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

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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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I have encountered a baby kohlin. Yes that's Colin but spelled like the eyeliner.
I have also encountered a princess blue, winter, storm, Memphis and nemo

4 stars

I was a little taken aback to see the name Latrina on an American tv show recently. Maybe the word latrine isn't generally known in the USA.

There is a crighton!
Red dwarf is still popular then

I thought this thread was mainly about the spelling, not the actual names, so I can't see why some people are getting so arsey. I mean, "Deztany-Rose" ~ there's just no excuse. And Blu-Rayne? What??

Dezstany-Rose! She is going to spend her whole life spelling her name for people!

Right, beat this.

L - a.

Pronounced Ledasha.

I had Hebe circled in a baby names book and had given it to DH to look through. "HEEB?" he snorted in horror.

URBAN MYTH eastegg, as covered upthread.

Op here, it was my intention to have a lighthearted josh about the creative spelling. No offence intended professional or otherwise

Doubtful, Crighton/Creighton is a surname, Kryten is the android :)

do you think brooke-love or destziny are destzined to be lawyers or doctors?:-)

That's an urban myth eastegg, and a nasty racist one at that.

Ashoe there was some panda-love going on in Edinburgh this week too!

I think the sneering goes both ways or even multiple ways though. You get it on MN all the the time- an anecdote about a parent who is deemed to be precious over something they are told they must have been in Waitrose and their child is called, 'Tarquin' or some such cliched bollocks. My DS has a name that people assume is aspirational, green wellie brigade when in fact it was chosen because it wasn't quintessentially 'English'. DP is Jewish and his grandparents were originally from Germany, DS's name is his great grandfather's second name. My DD similarly has what is deemed a MC name but again it was chosen to avoid being too 'English'. Her middle name is Esther, after her Jewish great grandmother.

Le-a isn't real eastegg, it's from snopes

usual - I'm curious, do you draw a line anywhere or do you generally like/think are fine all names. I'd love to be as indiscriminating as that and I do like the majority of names but I can't quite get past odd spellings as acceptable (not culturally different ones but ones like Benjiman/Joesph and Lexxxi/Miikaylah). My problem I guess but I can't help feeling a bit sorry for the children.

I seem to recall the last 'point and laugh at the silly names' thread was deleted.

do you think brooke-love or destziny are destzined to be lawyers or doctors?:-)

This illustrates exactly what I said above - it's just an excuse to laugh at people's choices. Snobbery and (in some cases) racism.

My parents made up my name. I like it!

I have a question, with certain names, how do you know what the 'right' spelling is? My DD is called Caitlin, pronounced 'Kate-Lin' (apparently this is chavvy, but i defy anyone to see my gorgeous daughter and call her a chav). Is that more or less acceptable than Katelin, or Katelyn, or many of the other variations?

Oh I think I also get extra MN judgey points for having a 'boys' name as her middle name.

Don't agree with you re racism and snobbery sunny, but that's what chat forums are all about I suppose?
I'll repeat, no offence intended from original op.

it was a joke as indicated by the :-) and as for all the oh i dont judge bollocks-you judge and are judged every minute of the day.my dn is called kaiden.i dont like the name and think he will be judged on it but doesnt mean i dont love my dn.

I know many children with names sneered at on MN,I couldn't give a stuff how their names are spelt.They are just names to me.

It is snobbery and the sneering at a perfectly normal Hindu name on this thread is bordering on racist.

nothing wrong with Hebe.
its other name is Veronica

plant names see.
likeErica and Heather are interchangeable.

yy laly caitlin/kaitlyn/catelyn/cate-lynn (I've seen other spellings) is another example of acceptable alternatives to the same name.

like kayleigh/ceilidh/kayley etc.

jon/john
ian/iain
bert/burt
carl/karl
carol/carole
karen/karon/caron/karin

and a lot of spelling variations are because of coming from different languages (eleanor and katherine being good examples of that)

what about kerry/kerri/keri/ceri? all legitimate and all except Kerri are boy's names too.

I think the fact that I definitely know of someone with the name kind of disproves that it's an urban myth doesn't it?

Please explain how that is nasty and racist.