my daughter is almost 6 years old and her name is Cessalye. it is pronounced cess-uh-lee. I love the originality and the beauty of her name. she also happens to model which she has done for four and a half years. Due to the fact that her name is public I will often do internet searches to make sure nobody has stolen or re-edited her photos. (I once came across a foreign website where the owner of a forum claimed she was their daughter!) anyway I came across another baby name forum with a thread discussing how stupid her name was. I could not believe it!! [name_m]Just[/name_m] venting about it. I mean how is there some people just start bashing my daughter’s name when they don’t even know the reasoning I chose it.
[name_f]Hope[/name_f] everyone has a safe and happy new year!!
A lot of people will react negatively towards names they are unfamiliar with. [name_f]Cecily[/name_f], pronounced the same way, is a beautiful name, but a lot of people don’t know what to make of Cessalye and thus don’t like it. People tend to prefer what’s familiar to them rather than things they’ve never heard of or been exposed to. That’s why a lot of people encourage the use of traditional spellings here on Nameberry.
That being said, whether or not they like it, no one has the right to be rude about someone’s name. I’m sorry you had to hear that.
P.S. I looked your daughter up and if it’s the Cessalye I think it is, she’s a beautiful little girl!
They don’t know you or why you chose the name, and you didn’t ask for their opinions on the name, so why should you care what they say? Let it roll off your back, dear.
I think that that is so rude! I’ve been browsing baby name forums since I got pregnant back in [name_f]July[/name_f], and I see people doing stuff like that all the time. It’s ridiculous! I just roll my eyes and push the back button. I mean, what do you accomplish by doing that? [name_m]How[/name_m] would you feel if someone did that to your child’s name? Or your own name? Everyone has different tastes. I don’t know what makes people think that it’s okay to be so mean! And some of them call it “being honest”. You can be honest and get your point across perfectly without being rude. I think that some people forget that their opinions are not facts.
is not rude. It is just having an opinion. Particularly on a public website. It would be quite different if someone said that to your face, but I am assuming the people don’t know you, have never heard of you.
And even so… I have read on nameberry how my name and other loved ones names are ugly, but again, it is not personal.
Once I wrote about how boring are the names of my youth: [name_f]Debbie[/name_f] and [name_f]Karen[/name_f] etc. A woman wrote in and said, “Those are the names of my mother and aunt!”
But of course I don’t know her mother and aunt; I just don’t like the names.
I also think one has to develop something of a thick skin when changing the spelling of names. For many, cess is not a spelling of a syllable that is attractive.
I think her point was that someone made a thread for the sole purpose of attacking her daughter’s name, and THAT was rude, not that they have an opinion. I’d be pretty annoyed too if I saw that someone had made a thread just to attack my name/a name I chose, because, it’s cyberbullying, which is completely different from having an opinion.
Someone made a thread for the sole purpose of bashing her name? That is rude.
I think I found your YouTube channel. Your daughter is absolutely adorable. 
[name_m]Ty[/name_m]"! Yes fans make tons of videos of her so you probably did see her on YouTube. [name_m]How[/name_m] do I add a signature to my posts?
Exactly!!
That’s what I thought too
Agreed completely with lawsonhaley.
If you came on here and asked, “What do you think of my daughter’s name?” then people have the right to state their opinions. Otherwise it’s just rude and kind of pathetic that this person has nothing better to talk about.
Having said that, I see posts on here like that from time to time, where the basic theme is “LOL can you believe my cousin’s friend’s neighbor named her kid Jaxsyn??”
You’re aloud to be rude on the Internet. Sorry, such is life.
Honestly I think that since you’re so willing to put your child in the public eye, especially with a name that stands out, I think you should learn to deal with criticism of all kinds.
I understand it must be awful to hear your daughter’s name slated, but I don’t think it’s as malicious as you’re making out. They heard a name they didn’t like, and expressed that opinion - there must be thousands of cases like that on Nameberry. There are even threads like ‘‘You’ll never guess what my neighbour named their baby! [name_m]How[/name_m] awful!’’. It’s easy to assume that the discussed people won’t ever find out, and usually they won’t.
Pretending that your child was their own is a much more serious problem to be honest, and one that I’d be more worried about that people saying they didn’t like her name.
[name_f]EDIT[/name_f]: oh and I did a google search, hardly anything came up with Cessalye… some fan videos which I find a bit creepy to make of somebody else’s child, but hey ho.
While it was undoubtedly in bad taste for people to start a thread bashing a specific individual’s (here, a child!) name, that is a predictable consequence of making your daughter a public figure. I don’t mean to say you could have known about this specific act of unkindness, of course. But you have to know that when any person surrenders his/her privacy to be in the public eye, not all opinions/responses will be kind/approving/etc.
Was it ruder than the Mickhaeyla thread that’s floating around here?
I think you need to get some tougher skin. Nameberry is a place where we talk about names. People are allowed to express their opinion on all the names. When you pick such a unique name with a different spelling than the normal one, people are going to talk about it. They aren’t saying anything about your daughter, they are just talking about a name they saw. When you put something on the internet, it’s there. You can’t expect everyone to say Oh what a lovely name! I think what I would be more concerned about it people making videos of my kid and someone saying she was their daughter.
On a side note, why did you chose the name Cessaley?
Also, I think this thread belongs in Talk about baby names - not girls names.
This.
I know what thread you are referring to and the thread wasn’t specifically about her name. The thread is also three years old. No one called the name stupid nor did they insult it. I’m a little suprised that as a mother who admitted to frequently searching her daughters name online that you just now found this thread.
I am closing this thread before it’s potential to cause drama between two naming communities. I don’t think it is trolling, but I do think it’d morph into it if this thread continues.