silly name spellings

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ESMAI!!!????

That's it really - just being a judgy judgemeister.....

No I think Jorja would be Horjah in Spanish.

Nothing in there about baby names op

Why mention the foreign names dailymail? This isn't a thread to laugh at funny sounding foreign names.
Anas, fokrul and arshad are perfectly acceptable in the cultures they come from and kaamaalaadin is from a language in which the double a sound makes a sound which is different to single a, hence why there are so many doubles.
Hallelujah praise the lord is not unusua for a person from a specific Christian community, probably west African. Please remember when you're mocking these names that Christianity was aggressively exported to west Africa by European nations which often led to indigenous religions being made illegal. But sure. Why not have a laugh at the daft foreigners?

Isabecca! Could have been worse, I suppose. Rebella wouldn't have flown at all!

Re I know someone who loved a girls name and gave it to their daughter
On the birth certificate it was spelt

SHINADE.

My DC's are friends with a 'Maizi'.

My name is a really normal name, wasn't very common when I was a kid but has become more common nowadays. It's easy to spell but the ways some people used to spell it... Say for example my name was Polly (it's not but close) some people would spell it Pollie or Polley, even had it spelt Poleyi once .

I've seen an Ollyver and a Miia.

DH once knew a Deny (pronounced Denny).

Lord it's even worse than Aimie, it's not Amy, Amey, Amie, Aimee, Aimy or Amee either...

Some of these names are shocking! Why, oh why do the parents inflict them on their children?!

I believe the 'KVIIIlyn' thing came from a magazine, something like Chat or Take a Break, and then it got shared all over Facebook. May well have been someone taking the piss originally, but it was printed...

And in such a reliable source, too... but I bet a pound to a penny it will be trotted out as a genuine name on these threads for ever more. Like Cafferine upthread has taken on a life of its own though the poster then freely admits it's probably a kid's misspelling.

And that is why I don't believe in L-a.

Chanell.

Chanell.
hmm

Like the Tunnell?

I thought that too

It's pronounced 'Chanel'!

I used to work on a local paper and we compiled a list of names that appeared in the Births column throughout the year and announced them (to the office) on New Year's Day. It made working NYD more bearable!
Our Top Ten NEVER had any crossover with The Times Top Ten, which was always released on the same day.
Although they never made the Top Ten, particularly worthy of mention are K3 (named after a motorbike, I believe) and Truly Scrumptious.

K3? I didn't think that numbers were allowed

Niamh spelt Neve is annoying too...

Legit spelling but one of my friends little boys is called donnachadh (don-ah-huh)

Could that be the Irish name Donnchadh, sometimes rendered into English as Donagh (dunna)? It's pronounced dunn-uh-kha, or dunn-uh-huh. (Or don-ah-huh).

Niamh spelt Neve is annoying too...

I know someone who called her daughter Nieve...

Lord it means snow in spanish....kinda acceptable if they planned to name her that

I once knew a boy called Susej, pronounced soo-jay.

I'm also irrationally bothered by Racheal (not Rachael, which is fine) and Micheal.

There's an Elleee in the above at my DS's school. It's not the worst but the third 'e' grates my brain.

øliver instead of Oliver. His mum hates it being pronounced properly as in Ou-liver. She just says Oliver

I know of a Jersey so unless the pp and I know the same one then there are 2 in the world!

I also know of a Blaide and a lenee