Interesting spellings.

Ooooh, flowerygirl and princessdave. I've just seen a new baby Ayprill, too. I wonder if it's the same one?

Another one here who saw this thread and immediately thought of Ayprill that popped up on my FB news feed. No idea why, American tv programme?

DD at nursery with a Ripleigh which I assumed was a boy. Nope.

MrsFlint I just looked up that p[age and there are some very interesting spellings in the comments.

Alyisha instead of Alisha

Emilia, said like Emily-a

Kiera-Rae instead of Keira

Chynna instead of China

Enola, not sure if this is a unusual spelling or not. Made me think of Ebola though.

Poppy-Mae

Ayva instead of Ava

Charleigh instead of Charlie

Ayden instead of Aiden

Esmae instead of Esme

Elliazbeth instead of Elizabeth

Kaila instead of Kayla

Konnie instead of Connie

Cailie instead of Kayleigh

Symon instead of Simon

I know someone called Neesha.

Aren't a lot of the 'unusual' spellings due to the parents being illiterate and spelling names phonetically?

Would explain things like Steffanny or Shevonne?

Surely no-one deliberately condemns their offspring to a lifetime of having to spell out their name and correct misspellings and mispronouncements in the name of 'individuality'?

You'd have thought a few weeks of the parents having to do it when registering the birth, signing up at the doctors etc would quickly illustrate how misguided unconventional spellings are?

Mykayla - on some TV prog. recently.

I saw Ayprill today as well on the Facebook page of the 16 kids and counting family (name escapes me) there were LOADS of nasty comments on there.

I absolutely adore Alys and much prefer it to Alice, but probably wouldn't use it because they would be constantly having to say "no not like that"

My DCs have traditional names and yet loads of people get my DS' wrong - it's Isaac but it's always being written as Issac?!

All very tacky....

I taught a Chevaunne once. At that school there was also a Cea-enna. Makes life v complicated for the teachers!

Mai for May.
Especially seen as a middle name or second part of a hyphenated name. Reminds me of a mai-tai cocktail.

Anyone who wants to tinker with the name Molly should be aware that a mollee is a kind of curry.
As in, fish mollee.
I make it sometimes.

I know a Jorja instead of Georgia and saw an Ayprill instead of April the other day.

I think people just go for a different spelling because they think they're being 'exotic'

AWFUL

As others have said, Jorja is not a legitimate form of Georgia, it's an abomination of a spelling.

People sometimes wrongly assume it's a Spanish form, as the Spanish form of George is Jorge, but it isn't. In Spanish, the J is pronounced with a H sound, so in that case Jorja would be HOR-ha.

The Spanish feminine of George is er, Georgina. (No I'm not sure why it's Jorge for a boy, but Georgina for a girl, but there we are).

New one I've seen today is Ayprill but don't think it is as unusual as Skalett as at least Ayprill still reads like April, Skalett reads more like Skillett than Scarlet I think. (Oh and my middle name is Clare but named after St Clare I believe)

Ridiculous!

For scrabble purposes?

I know a Xzanthy which is supposed to be Xanthe. Her parents wanted to get x, y and z in one name.

Oh my god at the majority of these.
That is all!

Yes sweet. That's exactly what I thought...

Aw, that's a sweet story mcbear

DP got a tattoo of DDs name before we registered her birth and spelt it wrong. Well, how he thought it was spelt.

He is a special kind of stupid

It takes a special kind of stupid to not even be able to spell your own child's name.

Awful.

Yes in a way that's toast but I see it more as a separation from us and making their own culture...

One does annoy me. It's Amiee or amie. This is just a misspelling of Aimée and plain stoopid.

Hmm, well the parents are probably a bit old to be old punk rockers. Unless they had their DS quite late in life.

I do sympathise with people wanting to give a name or even a spelling that means something to them, but I'm also sympathetic to their DC who have to constantly spell their names out.

There are worse problems, though. I'd rather be sitting here gnashing my teeth at Adam for giving me her grandmother's bizarrely spelt name than dying of Ebola in west Africa.

Shevonne for Siobhan is the one which makes my teeth itch most,

Or Steffanny.

What thatstoast said. If it's a name from another language, or a name used across different languages so a variety of accepted spellings depending on the language (i.e. the Clare / Claire, Sophia / Sofia examples above), then fine. I've no problem with that.

But deliberately misspelling a name just for the sake of being different? I don't get that.