Choosing a name is so hard! Poor DS didn't have one until he was 4 days old and then it took me a while to get used of the one we chose. He ended up with a Scottish name (DH's side), but I was thinking I would like this one to have European name (my side). Also, just before we started ttc, we went on a holiday through Europe.

There are quite a few European names that are also popular in English, just spelt different. But do you think that's going to be really annoying for us and the child having to spell their name all the time and constantly having it misspelled? DH has his name spelled with a y instead of an I and always has to say it. Most people spell it with an I too. So confusing - but these are the names I was thinking of so far,

Girls
Viktoria
Celest/Celestyna
Izabella
Angelika
Zoe
Sofia

Boys
Aleksander
Isaak
Hugo
Oliver

Do you think it's stupid to have a name spelt differently. Sometimes I look at those type of names and think "couldn't the parents spell?". Also, the other day I met a relative that I'd been talking to via email for a while. His name is Maurice - which I've always pronounced as "mooreese" and he calls himself Morris as in Boris and I was wondering why they didn't just call him Morris, instead of trying to do fancy spelling.

Anyway, thanks in advance...