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?

*tell not two

Dd went to school with a million Amys soo many spellings meh it doesn't bother me it is just a name and if people put the wrong spelling then it is something the parents and child need to accept.

Aimee is Irish.

FFS rtft but didn't look at dates. It's years old. Why did I bother...

I never understand why people go back years looking for threads- why not start a new one?

They aren't bizarre, they are names from a culture different to your own.

I know an Emele (Emily) and an Aimee

Stupid, but not as stupid as the American tradition of giving people surnames as first names, which is just fucking ridiculous.

'They aren't bizarre, they are names from a culture different to your own. '

There was a poster on a similar thread last week complaining about made-up names. Like Chiam.
All it does is highlight the insular ignorance of the poster.

Nice bit of culture bashing there.

That's not ridiculous, perpetua, it's a different cultural tradition.
Like the Chinese putting the family name first.

No more ridiculous than calling your child Percy really.

I used to work with a guy who called his little boy Percy which was shortened from Perceval. Everytime he mentioned the child's name it reminded me of Percy penguin for some weird reason.

I used to work with a Kayzee an Izibella and a Keyran.

perpetua I don't see how it's ridiculous. Eg Campbell can be a forename or a surname.

It's each to their own like everything regarding parenting.

However parents need to understand they aren't really entitled to get their knickers in a twist if someone spells their child's name wrong if they have added 50 extra letters to a completely standard name or something. I don't know why they don't just call their child lily rather than Lilleihhh or something, the child is going to look different, have a different personality and character etc from all her classmates. A name that no one can spell or pronounce won't make a child any more original.

The world has gone a little bit mad trying to make their children's names individual. My own name is forrin but entirely phonetic- a reception child could sound it out. But adults can't so I shorten it.

My middle name is Jayne ... Although I didn't know this until I got a copy of my birth certificate ... I'd been a plain jane for 17 years up until then !!

DM had never noticed and DF forgot he did it !!

Demi is short for the greek name Demetria. I do wonder all the little demis parents realise that. Demrtria is demi moores and demi levatos real name

Ample I always understood that Lindsey was the boys' name and Lindsay was for girls - like Francis and Frances.

My Dd is called Taylor .... I still love it 17 yrs later .. So what it's a surname , it wasn't mine so it didn't matter ! .... Mae/mai winds me up though ... It's MAY !

I know ppl named Luna but never La Luna.

For me it sounds like naming someone The Rose instead of old plain Rose.

My son has a name that has a typical way of being spelt but it can be pronounced in two different ways,one if which I hate.

As a result I changed the spelling of it to ensure it's pronounced the way I want it, which it always is.

The problem is that although people pronounce it correctly some of them still spell it the typical way.

Sometimes I worry that I've set DS up for a lifetime of him having to correct people about how they spell his name.

However, if I had spelt his name the typical way he then would have spent his life correcting people when they pronounced his name wrong

One if dds friends is called Ciara but she gets called See-air-a a lot. Even when she corrects them she is told she is pronouncing her own name wrong . Theres this slightly weird thing that any forrin names like Ciara,Tomasz,Jorja are automatically assumed to be wrong and sneered at.

I knew an Isla.

Lovely name, which I believe is pronounced "Eye-la."

"This is Izzla" said her mum.

fgs

That poor wee soul, Thingummy, she'll be Rizla as soon as she gets to secondary school!

I was baffled the first time I saw Rachael written down as I had only ever seen Rachel but now I know a few of both. I find Michele weird for girls as it's a male name in Italy (their version of Michael). But then Nicola is also a male name in Italy, so there's room for confusion everywhere!

My sister is Catriona (Catreena) and I used to think Katrina was just a hideous misspelling, but then it's a legit variant on Catherine in some countries.