how would you pronounce this first name?

[elgerber]

I knew female Jamies. Really, only knew one male. Lots of guys named James, but only one male Jamie. When he moved to town, we said, "A BOY named JAMIE???" because culturally, you just did not name a boy Jamie. It was a girl name. But he was so....manly...hot....gorgeous...that soon, no one minded.

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I have a male and a female friend both spelled Jamie.

 

[BadgerGirl84]

You all must have mispronounced the OP's name and now she's mad at everyone and have left the thread.

 

[EMom]

You all must have mispronounced the OP's name and now she's mad at everyone and have left the thread.

Maybe she pronounces "Deanne" Chel-SEE-uh.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I've also known both male and female Jamies (and also think Jaime is the Spanish version and pronounced Hi-may)

You all must have mispronounced the OP's name and now she's mad at everyone and have left the thread.

I wondered that. Hopefully she is just busy and will end the suspense soon

 

[EMom]

I have a male and a female friend both spelled Jamie.

I'm not saying there are not male Jamies. I was trying to say that where we lived, NO ONE named a boy Jamie. It was a cultural thing. Jamie was a girl name. Period. We had boy/girl Terry/Terri, Chris/Chris, Kerry/Kerri, but for some reason you did not see Jamie as a boy. We had a fair number of Jamie girls. We had a good number of boys named James.

These things vary by region.

 

[alicat8]

Around here the boys are Jaime and the girls are Jamie, generally.

I can't imagine a world where Daniel and Danielle sound the same! Which is it if they're the same-accent on the Dan or the yell??

 

[TheIncredibles!]

DD has a friend named Anastasia. Go ahead and guess how you are supposed to say that. Her parents get mad every single time somebody says it "wrong".

I say that name the way most people would - Anna stay zha. WRONG! It is said : Ahnah Stah See ya

HUH? They think it's strange that people say it the "wrong" way because to them that makes no sense.

 

[disney world dreamer]

its DEE-ANN.
i'm amazed that everyone on here seems to have no trouble.

the dr i was talking about is my endocrinologist which when i am have bouts of hyperthyroiditis i see every 4-6 weeks for a good 6 months and have been seeing him since 2007 and the name he has seemed to given me is DENNY.

my GP said he will never be able to say it so he decided on ANN.

my bff's grandma has always called me DEANNA.

one of my teachers called me DANA.

another teacher called me DONNA.

another teacher called me DIANNA

another teacher called me DIANE

another teacher called me DEAN

my parents sent a pic to a news station when i was 10 and included how to pronounce it but the guy called me DANEAN.

and a lot of others have called me DEANY

there's 10 different ways right there.

it kills me cuz nobody has problems with Leanne.
there was a Leanne in school that was in almost all of my classes from kindergarten up and nobody ever said her name wrong yet when you change the L into a D for my name everyone says it wrong.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I find it so interesting to see all the regional differences on the name Jamie. I don't know if Jamie is a traditional male name, but it is used often as a nickname for James. As a matter of fact, when my parents thought I was going to be a boy, my name was to be James Robert, with Jamie as the nickname. When I came out a girl, they had to quickly change gears and it ended up Jamie Lynn. My grandmother wasn't happy I didn't have a "feminine" name, so for the longest time it became one name to her ; Jamie-Lynn. I have met a lot of male Jamies, so I guess that's why I always associated it with the masculine version. Many of the females I know, spell it Jaime. But again, that may just be a regional thing!

 

[elgerber]

its DEE-ANN.
i'm amazed that everyone on here seems to have no trouble.

the dr i was talking about is my endocrinologist which when i am have bouts of hyperthyroiditis i see every 4-6 weeks for a good 6 months and have been seeing him since 2007 and the name he has seemed to given me is DENNY.

my GP said he will never be able to say it so he decided on ANN.

my bff's grandma has always called me DEANNA.

one of my teachers called me DANA.

another teacher called me DONNA.

another teacher called me DIANNA

another teacher called me DIANE

another teacher called me DEAN

my parents sent a pic to a news station when i was 10 and included how to pronounce it but the guy called me DANEAN.

and a lot of others have called me DEANY

there's 10 different ways right there.

it kills me cuz nobody has problems with Leanne.
there was a Leanne in school that was in almost all of my classes from kindergarten up and nobody ever said her name wrong yet when you change the L into a D for my name everyone says it wrong.

this is so strange!! I would never think anything but DEE-ANN when I look at it.

 

[smiths02]

If it makes you feel any better, they read my middle name wrong when I was graduated from high school.

