^^sorry Op I didn't see your last post. Mathias it is!

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Anonymous wrote:I knew several men and little boys with this name when I lived in Germany. They all spelled it with two ts, though: "Matthias." Is there a reason you are using the single letter t in the spelling? I like the name, but I don't like your spelling, and logically, emitting the initial t means the remaining t plus th should sound like 'th' as in "thick."

So my vote is yes, it is nice, but only with a double t.

Spelling it that way because that is how DH's father spelled his name.

DP - the name and spelling are great, separately. As someone with an unphonetic (creative) spelled name, I would change the spelling to Mattias. You're still honoring the father, but doing your son a favor by not subjecting him to a life of mispronunciations. Updating the spelling does not take away from the connection to his namesake.

I agree. Mattias. Still honors grandad but it's an improvement.

And get his birth certificate, OP...the granddad. Just to make sure. My grandfather spelled my mom's name incorrectly on hers. My grandma named my mother Adeline, and sent my grandpa to town to fill out the paperwork. He wrote down, "Addaline," as in, "add a line" which is what he thought my grandma said!

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Anonymous wrote:I like it though some will think it very New Testament. Go with what you like, not what other people say. Besides, any of our kids can decide to change their name later.

No more New Testament than Matthew, surely?

OP, I like it.

Sure, but some people have only heard the name used in the Bible, whereas Matthew is more common. Shrug.

I know a Matthias, 21 months old!

I know a Mathias, spelled with one T not two. I always think to spell it with 2 Ts; not sure why. It's a perfectly good name and not particularly confusing.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the feedback. We've decided to go with Mathias . Now to figure out a middle name.
As for spelling I appreciate the concern that it isn't authentic enough, but my FIL is Danish he spells his name exactly as I spell it in the OP and that's good enough for us.

And lest people still keep insisting that the OP is making it up!!!!, here's the Wikipedia entry for Danish badminton player Mathias Boe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Boe

I didn't say she was making it up. I said that I grew up (and still have) a name that isn't quite phonetic and it's freaking annoying. People always stumbling over your name, having to choose whether to correct people or not, and it being misspelled more often than not. If OP has strong feelings about keeping FIL's spelling, then so be it. But I wanted her to know it continues to be enough of a PITA to me that I wouldn't choose that for my kid.

That said, it's a lovely name and a good choice. But a name that starts with "Math-" will be pronounced "Math-" 99.9% of the time.

Matthew isn't phonetic either. When my kids were little and learning to read, they would pronounce it Matt-hew.

Come on, how preschoolers pronounce things is not relevant. In English, Matthew is pronounced Math-hew and Mat(t)hias is pronounced Math-ias. Little kid speak aside, adults his entire life will pronounce the name the standard English way.

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Anonymous wrote:I really like the name- although I hate the tone, I agree with the pp in Europe. Spell it the traditional way. I think it will still honor your family. It's a pet peeve of mine when people spell names wrong or get cutesy with the spelling. i know I'm not the only one who is bugged by odd spellings.

Ashlee
Jaxon
Kaleb
Jordyn

These are not names that will win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Right? And no way could anyone named something as made up/misspelled as Condoleezza become Secretary of State or someone names Kimberlé become a famous lawyer and law professor. All those weird spellings and cutesy accents!

Sigh. It was joke. I don’t like cutesy names and spellings. It makes me wonder if the person knows how to spell the name properly or if they are saddling their kids for life with a name that sounds good for a three year old.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the feedback. We've decided to go with Mathias . Now to figure out a middle name.
As for spelling I appreciate the concern that it isn't authentic enough, but my FIL is Danish he spells his name exactly as I spell it in the OP and that's good enough for us.

And lest people still keep insisting that the OP is making it up!!!!, here's the Wikipedia entry for Danish badminton player Mathias Boe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Boe

I didn't say she was making it up. I said that I grew up (and still have) a name that isn't quite phonetic and it's freaking annoying. People always stumbling over your name, having to choose whether to correct people or not, and it being misspelled more often than not. If OP has strong feelings about keeping FIL's spelling, then so be it. But I wanted her to know it continues to be enough of a PITA to me that I wouldn't choose that for my kid.

