I gave my daughter a unique name so she wouldnt be boring now nobody can pronounce it

A mom has gone viral after revealing no one can pronounce her daughter’s unusual name – stating even her doctor gets it wrong.Emma Hutton, 35, says “nobody can understand” the name she’s given to her youngest child, declaring that the unusual moniker “is not that hard” to get right.The British mom-of-two named her one-year-old daughter Elae – pronounced LA – because she didn’t want her bub to be “boring.”But she’s become increasingly frustrated that people, even intelligent adults like doctors, can’t get their heads around how to say it.“People still don’t know how to read my daughter’s name,” she vented in a recent TikTok video captioned: “It’s really not that hard.”“It’s 2025, I didn’t know that people wouldn’t be able to understand basic English.”The furious mother, who lives in Sheffield, England went on to explain she had just been to see her general practitioner who had incorrectly pronounced Elae’s name, before realizing their mistake.“He pronounced it wrong, again, he called her Ellie,” she explained.“Then he just looked at me and went, ‘I’ve pronounced it wrong haven’t I?’“Yeah, it’s pronounced like the city, but he gave me a blank look.”She then went on to explain how to say Elae’s name correctly, stating it is said in the same way as “the city of Los Angeles.”But social media weren’t very understanding, instead arguing that Hutton should have chosen a more conventional spelling if she wanted to avoid confusion.“If people decide to spell names a little ‘different,’ don’t get mad at those trying to pronounce it.We try,” one responded to the viral clip.“It’s not their fault, it’s yours.

Why don’t people get it?” another agreed.As someone else mused: “I would pronounce it ‘ee – lay.’”“If it was pronounced ELL-AY that’s how it would be spelt, it’s phonetically incorrect sorry,” said someone else.“Sorry I mispronounced the weird name you ...