Rate my baby names - unusual

Yes of course it is. Wasn’t subtle enough except maybe at the very beginning.

“them names” ?

“You’re”

“To”

“Leksie-Mae, Amelyah, Jaxson, Jaydon”

Yes, illiteracy and terrible names go hand in hand. But as I say, clearly a piss take that sadly you’ve actually fallen for!

It’s quite obvious that if your father is Prince Harry your general life outcomes are really not going to be negatively impacted by you having been given a stupid name.

The same can not be guaranteed when your father is not Prince Harry.

But then on the other hand it doesn’t really matter how perfectly solid your name is if all the other cards are still stacked against you...

I like polly, mabel and posie.

Loxie is like a doll. Moxie girls that's it.

What about Lorcan? So much easier to spell and say.

Instead of Reid, what about Red (Redmond).

*Leksie-Mai

Would have the exact same opportunities as

Alexandra May

The reality is very different, however*

This. the name shouldn't make a difference, no. But it does, and people have to acknowledge that when naming their children. Most parents want to give their children the best start in life they can.

Follie, if you like 'ie' names, OP?

op, I love them names. Jaxson is 😍 😍 but my oh said no cuz he wanted Jaydon for a boy.

I like you're way of spelling them to. Maebel is so cute.

I like the Leksie-Mae idea or Amelyah.
I pmsl at the gp thing I thought it meant doctor lol. My doctor is called julie but I wouldnt call a dc that lol.

I agree that some names (many of the OPs suggestions) are suggestive of class or education in a negative way.

OP, you are deliberately misspelling existing names instead of looking for genuinely unusual names AND laugh at any suggestions that anyone would assume parents naming children these badly spelled names have poor educational standard. Yet you yourself do appear to have poor standards of literacy, so the assumption is right (through instead of threw, there instead of their and lots of grammatical mistakes). It’s the total disregard for the child (who hasn’t been conceived yet) and determination to give them a spelling mistake as a name and the sheer defensiveness and determination to do what YOU want at the expense of the child which is the most disturbing. You even go so far as to completely invent backstories into the lives of people you’ve never known - Jemma must have had a lovely life otherwise, Sullen must have had poor work experience or bad references etc. It’s quite bizarre.

Very successful “city” firms and even the civil service DO discard job applications without looking at the full form. Do you really think they read every form or CV in detail? When I was applying for jobs and went to application workshops I was told repeatedly by invited employers that cover letters or forms with spelling mistakes were a bugbear and would be thrown in the bin. A person that looks like they can’t spell their own name or who appears to have come from a background where education was never a priority will have a mighty hard time getting to the front of a pile.

Maybe in your head;

Leksie-Mai

Would have the exact same opportunities as

Alexandra May

The reality is very different, however.

I disagree; a name absolutely represents the class and intellect of the parents in my opinion.
You wouldn’t get a Jayden or Jaxon in the royal family. You would also be unlikely to get a baby William or Edward on a council estate these days. The children at the nursery I work at from the council estates are Jaxon, Lexie etc

a name does not determine class, education or attitude. That's just how me and my family/partner feel

It's nice that you're so open-minded and without prejudice but I guess a lot of people take in how society would respond to a name. I think you're also naive if you don't think people form opinions around names. Most probably don't do it intentionally. Most people have unconscious biases.

Also, I'm not sure it's factual that class and education don't have an influence on names. I grew up in a working class town and went to state school. When I went to a university with lots of richer and privately educated students I definitely noticed a difference in names.

On another naming board (on reddit) I once read a post by someone who was considering naming their child "Maleficent". To which lots of people responded that it was terrible, especially as it has such a negative definition. Their response was that they weren't aware of the meaning and that her and her partner had their own personal meaning and feeling attached to it. It reminds me of your responses on here. You can argue how you feel and interpret things but that isn't how other people will necessarily view it.

Why the emoji? It is used so much when it doesn't make sense to.

It’s you’re choice honey!

I wonder why she didn't change her name by deed poll.

The way she explained it at the time was to do with money and hassle and the potential to be cut out of a will (a threat from her parents). She did say she’d eventually change it by deed poll but all of her qualifications, passport, driving license etc were in her birth name, she struggled for money so was stuck for ten years with them and her parents had also threatened to disinherit her if she changed it.

haha I do agree that name is awful! And her parents sound like idiots - we aren't having children for experiments we will raise them to be whoever they want to be, dress how they like and have their own voice. If they absolutely detested there name, I would happily help them change it.

However, we would only call a child a name we absolutely loved for a reason and will go for a name that we feel suit our baby! Goes to show that people with 'unique' names can still go on to get jobs and not get judged, opposed to some posters on here

It was a National Minimum Wage, temp job. She was judged in the past on her CV. She felt people thought she couldn’t write her own name so just threw it in the bin. Honestly, I think any “yoonique” made up, illiterate looking spelling is as awful as “Su-L-en” and unfair to the child so I’m afraid you won’t find me agreeing with you in your choices. And I’m as far from Katie Hopkins as they come.

None of the girls’ names are unusual, except Thalia - but for heavens sake spell them normally. Miss-spelling a name doesn’t make it interesting or unusual. They are all Ok names, other than Posey is going to be pretty daft when she grows up.

The boys names are grim other than Jackson.

I bet her name was the least of her problems then and so it should have been, lots of other things to feel sorry for her really...

Oh yes, but the first time my mum met her she only knew the name, so that was the first thing she pitied her for. The rest came later.

Outing but this reminds me of an job interview I was in...

“Hi..Su...”

“Sue-Ellen”

“ahhhh Sue- Ellen! That makes sense, there’s a typo. It looks like it says..”

“Sullen? Yep. That’s not a typo. My name is spelled Su-l-en but it’s pronounced Sue Ellen. Basically my parents were dicks and thought it was “fun”. But I’ve spent all my working life going through this conversation about my name. Never mind, I’ll be choosing their nursing home one day!”.

She was a lovely, lovely person. With a terrible, terrible name. She got the job and I learned more about her childhood. Her parents really were a nightmare. Dressed them really weird as kids, gave them funny hairstyles, homeschooled them, very bizarre rules about their upbringing. They only had kids to be their little experiment rather than thinking they’d have to live in the real world and deal with their shitty names and the fact they’d basically been little dolls their whole lives. They were always having more babies as they got bored as kids got older. They really should have stuck to dolls. They could have named them all the yoonique shit names in the world and dressed them however they liked without having to harm actual children who grew up with actual feelings.

I bet Jemma loved it, I have never ever ever felt sorry for someone because of there name, that idea just seems wild to me

No idea if she did or not. She was a very shy young lady, ruthlessly bullied to the point of suicide attempts (no idea what they bullied her for though). I doubt she'd have relished being different as she didn't seem the type, but I never asked her.