That said, it's a lovely name and a good choice. But a name that starts with "Math-" will be pronounced "Math-" 99.9% of the time.

Matthew isn't phonetic either. When my kids were little and learning to read, they would pronounce it Matt-hew.

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Anonymous wrote:Spell it correctly, OP: two ts. Mattias or Matthias.

You can tweak the spelling to the conventional form and still be honoring your FIL. The conventional spelling is the best idea in the US because spelling it "your" way makes it seem as if: a. you tried really hard to find a foreign name and made a mistake with the spelling, or b. you want it pronounced differently than Matthias or Mattias.

Really, conventional spellings are always the best. Don't go kre8ive.

Conventional for you may not be conventional for OP. Don’t go all judgy.

Conventional "for me" means the way they spell it here in Europe where I live, and where the name is common. "Conventional" does NOT mean a weird (possibly mistake) spelling that the OP insists upon because she knows one person, her FIL, who spells it that way. The word "conventional" means the way that a thing is commonly or generally done, NOT a random one-off.

Yes, I know what "conventional" means. I am just saying you can't assume that your normal is the same as other people normal.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the feedback. We've decided to go with Mathias . Now to figure out a middle name.
As for spelling I appreciate the concern that it isn't authentic enough, but my FIL is Danish he spells his name exactly as I spell it in the OP and that's good enough for us.

And lest people still keep insisting that the OP is making it up!!!!, here's the Wikipedia entry for Danish badminton player Mathias Boe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Boe

I didn't say she was making it up. I said that I grew up (and still have) a name that isn't quite phonetic and it's freaking annoying. People always stumbling over your name, having to choose whether to correct people or not, and it being misspelled more often than not. If OP has strong feelings about keeping FIL's spelling, then so be it. But I wanted her to know it continues to be enough of a PITA to me that I wouldn't choose that for my kid.

That said, it's a lovely name and a good choice. But a name that starts with "Math-" will be pronounced "Math-" 99.9% of the time.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the feedback. We've decided to go with Mathias . Now to figure out a middle name.
As for spelling I appreciate the concern that it isn't authentic enough, but my FIL is Danish he spells his name exactly as I spell it in the OP and that's good enough for us.

And lest people still keep insisting that the OP is making it up!!!!, here's the Wikipedia entry for Danish badminton player Mathias Boe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Boe

Anonymous wrote:I really like the name- although I hate the tone, I agree with the pp in Europe. Spell it the traditional way. I think it will still honor your family. It's a pet peeve of mine when people spell names wrong or get cutesy with the spelling. i know I'm not the only one who is bugged by odd spellings.

Ashlee
Jaxon
Kaleb
Jordyn

These are not names that will win the Nobel Peace Prize.

No, of course they won't. That's because the Nobel Peace Prize is won by people, not by names.

It is, however, entirely possible that a person named Ashlee, Jaxon, Kaleb, or Jordyn will win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Anonymous wrote:I really like the name- although I hate the tone, I agree with the pp in Europe. Spell it the traditional way. I think it will still honor your family. It's a pet peeve of mine when people spell names wrong or get cutesy with the spelling. i know I'm not the only one who is bugged by odd spellings.

Ashlee
Jaxon
Kaleb
Jordyn

These are not names that will win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Right? And no way could anyone named something as made up/misspelled as Condoleezza become Secretary of State or someone names Kimberlé become a famous lawyer and law professor. All those weird spellings and cutesy accents!

Anonymous wrote:Mattias.

I knew someone in graduate school who spelled it like this. I think he was Austrian.

OP here. Thanks for the feedback. We've decided to go with Mathias . Now to figure out a middle name.
As for spelling I appreciate the concern that it isn't authentic enough, but my FIL is Danish he spells his name exactly as I spell it in the OP and that's good enough for us.