To be fair, my mom spelled it Noel
It should be pronounced like Noelle or how most Americans pronounce Noel for Christmas
It was pronounced knoll, like a grassy knoll or like I was some English dude (which, yes, I know it is spelled that way, but given that my first name is clearly feminine, most people use common sense)

 

[EMom]

I find it so interesting to see all the regional differences on the name Jamie. I don't know if Jamie is a traditional male name, but it is used often as a nickname for James. As a matter of fact, when my parents thought I was going to be a boy, my name was to be James Robert, with Jamie as the nickname. When I came out a girl, they had to quickly change gears and it ended up Jamie Lynn. My grandmother wasn't happy I didn't have a "feminine" name, so for the longest time it became one name to her ; Jamie-Lynn. I have met a lot of male Jamies, so I guess that's why I always associated it with the masculine version. Many of the females I know, spell it Jaime. But again, that may just be a regional thing!

It is. I am not even going to write the name, but it is a male name with an "ee" sound one the end. I can't write it because someone here will have a kid with that name. But family friends named their kid "boy name" and slapped an "ee" on the end. Here, you can do that with Bobby, Tommy, Billy, Johnny and lots of other names. But this was a name that was old fashioned to begin with and when you slapped that "ee" sound on the end, it was just a no-go. I am certain it is fine in other parts of the country, depending on what ethnic groups are common. But here it is just not done. So when they named this kid that about 15 years ago, DH and I looked at each other and said, "They have just doomed that kid to years of butt kicking on the playground." Mainly because they insisted everyone call him "Little Boy Name-ee."

DD has two friends at school named after alcohol. I had to have a talk with her about stripper names, although I used another term, and how you have to think about the long term consequences of a baby name no matter how "cool" it seems at the time. She said their mom didn't think about consequences much since no one knows where she is and the grandma raises them. Ouch.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I, too, would pronounce OP's name "Dee-Ann."

I'm reminded of a contestant I once saw on Jeopardy...her name was spelled "Irene," but it was pronounced "Ear-AY-Nay."

I'm often told that if DH and I have a daughter and name her Gillian as we plan, people will mispronounce it. We chose the soft G pronunciation, like actress Gillian Anderson, and we're using a variation of my mother's name, Jill. We just prefer spelling it with the G instead of J. However, we're told most people will pronounce it with a hard G - Gill-ee-an.

 

[elgerber]

I, too, would pronounce OP's name "Dee-Ann."

I'm reminded of a contestant I once saw on Jeopardy...her name was spelled "Irene," but it was pronounced "Ear-AY-Nay."

I'm often told that if DH and I have a daughter and name her Gillian as we plan, people will mispronounce it. We chose the soft G pronunciation, like actress Gillian Anderson, and we're using a variation of my mother's name, Jill. We just prefer spelling it with the G instead of J. However, we're told most people will pronounce it with a hard G - Gill-ee-an.

Nope, that would be like Gillian Anderson to me.

 

[NHdisneylover]

this is so strange!! I would never think anything but DEE-ANN when I look at it.

I agree.

 

[tzolkin]

I'm often told that if DH and I have a daughter and name her Gillian as we plan, people will mispronounce it. We chose the soft G pronunciation, like actress Gillian Anderson, and we're using a variation of my mother's name, Jill. We just prefer spelling it with the G instead of J. However, we're told most people will pronounce it with a hard G - Gill-ee-an.

I think most people will pronounce it with the soft G (J) sound. I have only ever known one Gillian with a hard G pronunciation and she said she had never had anyone pronounce it correctly upon meeting her.

 

[maxaroni]

I would have had OPs name correct.

Growing up Marcia and Marsha were pronounced the same. Later I met a Marcia and it's pronounced Mar see uh.

 

[MnMomtoboys]

I would have had OPs name correct.

Growing up Marcia and Marsha were pronounced the same. Later I met a Marcia and it's pronounced Mar see uh.

We only said it that way to irritate my cousin. All the Marcia s I know say it the same as Marsha. They jus feel it's spell the right way

 

[Jaime4004]

I find it so interesting to see all the regional differences on the name Jamie. I don't know if Jamie is a traditional male name, but it is used often as a nickname for James. As a matter of fact, when my parents thought I was going to be a boy, my name was to be James Robert, with Jamie as the nickname. When I came out a girl, they had to quickly change gears and it ended up Jamie Lynn. My grandmother wasn't happy I didn't have a "feminine" name, so for the longest time it became one name to her ; Jamie-Lynn. I have met a lot of male Jamies, so I guess that's why I always associated it with the masculine version. Many of the females I know, spell it Jaime. But again, that may just be a regional thing!

Must be your half of the state... I only ever knew one other Jaime, and she was also female. Lots of Jamie's, male and female. Apparently, my mother got it from Jaime Sommers, the bionic woman.

 

[Casemily]

I work with a woman whose name is Diana. She pronounces it Dee-Ah-Nah. After we were told once, we pronounce her name right. It took her 6 months to say another co-workers name correctly however.