to feel right sorry for these babby's with unique names?

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They'll be respelling for there whole life.

Amieeleigh.

Maizii-Faii.

Demilea.

Reah-Neavah.

Jay-dee.

Rylee.

Maisy-Maee.

Ezmai.

Courney-Alice.

Izaeyah.

Jorgea.

Jerzey.

Daisey-Jai.

Dolci'Lou.

Sorry if these are any of normal spellings but I don't recognize them.

Per Oh I know, I think Kathryn should be the standard spelling

My bug bear is more the surname. Why do people not realise that names don't always run.

Kylie Currie being a real life example I know.

Kylie Currie can always get married and become Kylie Wylie. My poor friend Michael Hunt is stuck with his (unless he deed polls himself...).

Cave mum, that is a brilliant but scary link. I do hope there isn't a little girl out there called 'asshole'.

YANBU

I know of a daizee faie (daisy faye) and a princess pixie pearl

I knew a Crystal Waters, true!

My favourite story (and sad at the same time) from that website is of the uneducated women who, on hearing the Drs using medical terminology for the first time, thought that names like Vagina were great!

I have seen that website before cavemum and I thought it was really funny at first.

The more I read it the more I began to feel uncomfortable. It turns into a smartarse taking the piss out of people s/he thinks are stoopider than her/him.

Like that 'people of Walmart' website. Its a bit funny laughing at people wearing funny clothes then it gets nasty because it turns out that we are actually laughing at peope who are fat, poor, mentally ill etc.

There are lots of stories in USA about crap names and it becomes racially motivated with tales of dumb black people calling their kids Clamydia and - ann (pronounced dashann).

Sorry if I sound a bit holier than thou. I feel pretty strongly about this whole name prejudice thing.

I think adding extra vowels to names is a bit daft and misspelling very ordinary names seems a bit odd - why not just give them an unusual name?

But I think its another stick to beat the chavs with and it annoys me.

We laugh at silly spellings like Kamron for Cameron, and Aleesha for Alicia. But we don't laugh at Debra, Kathryn.

Why? Because we are used to them, and they are no longer new. And we grew up with them, so to us they are normal. But some of our mother's friends probably pulled some terrible cat's bum faces.

Apparently when my dad was named Stephen 60 years ago, my great grandmother was appalled and insisted on nicknaming him Sid, as she had "never heard of that funny name [Stephen] before".

Mrsd - I have read the first four pages of that website and agree that the 'funny' comments get old pretty quickly.

But I didn't see it as Chav bashing? There seemed to be a lot of really pretentious people on there. My favourite so far is 'Onika Rose'.

I was watching a programme on Butlins in the early 70s, and one of the holidaymakers was on stage with her baby girl. The redcoat was asking everyone their names, and when they asked the baby's name, they had to ask the mum to clarify it twice before proclaiming that it was a very unusual name and how on earth did they choose it?

The baby girl was called Zoe

Zoe! My sister Zoe was born in 1974, and was one of 9 Zoes in her year at school!

Well I have a confession to make then . My DS has god knows what as one of his middle names - no not literally! His dad (my ex) is part Greek and called Jeremy so he thought it was a good idea to have a middle name the same as his first name but in Greek Well... ex didnt know how to spell it! I rang up the Greek Embassy and asked, a worker there told me Eurasimos. So off we toddled and put this on the birth certificate. Only to find out that ermmm NO, Greek for Jeremy is Jerasimo, poor kid!

Oh and had a girl in my class called Shercuntala!

I think the chav bashing is more of a UK thing spero

I think that site is US but I still think it can be a very classist tool IYSWIM.

Oh again! Had a company work for us once where the Directors were called Steve Dicker and Bob Falik and the company was Little Hampton

Surely all names were 'made up' at some point in time?