I’m sick of everyone saying my poor daughter’s name wrong – people say I signed her up for a lifetime of misery
I’m sick of everyone saying my poor daughter’s name wrong – people say I signed her up for a lifetime of misery
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A MUM has been accused of signing her daughter up for a lifetime of misery with the unique name she gave her. Em took to TikTok to admit she's getting frustrated with people constantly pronouncing her little girl's unique moniker wrong, and said it happens everywhere she goes.
![[Woman in a car expressing frustration that people mispronounce her daughter's name.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/a0066db1-9e59-46d4-aa6d-527abf617335.jpg?strip=all&w=576)
"This happens every time we go out," she sighed. Recalling how she'd been in Home Bargains with her 13-month-old daughter Elae - pronounced L.A. - Em said the woman on the checkout had asked what her name was. But when Em told her, she misheard it, and called her "Ella".
![[Woman in car discussing the baby name Elae.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/aa7bca29-20bd-4cc3-9bba-d9bb235323ce.jpg?strip=all&w=576)
Em then corrected her, but could see her "brain working" as she was "trying to figure it out". "I can see that they're thinking that I've spelt her name with two letters," she continued in a video on her TikTok page. "And you can see I'm trying to figure it out.
"Like has she really put two letters as her name on her birth certificate?. "No, no I haven't!". And the mistake even happened in the doctors too. "The doctor comes out, 'Ely, room one'," she said. "Sorry what? Ely?. "Why would I call my daughter, Ely? It's not Ely.
"Like why are people just not getting it? I don't understand.". While Em is fully aware the name isn't "everyone's cup of tea", she said she's always been a fan of unusual monikers. "And I can guarantee that there's gonna be no other girl in her school called this name," she insisted.
"(But) I feel like this poor girl for the rest of her life is gonna have to justify her name to everybody!". WHILE you don't have to follow a legal process to change your name, you may need a Deed Poll to change the moniker on documents such as your driver's license and passport.
