To not use proper spellings when naming your child

I work somewhere where there is a sign to contact Kacper if you need a certain thing doing. I spent months thinking that's an unusual name until I realised it was a funky spelling of Casper. Parents obviously didn't know the letter c only makes 's' when followed by i, e or y.

Bad example given Kacper is how you spell it (correctly) in Polish.

I’m calling bullshit.

Sometimes I come on here just to re-post the longest quote I can find when I could just tag the poster. I always just add the one short sentence, for maximum fucking annoyance! 🤬😂

Oooh, you've started me off with my war against the lack of hypens these days! Are you American? I read "pre-warn" as "prawn" since it didn't have a dash!

Had a friend whose mum only found out, later in life, when she got her first passport, that her name wasn't Tina, but actually Tena on her birth certificate.

Had a nurse prewarn me as the mum had just had a go at her for not knowing 'ka-ia' is kardashia as "you pronounce the dash (hyphen)"

Had a nurse prewarn me as the mum had just had a go at her for not knowing 'ka-ia' is kardashia as "you pronounce the dash (hyphen)"

Oh ffs not this again. Why do MNers care so much about other people’s names? You spell it wrong, they correct the spelling, everyone moves on. It’s not that difficult.

Oh ffs not this again. Why do MNers care so much about other people’s names? You spell it wrong, they correct the spelling, everyone moves on. It’s not that difficult.

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

Sometimes I just come onto Mumsnet to post 'Nice Beaver'.

He missed out the Italians - Arturo.

Because DH is English and we wanted his side of the family to be able to pronounce their names easily we went for Welsh names that have similar English equivalents, followed by overtly Welsh middle names for all four DCs. And, yes, they have been mistaken for you-neek, or pretentious spellings. I
One DD may have the same name with a "y" in it as your DD. I had to convince PIL that it was an actual name, not me being awkward.

I might have a look tomorrow. I've just logged off my computer for the evening and I'm on my phone now. There are so absolute crackers.

However...

If you want a childish giggle there's a great twitter account called AT actualnames1 which tweets names it's found on official documents from actual people. Many of them are toilet level (or below!) but not all. And these are a mix of quirky and traditional names.

Amongst the latest offerings I give you:

Cheese Bologna
United States, Census, 1920

Willie Butts Cargo
United States, Census, 1940

Anita Lowdick
United States, Census, 1940

Ainel Furray
Canada, Census, 1911

Feeling Priddy
United States, Census, 1910

Fatty Singers
United States, Census, 1940

Max Wackoff
Father
New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Baals
Harry William Baals was an American politician who was the Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1934 to 1947, and from 1951 until his death in 1954.

Assing Reinhold
New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1925

Fairy Bee White
United States, Census, 1940

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Monds
Wonderful Terrific Monds Jr. (born May 3, 1952) is an American former professional football defensive back who played one season with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). His unusual name was originally given to his father when, after his grandparents had several girls, a son was finally born and his father thought it was "wonderful, just terrific."

MN should not complain...

Its funny, I've looked at so many names of DNA matches now, it's not hard to guess if the person is British or American/Canadian just from their names. Sometimes from first names and sometimes from last names, but you can just tell before you click through and see their location. There's definite patterns!

Mormon names are particularly hideous if you don't like funny spellings and made up names though. It's a definite Mormon 'thing'.

Here's some more examples:
Kayzin
AnnDe
Tymberlee
Tivian
JaKoby
Rexalyn
Lenyx
Jazlin
Riglee
Roczen
Torrick
Jossilyn
Payzlei
Ashtyn
Madilynn
Kaidence
Cohyn
Dallie-Ann
Beckette
Kylar
Cayson
Kynlee
Jaelyn
Zaylee
Kaydri
Brailee

(I can feel the MN judging from here!)

I find the whole thing fascinating about how cultural this is and how it reflects your community. All those comments about how little Balonz wouldn't become a high court judge? Just go to Salt Lake City and they'd fit right in and no one would blink. They would however think Catherine was exceptionally dull.

Personally I think there's a balance - there's plenty of different and unusual names to avoid being one of thousands and having to use the initial of your surname without going crazy unusual. The happy place is something people can spell but is different. Ironically you should call your baby something really out of fashion like Ian or Terence or Simon which bucks the trend. For their generation it's a really out there name (and will probably be the type of thing they'll call their own children as there's a rough 100 year cycle in the UK for naming trends).

But the winner of Shit Names definitely goes to the English civil war era puritans (both in the UK and US) who just took it to a whole other level...
https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/09/puritan-names-lists-of-bizarre-religious-nomenclature-used-by-puritans.html

The MN baby names section has nothing to compare with Job-raked-out-of-the-ashes or Fly-fornication

Or how about Die-Well, brother of Farewell (surname was Sykes)?

I am officially a nerd.

If I were a teacher I don't think I could indulge the thick-as-pigshittery! I'd have to resolutely correct the spelling, every time, and if the 'parents' complained, point out that it rather defeats the purpose of my role if I were to backtrack on spelling correctly.

Really though, the registrar should have greater veto powers. Standard spellings in other languages, fine. Bastardisation in any language, disallow. Or, just short-circuit the future social services involvement and schooling hassles, and call adoption services right away.

Batshit names are such pointlessly shitty things to saddle a child with. Just another reason society increasingly needs oversight of parenting.

DD has a normal Welsh name but because it has a "y" in it, non Welsh people think it's a "youniiiqueh" name.

I don't get a chance to share this often, but God bless Mumsnetters.

"[Arthur] Schopenhauer’s father carefully chose his son’s first name on account of its identical spelling in German, French and English." Who knew?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/

Someone at work said the other day people at the registry office should have the right of temporary veto and tell people to come back. Can’t help but think they’re onto something 😂

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

I work somewhere where there is a sign to contact Kacper if you need a certain thing doing. I spent months thinking that's an unusual name until I realised it was a funky spelling of Casper. Parents obviously didn't know the letter c only makes 's' when followed by i, e or y.