One mom on TikTok is opening up about giving her daughter a name that other people have trouble pronouncing. When she chose the name, she didn’t think it would be much of an issue, but after multiple people seemed to struggle with saying the name, she began to second-guess her choice. So she took to the social media platform to share her concerns.
Choosing a baby name is such an exhaustive process, so it’s definitely frustrating for a parent when people can’t seem to say the name correctly. There were probably a bunch of parents who could relate to her story!
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She isn't sure if she herself has been properly pronouncing the name.
TikToker Justus Stroup, a mom of two, shared a video expressing fears that she can’t pronounce her infant daughter’s name correctly, because other people can’t seem to pronounce it the way she does. She explained that she named her baby girl Sutton, but two people thought she had said a different name.
“I don’t know that I know how to pronounciate/enunciate her name correctly,” Stroup says.
The way other people have responded to the name is making her second-guess herself.
As she continued, Stroup explained that a couple of people put emphasis on the “Ts,” pronouncing it “Sut-Ton.”
“I’m not gonna enunciate the ‘T’s’ like that. It drives me absolutely nuts,” she said. “I told a friend her name one time, and she goes, ‘Oh, that’s cute.’ And then she repeated the name back to me and I was like, ‘No, that is not what I said.'”
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Surprisingly, two people made the same exact mistake with the baby's name.
Stroup explained that her 2-year-old son’s speech therapist came to their house for a session, and greeted the baby by saying “Hi, little Sun.” She shared that this was the second time someone had called the baby that.
“Both of these ladies were so sweet when they thought that’s what I said,” she shared. “My speech therapist, when I corrected her and spelled it out, she goes, ‘You know, living out in California, I have friends who named their kids River and Ocean, so I didn’t think it was that far off.'”
“Good Lord, I did not think this was gonna be my issue with this name,” she admitted at the end of the video.
People were definitely on her side.
The comments were full of people affirming the way Stroup pronounces her daughter’s name.
“My last name is Sutton and your 100% saying it right!!” someone wrote.
“I would not enunciate the Ts either, but I heard Sutton just fine when you said it,” one person assured the mom.
Another commented: “Sutton here you’re saying it correctly! Pinky promise 😁.”
Someone else wrote: “I hear it correctly! Sutton like Button. I would pronounce it like you too!”
“I say it the same way you do!” another person exclaimed. “Also, I can clearly hear that you say Sutton and Sun differently!”
Despite the confusion, Stroup has 'no regrets' on choosing Sutton's name.
“Truthfully this was never a name on my list before finding out I was pregnant with a girl, but after finding out the gender, it was a name I mentioned and my husband fell in love with,” Stroup told People. She had first heard the name when she was in high school on the TV show The Lying Game.
“I still love the name. I honestly thought I was picking a strong, yet still unique name,” she shared. “I still find it to be a pretty name, and I love that it is gender neutral as those are the type of names I love for girls.”
And with a name like Justus, she understands what her daughter may go through. “My name has always been misheard or misunderstood growing up,” she admitted. “When I noticed the same thing was happening with my daughter’s name, it was something I could relate to and wanted to share.”
