To not use proper spellings when naming your child

[Catterpillarsflipflops]

Am I being unreasonable to think it's ridiculous to use a funky spelling of a normal name. I spent today dealing with lost paperwork for a child as the person that took the details didn't think to check the spelling as there is no other spelling of the name.

It looks silly and just causes no end of problems for the child. It also disadvantages them as straight away people get an image of what the child is like.

I've seen

Jaymz
Ezmay
Lil-leigh

lol no way

It’s not unique, it’s not clever. It just shows that your parents weren’t very classy or clever.

Jaymz 😭 this can’t be real 😂😂😂

It’s a fucking Tradgedeigh

Oh I so wish I was joking

Got to be either from the Bible or Shakespeare or Royalty for me...

I had to say “Jaymz” aloud a few times to understand what they were aiming for 😂 honestly there’s only so many names, I’m never sure why parents go for whacky spelling.

It just shows how thick people are, to be honest.

what ever floats your goat but it will make me raise a eyebrow ,its just odd

I know it's a typical but forever more I want to use the phrase "floats your goat" 🤣

Oh dear! Poor child. ☹️

I like to float a goat but hate the spellings.
Larna as they want to be sure that people say Lar like car.
The goat typo has made me so happy. Love goats

I had to think about Jaymz!

I'm not fan, but then naming my son with a common traditional name starting with G but sounds like a J, there were times he was trying to learn how to spell it, and I wished I had just called him Ben.

Was it in Wales - though the double LL would make it a completely different sound so it can’t have been! but why do that!!

I now can't get an image of floating goats out of my head. 🤣

Love the floating goats! May use it

Yep I know a jaymz too. Mind-boggling

Floats your goat 🤣

=p

I am not a fan of stupid attempts at being edgy fancy spelt names. Though I am a tad hypocritical as one of my children has a different spelling of their name, as opposed to the common spelling here. In my defence it is a recognised European spelling and they are used to getting their name spelt wrong. We are not that precious about it.

I met an Evon last week

If I’m remembering it correctly, the first Freakanomics book - years ago now - correlated “unique” spellings with low levels of high school attainment in the parent/s in the US.

It reeks of that banal urge to be YouNeek.

Were they male or female. Was it Yvonne they were shooting for?