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 knew a woman called Nicola in her thirties who shortened it and spelt it as Nicqui .

I have one of the most boring names on the planet. I have no chance of pimping my name

Nicqui - sort of looks like a nicotine replacement therapy.

usual - I bet you can. G'wan, give it a try

I remember meeting someone who said her name was Nicola with an H so from then on she was known as Hnicola.

OP you got a bee in your npbonnet about names today? And why in AIBU? There is a baby names board

How on earth would anyone think Khloey was a nicer name better than Chloe? I do think a lot of these come from people hearing the names and liking them for their DCs but not being able to spell them correctly -- like Zoey, Mikayla, Shevawn/Shevonne and all its variations.
And isn't at least one of the Lindsay/Lindsey variation the male version, like Frances/Francis?

Shes started 2 threads in AIBU about baby names, Are you bored OP?

N'deeyah sounds like an alternative spelling for Nadia, rather than India.

I feel for people having to spell their names at every opportunity for the rest of their lives. If you have an "alternative" spelling people will always just spell your name incorrectly :(

Feebee

I think it looks a bit tacky, but its not that big a deal.

I wouldn't do it though.

I just feel sorry for the child who has a lifetime of spelling their name and having to say either 'my parent's couldn't spell' or 'my parents wanted to be 'original''

I feel sorry for the children and want to thrown dictionaries at the parents.

S'awful (soreful, sawful !!) innit?

Both my cousins' names are spelt the traditional Welsh way, and they both have to explain and correct a lot for English-speakers (less now than 10 years ago, though). I think they're both quite proud because it's part of their heritage. I also know people who have 'Rory' spelt the proper Scottish way, or Mary the Irish way (no, not gonna attempt them!) ... again, it can be part of heritage.

I think it's just cruel when they parents unintentionally give their child a mis-spelling, that's when the registrar should have spoken up.

TBH I don't really care.

But I do think it can make people look stupid when they have silly spellings of their names.

I while ago I met a women (through my line of work) who had named her children Rebekkah, Klaier (pronounced claire) and Bryine (pronounced like brian).
most people that I met gave her this face (a lot)

There's always deed poll. I changed my second name by deed poll...ok it's not it made a difference cos I wasn't ever referred to by that name but I hated it enough to change it.

It always amazes me that people seem to accept their weird ass names and don't change them when they're rebellious teenagers... or even normal names. If my DC want to change their names when they're old enough, go for it.

As for the OP, no I don't care what people call their children but I'm also not arsed trying to learn whack job spellings that don't make any phonetic sense to me. I spell it as I hear it, if that's wrong, tough

Try these: Olipher, Alphi and Phinley. FFS!

Lol bloody laughable!

What is worrying is when you use the original spelling of a name for your child and people have become so used to the odd and unusual spellings they think yours is the strange one!

I'm not bothered by spellings, its the poor kids that are saddled with truly awful names, named after the alcoholic beverage the parents consumed at conception or the train station where they DTD :/

Mawgan is pronounced similar to Morgan, the end is the same but Maw is slightly different to Mor. It is the same as poor and paw being similar but slightly different.

"Rebekkah"

That is a popular spelling in the US, so i always though it was a valid spelling, as Rebekah (as well as about 20 other spellings), is.

I used to love than name, before Brooks.

Rebekah is a very old spelling, at least, and I don't see why double k shouldn't be too. It's presumably more authentic than with a c, technically.

My DD is a Caitlin - but always known as Caitie. I didn't mean for it to happen - I hate weird spelling but if we called her Katy/ Katie the initials would be wrong and we thought it would be confusing for a small person. And Caity looked ugly (IMHO)...now she's older she's Cait more often than not. It just happened guv...

"I spell it as I hear it, if that's wrong, tough"

You would be disciplined in every job that i have done, if you didn't ask for a spelling, even for 'common' names, so i don't see what difference it makes from a professional POV.

YANBU it bugs the life out of me.