To get annoyed when parents spell their kids name wrong

[HelloSteve]

...and then they get annoyed when people constantly spell their names "wrong" (aka the right way)? Or buy personalised items with their names spelt their way?

Not really a big deal I know, but I what do you expect when you give your child a name spelled in a way to be yoo-niq?

Over the past couple of weeks I've heard of a Emma-Leigh, a Sophy and a Jordyn. I can't help thinking 'poor kids they're going to have to go through their whole lives having to correct people'. It seems people don't think about that though.

I know a woman who has two grown up daughters called Jemma (I assume they meant for that to be Gemma) and a Hollie (again, I assume Holly) and she always gets annoyed when people don't ask and just assume they're spelt Gemma and Holly, but I don't know why. She should have expected that/be used to that now? I know she would constantly get irritated when the kids were at school and received Christmas cards/party invites with their names spelt wrong but honestly I have little sympathy. What was she expecting when she spelt her kids names wrong?

Your thoughts?

Hula baby you're right and I am wrong. Mollie is an alternative name to Mary. Seems possibly Scottish?

Change it floozy. Be your own person. Did your parents tell you why they did it?

The arrogance of people deciding a name is spelled wrong because they would spell it differently.

The name Mollie was indeed used as a real first name in old census and BMD records, seen on 1911 records and back.

My name is Claire. Other variants are Clare and Clair. I can honestly say it has never bothered me in the slightest needing to spell my version of my name. It's hardly difficult or different, just like Mollie for Molly.

DH worked with a Nyci. He kept referring to nice-ee until he realised it was the girl called Nicky.
In what language would Nyci be pronounced with a hard c?

My mother was foreign and deliberately chose names that were easy to pronounce in both languages without having to mess about with the spelling. We have Euronames.

I used to use a conventional shortened version of my name, cky on the end but changed it to kki cause I thought it looked cool when I was about 12, what an idiot!

Hardly anyone gets it right and I don't blame em. Tho I do find it slightly annoying when people reply to my emails, which have the name in the address and signature and get it wrong. Can't they read?

Molly (Mollie) can also be a nickname for Margaret.

Milly Molly Mandy ... Millicent Margaret Amanda.

I hadn't really considered this nn when we chose Mollie for dd, but my mum is called Margaret so a nice link even if unintentional.

Isabel is a Spanish name. Isabella is Italian. Isobel is the Scottish spelling, and Isabelle is the French spelling. All are common spellings.

My name is a very normal name with an unusual spelling. In my case it's a family spelling, and was my great grandmother's name. But it's still a PITA!

It's not that I have to spell out my name all the time, as an Isabel might have to do. It's that having done so, I have tell the all about it. I usually say, "my ancestors couldn't spell."

So, I'm inclined to agree with the OP about unusual spellings.

I have a name that has lots of variations of the spellings, it never bothered me when people got it wrong.

I did see a Caro-Line recently!

Since Amy means "beloved" in French, then "Aimee" is surely the more correct spelling. I speak as the French-speaking mother of an Amy.

Really Devere , so where do you stand on Rubby for instance?

Molly is short for Mary. Isobel is a standard Scottish name ( e.g Isobel Campbell of Belle and Sebastian)

I have some sympathy with OP's pov. I can't see why one would want to call a child "Emma-Leigh"

One can pronounce it as 2 names but it's an effort and sounds a bit daft.

Welshwabbit - I think the AnEYErin pronunciation is standard in the South East of Wales but not elsewhere. Most speakers these days would pronounce Aneurin as AnEYrin (some of us with a strong nasal Northern twang :) )

Nicky as Nyci would be Welsh, too, I think... There's no.k in written Welsh so the k sound is always written as c (which gives taxi as tacsi) . Odd... or simple and practical.

I suppose some names are genuine varients of the same one. So at school there were 4 boys in my year Ian, Iain, Steven and Stephen - all accepted spellings and noone ever got antsy if the names were incorrect.

I do wonder if parents have really thought it through when I see modern names with ever-sp-smart shiny new spellings.

There are 2 of us in the family with weird/wonderful/very unsual names (spellings as you'd expect though) and it is infuriating to have every single newly met person comment on your name, ask where it came from, how it is spelled, asked again, asked how it is pronounced - mispronounced and asked again how it is pronounced, asked of it is shortened to x y or z, etc ad naseum.

OMG I've just had a revelation. Why was Jacko's son called Blanket? How do native Americans name their babies?

He took it extremely literally. What do you think?

hmc I think people should stop being so snobby/judgmental/rude/nosy about what other people call their children.

^^^

that pretty much sums up where I stand on Rubby or Jam'ee or any other name.

Has anyone mentioned L-a yet?
Or Clamydia
or Vagina
or Feeemale

Its only a matter of time

It's not really snobby to say that giving your child a name like Rubby is going to cause problems, though, is it? I'm fairly laid back about names but giving a child a name that's going to get them laughed at, and not for snobby reasons, is not on.

Regarding an earlier post, Rebecca/Rebekah is just a transliteration thing: neither is wrong.

I did once meet a Xenia (unusual but normal, iyswim). When I asked her to please repeat it, I hadn't heard it properly (it was noisy), she got quite rude. Since I have an unspellable surname which my in-laws refuse to learn and have spent hours of my life spelling and respelling it for people, and telling them how to pronounce it, I thought, 'Sod you, then' and left her well alone: it really isn't hard to be polite.

If you have decided to spell a perfectly normal name in an outrageous way, like, say, Jorja or Jayson, you have no right to get pissy when people spell it 'wrong'.

I knew a lovely woman called Candida, shortened to Canny.

The arrogance of people deciding a name is spelled wrong because they would spell it differently

That would be "they would spell it properly".

Not talking about known variations but deliberate misspellings (FeeBee, Samual etc) just to be different. It looks ignorant and the child will become an embarrassed adult.

I know the answer to this but am interested to join the conversation because nobody has mentioned this name yet. What is the correct spelling, Huw or Hugh and are they pronounced the same?

I think they're pronounced the same. Huw is the Welsh version. Hugh is the one used in the rest of the English-speaking world. Lovely name, in either version. I think I prefer it to Hugo but I like that too.

Unreal, Blanket Jackson is really called Prince Michael Jackson II - i.e he has the same name as his brother - and Blanket is his nickname/family name.