiple times.

*Obviously, Lasla is not my actual name but was just used as an example.

Carolynne above and you can also consult my cousin, Rebecah. We had hippie parents.

Just No, OP