To not use proper spellings when naming your child

Tadhg has a few variations.. my poor child has a wall of hurt coming down the tracks 😆

Made me think of Romelu Lukaku (plays for Napoli)

His first name is a portmanteau of his dad (also a footballer)'s three names - Roger Menama Lukaku.

Wondered if there will be a load of Belgian/ Scouse/Neapolitan kids running around now called Romelu! I think it's a cool name actually it sounds a bit like Romulus the Rome wolf boy.

Also Caron Keating - the late DD of Gloria Hunniford who was once a Blue Peter presenter.

Slightly off-topic but related: I have a Muslim friend who, because of the way that "surnames" were assigned to his parents when they arrived in the UK from a place that didn't really have them, has the same first and last name. Like "Abdullah Abdullah" (although not that). You would not believe the number of computer systems that have been "cleverly" programmed to detect that he has entered the same name in both boxes and so must be making a mistake. He's considered dropping one of the "h"s legally.

Likewise there was a bit of a kerfuffle in Ireland a while back when it turned out that one of the biggest banks wouldn't accept a fada (Ó) in someone's name, like Dara Ó Briain.

So all the people putting punctuation and whatnot in their kids' names are probably storing up a lifetime of not just ridicule, but also of "Computer says no"...

Had a client with a normal name but she had to give me her legal name. It was properly mad think 80s singer with a prefix. She explained her mum was 16 when she had her. Made me feel sad hearing that.

That brings to mind the thread about OP's friend/family member who called their DD Navy Lee (Lee has a middle name, not a surname).

Before being probed to give the actual name, she began by saying that "it's an adjective followed by a boy's name" and it was pretty quickly unanimously decided by all on the thread that it must be 'Fierce Barry'

The mother of a friend of mine told her when she was expecting her first child that it should be a name you could put a title in front of such as Lord, Lady, King, Queen etc. That pretty much ties in with your views.

It's probably the Polish spelling

Coeurtis! 😂😂😂

My DH taught a student who was called Thankgod. It was a direct translation of a west African name. I have Greek heritage and we have names like Theodore which means God's gift in Greek and is very normal in Greece but I wouldn't name my DS God's gift in English, I'd go with Theodore. I bet the original west African name would have sounded much better too. Anyway, I prefer that kind of name quirk than misspellings and 'unique-but-not-unique' names but I thought I'd mention it as I chuckled every time my DH told me how he'd have to call out 'Thankgod' in class!

Ironically, I've never met a Karen who was a "K@ren" in that sense of the word. They've all been really nice.

Isn't Freyhah the old Norse spelling though? And therefore not incorrect? Just unusual.

I would probably pronounce that Care-on if I just saw it written down, not Karen.
You'd have spent your life correcting the spelling. Thank that registrar!

Ignore this silly misogynistic trend for insulting middle-aged women. I think Karen is a lovely name.

It definitely has a very strong vibe of the old joke that starts 'Why did the Mexican push his wife off a cliff?'

I went to a professional event where a young man spoke about social mobility having attained a professional position despite a deprived background including a time in care and dealing with homelessness. Truly inspirational guy, but he opened with an explanation of how to pronounce his utterly bizarre name, which was a "unique" spelling of a normal name and he explained what an additional disadvantage this was. It marked him instantly as not being "establishment" and likely of a lower socio-economic background.

It is cruel to give your child a misspelled or made up name.

Tyller. Steeve. Fashionably American names that French people can't spell. The best one is Coeurtis - like Curtis, but with the word "coeur" ("heart") shoehorned in.

You do family history? Give us some of the best names you've seen!

Whe I was born my parents wanted to call me Caron after my mum’s favourite actress and dancer Leslie Caron. Apparently the registrar flatly refused saying it wasn’t a proper name which is why I ended up with the traditional spelling of my name beloved of misogynists everywhere.

Have an american family on youtube not been mentioned yet with all their UNIque names?

LilEE
NayvEE
JournEE
etc
not enough nelsons
16 of them

I taught a lot of "Jack Daniels" over the years. At least they were spelt/ pronounced intuitively. Silver linings and all that.

You can't go wrong with a biblical name like Jeezarse or Knower.

So many horrendous name spellings on here - just shocking examples of Llayceigh parenting.

My cousin did that. Condemned her daughter to an entire lifetime of telling people "It's ie, not y." Whyyyyyyyyy??

I know of a little Myeleigh, a Marleigh, a Jaxxon and Domynick!

Showing my age here, but that just makes me think of Bejam!

Apparently, even Bejam was a yoo-neek name - an acronym made from the names of the family who began it. Their names were Brian, Eric, John, Milly and Marion - so even 'Bejam' was a yoo-neek version of the 'correct' 'Bejmm' (or 'Bejmam', if you include the 'and'), following their own eccentric rules.