silly name spellings

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ESMAI!!!????

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

I don't class the name as 'made up' if it comes from another language. I have a niece called Mei (pronounced May) which means beautiful in Chinese. Her father is from China.

The first gift my parents ever gave me.

I chose a relatively traditional name for my dd, but if parents want to give their child something a little more 'out there' who are we to sneer?

We live in a massively multi-cultural world now, with our kids watching US tv programmes regularly, when these children grow up I doubt anyone will raise an eyebrow to the different spellings of their names, and quite right too.

In my very conservative working environment a young lady with a very new age name (hyphenated nickname kind of a name) started work. She was extremely bright and talented and did really well for herself. Her parent's creative naming certainly didn't hold her back.

I know a Rox-c.

What is funnily spelt about Jayden/Kayden Shrunken?

Or are you just using this thread to look down on the name? These threads always bring out the posters who mock the 'working class' names.

FWIW, no I don't have a child with this name. And my DD has a very classic, simply spelt name. I just find some of these judgy posts horrible.

There was a Kloeee in my DD's last school.

I don't personally care what people call their children. But it does annoy me when they admit they made the spelling up then get annoyed when people can't remember and write it the more usual way. So if you call your child Ehmmer-Leay or whatever, don't be pissed off when she brings home party invites addressed to Emily.

2nds - no, it wasn't that she particularly liked liked that pronunciation better - simply she (and presumably her parents) didn't know it was incorrect.

There was another Sian/Cyan on TV a while back on one of Sarah Beeny's shows and every time she said her name it was like nails down a blackboard for me!!!

People mispronounce my name a lot (I work with a lot of people in the US and Europe) and that's fine - they haven't come across it before - I just correct them an move on (though Americans just can't seem to grasp it - I get called Sean a lot and asked why I have a boys name ). However I can't bloody stand it when people deliberately mispronounce their/my name.

If you don't like the name Sian - fair enough - but call your daughter Cyan and have done with it and a) stop them looking stoopid for a lifetime b) bastardising a traditional Welsh name.

I loved Irish names but some of the pronounciations bear no resemblance to the spellings.
Very grateful my adopted DDs had nice, normal names.
And by the way, I knew a Sian who pronounced her name C-Anne instead of Sharn.

I worked with a Bryone which I think is actually a very nice spelling of Briony. However, I also know a Briony who pronounces it Bree-oh-nee. I think. Or Bree-OH-nee (emphasis on the middle oh)? I can never remember. I find that much harder that spellings, at least an unusual spelling sticks in your head!

I also know someone who had a genuinely misspelled name, she said that her parents didn't know the right way to spell it!

My DD has a Peychance in her class.

I've heard of a Summar
shudder

How's that pronounced? Patience?

I loved Irish names but some of the pronounciations bear no resemblance to the spellings

Actually, they are pronounced exactly as they are written. In Irish!

I assume you cope with Sian and Sean etc....?

Yep it's pronounced Patience

I know a Peni.
Slice of Peni's cake anyone?

Golden that reminds me, a friend in Australia (who seem to specialise in this kind of thing) knows a child called Summah. Which said in a London accent just sounds incredibly gormless, like Kate Nash saying bittah (bitter) in that song Foundations.

CVIIIlin - pronounced Caitlin as VIII id 8 in Roman numerals.

I worked with a girl who called herself Nikohl. All her paperwork etc was addressed Nicole which was obviously the spelling on her passport & proof of address when she started there. V unique.
I get lots of "no, it's Calum spelt Kallum" or "Jennifer with a G" from customers at work, followed by massive eye roll because apparently I'm the one who can't spell.

Porsher.
Should be Portia I suppose, a lovely name but looks clunky when used with the wrong spelling.

Yes, I meant the more unusual Irish names. Sorry, no offence intended!

In my work, I've seen some gorgeous names. I've also seen some names that have made my teeth itch.

Like names that are just initials that said together are a name, just lazy.

Or Phoenix spelt Pheonix. Gives me the rage.

To anyone considering choosing an unconventional spelling of a common name, I would from is experience that it is a proper PITA and I hate it.

I'm a variant of Amy, I've never met another one with my spelling and found maybe a handful on social media. The spelling is in no way linked to my heritage, there's no story behind it except my parents thought it would be different.

Cue 29 years of:

1. School teachers spelling your name wrong on every report and certificate
2. Applications going missing
3. Official documents turning up with the wrong variant and spending hours getting them fixed
4. Having to register every variant of the name on email at any office I've worked, as there's always about 70% of clients who try to email a conventional spelling
5. At uni, nobody could find me on Facebook - not important now but when I was younger, spelling my name out in nightclubs was not the most convenient
6. Have to spell your name out the freaking everyone, and regardless of what you say out loud, they right down a different variant
7. Being asked 'did you choose that spelling?' - no, I'm not 13 and want the cool girls to like me
8. Being asked 'where is that spelling from?' - my mum's head?
9. Having to spell out my surname every single time too, despite it being just 3 letters and quite common - just because most people seem to think a weird first name means I must have a weird surname

10. Still having friends and family members who use different variants, when I was younger I thought they didn't care but now I realise they don't realise they're doing it 11. NEVER GETTING ANY NOVELTY SOUVENIRS WITH MY NAME ON. I used to be so jealous of the other children with their name badges and sticks of rock :(

I'd be no less unique a person if I had a standard spelling, it was just so my parents could show off about how different they were. There's loads more reasons too, they're just the most common!

Sian - I've met a Sian, pronounced Cyan who was rather aggressive if you got it wrong... I do hope it's the same person and there is not more than one.

Personally I have a classic but uncommon name which is often suggested on the baby name boards. It's spelt the classic way, 9 times out of 10 is it spelt or pronounced so incorrectly as to be unrecognisable.

KhanhuuKhaii is one I recently saw. The Hies are silent so it's pronounced Kanuukaii. I asked how it was spelt and was told there was a capital K in the middle.