To dislike trendy spellings of names?

[Liketochat1]

Continuing with the names theme, do you like or understand it when parents change the spelling of their child's name? Why do they do this? For example Mc Kayla, Shevonne or Izak. AIBU?

I don't care how other people spell their childrens names.

I imagine that most people on MN will agree with you but...
Meh who cares really? You can't see the spelling of the name when you're screaming calling it in Tesco.

Yeah it looks crap.

never seen any of these spellings

don't really care what others call their children

It makes me giggle when adults come into my work and spell their name in a silly trendy way. A woman recently told me her name was Khloey. After a lot of searching I found her record and apologised because someone had spelled it 'Chloe' instead.

Cue her going red and admitting that yes, it's actually Chloe.

It annoys me even if that makes me unreasonable. I saw a Cait announced in the paper today at first I thought it must be a boy's name like Tait, but the surround was pink and I realised it was Cait like Kate. Now This was completely reasonable as a shortened version of Caitlin. I get that, but It's just so much easier for ol' cronies if we can read a name and say it without puzzling for a few mins. If you want to call your son please spell it Jack, not Jak, Jac etc. My boring old mind can't cope!

I'm not keen but it doesn't bother me

I wouldn't do it and I judge a little bit, but each to their own I guess

OP what don't you understand about all language, except the most ancient one's (Sanskit etc), are made up (and they once were more than likely) and at one time someone was saying the same as you about ALL English words and names.

Language is made up, the majority of names are made up, they have just been around long enough to be considered 'traditional', as the 'new' spellings will eventually be.

Spellings are adapted to reflect culture etc, that is why there are so many different spellings of the same name.

Now This was completely reasonable as a shortened version of Caitlin

See, now a lot of people would argue that the true spelling of Caitlin, is Caitlyn, which is taken from Katheryn, which Karen came from, all meaning pure.

Others from former times would laugh at your spelling as it is said to have come from Caiteline (French).

Point is that someone somewhere made it up and changed the spelling to suit.

I think it's been overused, I have been asked quite a few times how to spell my dd's name - Eva.

Imo changing 'y' for 'ie' or adding a double letter is ok but throwing random y and k's into normal names just leads to the child endlessly having to spell out their names later in life.

"I saw a Cait announced in the paper today at first I thought it must be a boy's name like Tait, but the surround was pink and I realised it was Cait like Kate."

Cait is a name - it's the irish for kate. Cait is the corrrect spelling (although not sure if there should be a fada over the a)

imagen

i kid you not

I am not a fan of it and some of them are just daft but then at the same time names with a couple of spellings is hardly a new thing

Theres a weekly thread on this subject.

Random apostrophes annoy me more tbh. There is no need for punctuation in a name. Especially totally incorrect punctuation!

Recent examples: T'shawn, Ha'rey, Ja'Von Lu'kas.

Grrr

No problem with genuine alternative spellings for names - Isabel, Isobel, Isabelle etc are lovely, and cait is pretty imo, but I do admit that I often wonder if people just can't spell when it comes to emmilee and the like.

I saw a boy in the Times magazine today and his name was "Mawgan." It's the Cornish spelling. I presume it's pronounced "Morgan" - maybe it isn't though - but I'd have thought outside Cornwall 99% of people would just think his parents' spelling was shocking.

Mil is a registrar and sees some shockers. Occasionally she does gently query if spellings are intentionally alternative. Usually they aren't.

I recently found out that the current miss-spelling (as I had thought) of 'Mae' is in fact the original.

Learn somefink new every day.

I can never quite decide whether these parents choose unusual spellings of accepted usual spellings of names because they want to be 'different' and individual and see these changes as fun/cute/whatever, or they simply cant spell and its their best shot!

Whichever - they are consigning their child to a lifetime of patiently spelling out their name to other people, and in the future, certain currently 'fashionable' names are going to firmly put that child as a child of the noughties, or nineties or whatever.

What may seem cute on an adorable chubby cheeked cherub may not sit quite as well with a 30 or 40something. Just my take on it............

Doesn't bother me at all, in fact was considering a different spelling of my daughter's second name but decided against it because I don't want to have her correcting people when she uses it.

It used to irritate me, and it's not something I'd choose to do, but I'm quite indifferent nowadays.

I sometimes call them 'medieval' spellings, as some have inadvertently (though not all) used name spellings not uncommon in the period.

It only bothers me in that I have to get to grips with the many and varied new spellings of ordinary names on my class registers: e.g Linzee/Linzi as opposed to Lindsey.

Pupils get vair upset if you get the spelling wrong because there are now twent million variations thereof ...

Back in the day there were enough:

Lindsay
Lindsey
Lynsey
Lyndsay

But now we have to contend with more!!!??

Linzee
Linzi

Macksymillion was an interesting one and N'deeya. (India) sorry pffft.

But then people will always think (and tell me) my kids have twatty names so each to their own eh?