Names with strange spellings

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I sent a birthday card to the friend of a daughter today then felt bad because I realised that I had addressed her as Sarah Jane instead of Sarah Jayne. I also know of an Allison and a Michele etc.

AIBU to wonder if you think this is an attempt at individuality or just a bit weird?

To me, Robyn is the feminine spelling. I have a male cousin called Robin.

My DD's name is La Luna (2 words) because it means The Sun in Italian. some people writes it Laluna. I don't have a problem with it. I do however have a problem with MIL who knows how to write her name but writes it
La-luna. It was just different for me and I love it. Nobody has the same name as DD as far as I know.

Two of my dc have unusual spellings. I love pointing out to ignorant people that both are perfectly legitimate welsh and Irish versions of two popular anglicised names when they ask me why I chose those spellings.

@tasja. Isn't La Luna "the moon" in Italian ? And "Il Sole" the sun ?

Yeah. That would mean the moon...

Yeah, I've just checked that too. The sun is Il Sole...

MargeryKemp - we may have moved on a bit, and it's been pointed out already, but please do a little research before you accuse the name Conor of being butchered. It is a Gaelic name and is spelled correctly, and although I doubt my son will be a high court judge I resent you assuming it is less unlikely because I didn't call him Charles or bloody George....

I love the name Niamh but I've seen it as Neeve which annoys me.

Naoimh isn't it?!

I know Sindorella.

I'm not sure which is worse, calling your child Cinderella, or then spelling it wrong. I don't if anyone knows that's her name though as she gets called Sindy.

I think ridiculous spellings are unfair on the child but some people on this thread have a pretty low threshold!

Katrina, Jayne, Conor, Jaime, Marc etc are all entirely normal and accepted spellings. I have come across people of my age (mid 30s) with all those names, so they are not exactly new fads!

And I'm pretty sure Ysabel is an accepted spelling, so Ysabella isn't that out there.

And I don't think there is anything particularly weird about "Happiness" etc. We have Prudence, Joy, charity, Faith, Hope etc.

I knew a Ghanian lady called Gladness. She was lovely. It suited her.

I was going to say exactly what kungfu did.

My Nigerian friend is called Bright. She is too. Very. I pity the person who sneers at her name.

A few of the Marcs I've known were Jewish. AFAIK Jewish people avoid saints' names and always have done. How very unreasonable of them.

btw OP, YABU and quite ignorant. Those are completely normal spellings.

We don't so much avoid saint names as just not realize that's what they are.

I've known Jewish Marks. And Marcs.

La Luna is definately the moon. It comes from Latin and we use it in English... Lunar eclipse meaning eclipse of the moon, lunar cycle etc...

Agree that some people's threhsolds of acceptability are far too low. I would consider all of the following as widely accepted:

Ana/Anna
Anabell/Anabelle/Annabel/Annabell/Annabelle
Abbie/Abby/Abbey/Abi
Alison/Allison/Allyson/Alyson
Alice/Alys
Alicia/Alisha/Alesha/Alicja/Aleisha
Aisha/Ayesha
Aiden/Aidan/Ayden
Alex/Alix
Alexandra/Alejandra/Alessandra/Aleksandra
Alexander/Alessander
Austin/Austen
Ashley, Ashly, Ashlie, Ashleigh/Ashlee
Ashlynn/Ashlynn
Arianna/Ariana
Adrianna/Adriana
Aliya/Aliyah/Aaliyah
Amina/Aminah
Amira/Amirah/Ameerah
Addison/Addyson
Adalyn/Adelyn/Addalyn/Addelyn
Allen/Allan
Antony/Anthony

And those are just A names!!

SO what's the cutoff?

50 years?

100 years?

How long before a misspelling or a made-up name becomes a "real name"?

(Wendy in Peter Pan springs to mind)

You should make sure you know what you're talking about before you judge. I've got an Alizon in my family - not to be different or just to use a chav-trendy 'z' but because this is the traditional Lancashire spelling of the name and has been used in our family for hundreds of years. Another very old Lancashire name is Lois, which people always assume is a modern US name.

Most names are 'made up' if you go back far enough. Go back further and the English langauge, as we recognise it, didn't exist.

These threads always show up how little people know as there are always forms of names, that are perfectly valid, listed.

I think we can accept that all names were once "made up" and also realise that some names are considered "normal", some are considered "old-fashioned", some are thought to be "hippy", etc.

These threads always show how ignorant people are.
Frothing about 'misspelt' names that are spelt correctly.
Just not how they would spell them.
Like usual put it, 'up yourself'

If you are thinking about naming a child wand want like to be easy for them, try to imagine if there is a short way for them to explain their name.

Rachael with an A
Rachel without an A
Claire with an I
Clare with no I
Clair with no E
Kathryn with a K and a Y
Marc with a C

The thing is, a lot of the names people are criticising are either just traditional spellings which have fallen out of fashion or non-English spellings.

Tomasz is definitely Hungarian - at least, I knew a Hungarian guy called that - and possibly Polish too.

Marc is French, like Luc.

Sharlot is an old, old spelling - Norman, I think - of the Frenchified Charlotte. Harriot is a v common C17th variant of Harriet.

It always makes me when people think they are so 'classy' banging on about 'new, trendy ' names like Sharlot - when actually - they are the best part of a thousand years old!

This whole thread is desperately aspirational............