To not use proper spellings when naming your child

Was a white family

I blame the ‘Amy’s’ for starting this 🤣 I’m a millennial and we had so many in school that they all had different ways of spelling it. I have an Aimee, Amie, Aimie and Ami all on my Facebook and they definitely all began primary school with it spelt the ‘normal’ way 🤣

Yes I have already been corrected by multiple people. Thank you. I learnt something new yesterday. 🙂

I made the mistake of calling Iris in the standard way, she pronounced it as Eeeris eventhough it was spelt the usual way.

I know of a Jayson and a Summah-Belle. Both have otherwise normal parents but I cringe every time I write their names.

My name has an extra letter in it, which causes all manner of confusion, although I was told by a historian that it is the traditional spelling of my name. I just wish my parents had kept it simple.

Not on the poster I saw in the office, no. I did consider that in an earlier post in the thread. 🙂

In a previous job I learned quickly to check the spelling of all names before looking them up, even the most apparently straightforward. One day, checking whether 'Casey' (my assumed spelling!) started with a C or a K, I was shouted at, for being stupid I guess, that it was obviously KC - yes just the 2 initials were the full name - which I could only relate to KC and the Sunshine Band! Most folk I know using initials as their everyday name do seem to have a full name of some sort eg Alan Junior being AJ.
Years back though I met someone having twin girls who said both would seem to have the same name - spelled the same - but one pronounced Michaela and one Mik - eye - la- I don't know if such gets passed a registrar.

That's how Isa and Ava are pronounced in German. Possibly in other languages too. Dutch maybe?

My dad calls Dolgellau Dogglydoo 😂 I have no idea how he came up with that one!

He doesn't even try to pronounce where I live, it has fourteen letters and a distinct lack of English vowels. He just waves his hand airily and says "Calibrate lives near (much easier to pronounce and spell for non Welsh speakers place)".

Agree! My three year old has known her full name for about a year - although she sometimes gets mixed up and says first name, last name, middle name.

RedToothBrush · Today 01:10

I think people would consider Wendy a normal girls name. Not common, but normal.
Except it's essentially a made up name dating from 1904 when it was used in Peter Pan. Prior to that it has usage as a surname and occasional male name.

I had a junior school classmate called Wendy in the 70s, her given name was Gwendoline, I always assumed it was a normal contraction of that.

There was a couple in the media a few weeks ago. Registra was refusing to let them name their baby boy Lucifer. They got their way in the end but the poor kid.

There was one a few years ago parents were stopped from naming baby Tallulah does the hula in Hawaii.

I know an Alivia they liked Olivia but thought it was too common so changed the first letter.

I covered a class the other day and there was a Iyla and I didn't clock it was a capital so I called out Iyla for the register. She sort of sighed and said "it's Iyla" like she had to do that every register. I've never seen Isla written as Iyla before, but maybe it's not that unusual.

Those poor kids, having to grow up always spelling out their names and correcting people. I do think registrars should be allowed to step in. It would make their job much more awkward though!

Zenobia is a very old name, she was a 3rd century Empress of Palmyra. I don't know much about her but can remember a heading in a book, something about "She defied the might of Rome". So quite a woman, I guess.

I wonder if she was aiming for the Welsh name Lleucu (Lucy)!

I've taught an Aaliviyarh. Pronounced Olivia.

See, Harper’s got a totally different image in the US - before it got mega-popular, it was used by sort of pseudo-intellectual types who wanted to tell you how much they loooooooved To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I say “pseudo-intellectual” because it was like they were trying to show off how well-read they were, but TKAM is probably one of the most frequently assigned books in American high schools. So, yay, good for you, you remembered sophomore English class!
I like the name Araminta, actually. It was Harriet Tubman’s birth name.

This is like "I liked the band before they were popular"

naa-a is actually natasha!! abcde is pronounced absidee!

Hmm Lesley, Leigh, Kerry, or Quin. Can't think of anymore.

@Catterpillarsflipflops I have just checked the baby names section and you have not added this there. Therefore, you have been very U not addressing this directly to all those hormonal women who need a reality check.

Otherwise, I am with you all the way.

Yes agree with this completely. My name is spelt the original way. It has got more popular the last 20 or so years. But I always get asked how it's spelt. There's some spellings with a hythen between the first and second half. Just to be unique or because they don't like how it looks written down. The poor child has to live with that name.

Give the man a break! Although can the hive mind find a name that works in four or more European languages

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Max

My name is unisex and can be spelt in 3 different ways that I know of, potentially 4 if you wanted to be jazzy. It's also a name that when you introduce yourself to others, they mishear and call you something else 🤣. What is my name?

Yes, that was the only time I'd heard it prior to the Beckhams using it - the author of TKAM.

The trouble with Araminta is that the person ends up being called Minty. I always remember there was a travel journalist called Minty Clinch! 😂 Don't know if she's still around.