The Name

Many people have asked us about our daughter's name, where we got it from, and how to pronounce it since it isn't a common one. We knew from the beginning that we didn't want to use a name that thousands of other people in the world had. We just like the names that are 'different' but obviously nothing TOO crazy like the name Axton or something :P (that's AJ's name if you didn't know!)

The name "Eslie" actually comes from my great-grandfather whose name was "Leslie". We more or less just took the "L" off the front, so it is pronounced as "Ess-Lee". We really liked the name when we came up with it, and little did we know the events that would unfold this past September, only two months before she was born, when my Great-Grandpa would pass away from his second stroke. It was then that a little more meaning was given to the name we had picked out for our little girl.

Her middle name is "Jai" and it is pronounced as exactly that. "Jay". When we were coming up with names, we were always putting middle names that started with the letter J with each name. We just really wanted that letter as the middle initial, especially since AJ's middle initial is 'J'. But being that "Jay" is a somewhat common name and not very 'girly', we simply decided to change the spelling to make it fit with "Eslie" a little better, and we came up with "Jai'.


There you have it: Eslie Jai :)