Would you do it?

[Inanna]

Can't you tell us what the name is??? I don't watch much tv so I have no hope of figuring it out...

[feeb]

Can't you tell us what the name is??? I don't watch much tv so I have no hope of figuring it out...

She has said the name.

Caillou

[Fleur]

I love that name! Ds loves that show...I thought maybe it was Poko or dirtgirl

Dirtgirl!! Yeah!

So that is your girl name & boy name sorted

As for Caillou, I like it - but what matters is whether you love it. I wouldn't worry so much about other people being able to spell or pronounce it, if you guys love it, then use it.
You could always give him a simpler middle name so he has the choice to use that if it's all too much? I have a friend who did that. But it might not be an issue, besides I ahve seen some really simple names get mangled, it can be an issue no matter what, you know?

[Arimeh]

Can't you tell us what the name is??? I don't watch much tv so I have no hope of figuring it out...

What Feebs said - Caillou - pronounced Ky-you

Now all I have in my head is P P P POKO!

[Nai]

I love it! But then I love French names (obviously). Kids learn to spell their own name so I would spell it the way that you want to. FWIW Genevieve can write her own name at 4 and has no problems spelling it.

It looks French so even if people don't know how to pronounce it from seeing it they would probably ask.

[Trillian]

I coul never do it to my kids, but that is me speaking as someone who always grew up having to spell her name for other people and having it mispronounced all the time. But I think your kids names are so unique and perfect for them that if you didn't use it and went with something else, you'd probably always regret not using it.

[Beautitude]

Wow i guessed right! I never guess right lol.

[Arimeh]

Naw thanks Trill!!! Thats so lovely of you to say

Although, my sister is going to have some serious trouble with this - Eden wasn't called Airlea like she was going to be because my sister just could not get the pronounciation right.

And DH's parents will definitely have to have the spelling written on the fridge for a while - they had Aricyn and Mehkelti written on the fridge for the first 6 months of their lives so they could keep referring back to it

[Trillian]

ROFL! These days there are so many names that are beyond pronunciation that Caillou isn't really that big a deal I would think. Plus my kids names are reasonably safe I would have thought, yet I have had several welcome cards for them with incorrect spelling, so no name is safe really.

[mgm]

This may or may not matter to you, but I don't think Caillou is actually a name - it means pebble. Anyway, it's hell of a lot easier to pronounce than Pororo!! (my dd loves that show, but calls it 'la la la' because Pororo is so hard to say).

[~ Mylitta ~]

OK, now that you have told the name, the name I was talking about (a little boy from my mother's group) is Kaya (pronounced Ky-ah). Although of course I personally love Kyson the most

[meow]

Caillou - pronounced Ky-you

Oops- I always pronounce it Cal-oo! We don't watch the show much though and now you mention it I do remember the little boy being ky-you. I don't think it would be hard at all to remember if I knew a Caillou though.

[Trillian]

This may or may not matter to you, but I don't think Caillou is actually a name - it means pebble. Anyway, it's hell of a lot easier to pronounce than Pororo!! (my dd loves that show, but calls it 'la la la' because Pororo is so hard to say).

Does it matter if the name means anything or not? My kids names mean 'island of linden trees' 'Ireland", 'young servant' and 'man's defender' so they weren't chosen for their meanings LOL.

[Arimeh]

This may or may not matter to you, but I don't think Caillou is actually a name - it means pebble. Anyway, it's hell of a lot easier to pronounce than Pororo!! (my dd loves that show, but calls it 'la la la' because Pororo is so hard to say).

Nah doesn't matter to me - Mehkelti doesn't even have a meaning - at least Caillou does.. LOL

[mgm]

I didn't mean to suggest that it's a bad meaning - just thought you might like to know .

[Arimeh]

I already knew

I googled a few days ago.. LOL

[smiles4u]

my own name isn't a hard one to pronounce or spell but yet i have spent now nearly 4 decades having to correct and verbally repeat my own name on a staggering rate ... it's never driven me too crazy but i have had the odd moment where i think OMG wish my name was an easier one and yet at the same time am thankfully it's not super unusual then i think i would've have gone nuts with it !!

[Daydream Believer]

I think it doesnt matter if it's hard or easy to pronounce or spell because people will get it wrong anyway. People always add an "e" on the end of mine, they drop a "d" or add an "s" for DD or call her another namethat satrts the same & ends completely different. With the baby we have changed the spelling because I like the look of how it is spelt now & we thought some people would pronounce it wrong with the original spelling. As far as where we got the names from DD's is a bicycle race, & the baby's is partly from a kids tv show on Nick Jnr