Tbh I don't care If I am, some parents need to get a grip

[WildThongIWannaKnowForSure]

I give you A-Jay, Charlidh, Ameiliah, Blaiyre, Boudicca, Blu-rayne, Foozy, Deztany-Rose, Madison-Bluebell

My favourite is Wyntrr. They could at least have added an h to the end though.

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"Not a strange name just an odd spelling, Leighann - Leanne surely?"

well, no, I would have said Leanne was the made-up (later) version - because the female form of Lee is spelt Leigh.

aloysius
a made up name!

Salome was a dancing girl
She danced the hitchy-kitch
She danced before king Herod
And she didn't wear a stitch.

Said Herod ,'Salome dear,we do not do that here.'
Said Salome 'oh go to Hell',and kicked the chandelier!

Maybe the first suffragette? Pretty name nowadays,though....

sorry Laly of course I meant Aloysius, not Aloytius, with a T. But I think the feminine form could be with a T or an S, and if you google it with a T there are women called Aloytia out there, and I am sure there are women called Aloysia too. But Alyiousa is not, can never be, and will never be the same name. Just, no. sorry.

it doesn't matter how many times you look at it, turn it inside out, back to front and upside down, your name phonetically says Al-ee-oo-sa

NOT A-la-wish-a, or A-lo-wish-a. I think they just didn't know how to spell it so they guessed and got it wrong. In which case it's better to just admit that instead of trying to convince the world that they are looking at an orange, when they are actually looking at an apple.

Unique I think the issue with Laly's name being apparently 'made up' is that it bears little phonetic relation to the name it's actually supposed to be. So an easy mistake to make, really.

Anway sorry Laly, none of it is your fault and I would no way judge you for it. But I am amazed you haven't altered the spelling for your own sanity.

Isn't Tea actually Téa (as in the actress Téa Leonie was married to Nic Cage?) I assume it's a variation on Thea - of course Ma and Pa may have some pronunciation issues. Anyhow I have a deep and abiding love of tea as in drink so it would be a compliment to the child.....

I have a class with a Caitlyn, a Caitlin and a Caitlynn and another class with three Olivia's.

The best was a class with 5 Thomas's a couple of years ago, worse still, two of the Thomas's were virtually identical.

Arf at 'or God forbid, punctuate it'.

sadly it is becoming a common requirement to need to know how to correctly punctuate a name.

but is it pronounced Sha-NY-a like Shania Twain, or is it pronounced Shay-nee-a?

Oh. So the Y is silent then.

I know a lovely baby girl called pandora. Lots of people have sneered, I think it's beautiful.

Well, seeing as we have Pandora now as well as Aloysious (which being a derivation apparently of Louis, rather validates Laly's parents' own adaption - not that it needed it), here is the full track listing of that album I talked about upthread.

This is what every joss stick burning girl of a certain era had as her list of baby names:

Beatrix
Persephone
Pandora
Amelia
Aloysius
Cicely
Otterly
Donimo

I think it's a rather nice selection 30-odd years later :)

There's some crazy names on there. Iv'e noticed Deanjunior... All one word. I assume goodluck is a traditional African thing like miracle etc?!

But Pandora is a very, very old and well established name, if not used much these days. The same with Hebe.

as well as Aloysious (which being a derivation apparently of Louis, rather validates Laly's parents' own adaption - not that it needed it),

NO NO NO!

Louis. Say it out loud - LOUIS.

O U I quite clearly sounds like ooooo-eeee (silent S as per the French)

Alyiousa. Say it out loud - ALYIOUSA.

I O U quite clearly sounds like eeee-oooo-sa

Not the same thing at all. There is no obvious connection as far as I can see, other than that they contain the same letters but in a different order.

(I am so sorry, Laly I am not meaning to pick on you but this is a matter of principle, and I can't stand it.)

Donimo? do you mean Domino?

My DD has an approved by mn MC name.if you saw her with her tattoos leggings,hooped earrings walking her staffy you would never guess her name

Excuse crap typing,on phone.

Nope, Donimo. No idea what it means. It's the last track on Treasure by The Cocteau Twins. It's all snowy and lovely. No idea what it means, though.

I know a female Cydne. Her parents thought that Sidney was too masculine. Now to me that just looks stupid and if I didn't know what it was supposed to be, I'd pronounce it "siddnuh".

Cydne is a French name