To not use proper spellings when naming your child

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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

We know somebody with an Isaac - except it's spelled Issac. She's never off her phone, but she apparently still didn't think it worth taking 5 seconds to check the spelling of a name before giving it to her child for the rest of his life.

I'd understand if she was trying to spell it phonetically, but Issac really does not sound like the name Isaac is pronounced.

Could this be Peigí by any chance? The Irish way of spelling Peggy.

Surely not. Star Trek fans, T'Pau, T'Pol, etc.

See I would have thought mum or dad was a fan of To Kill A Mockingbird…

Ok fair enough.

Maybe ajay will become the new kacper of the thread?

I've heard lots of 'interesting' spoken variants of Llandudno, but I've no idea why somebody would focus on the second 'd' (but not the first) and randomly change it - when the 'd' is one of the few letters in the name that is already pronounced exactly like an English 'd'!

Aamie
Isa (pronounced Eesa)
Ava (pronounced Arva)

I was going to say this, great sub reddit

Twins I once knew of… Dolce and Gabby. The spelling wasn’t the issue here…

Showing my age here, but that just makes me think of Bejam!

Apparently, even Bejam was a yoo-neek name - an acronym made from the names of the family who began it. Their names were Brian, Eric, John, Milly and Marion - so even 'Bejam' was a yoo-neek version of the 'correct' 'Bejmm' (or 'Bejmam', if you include the 'and'), following their own eccentric rules.

I know of a little Myeleigh, a Marleigh, a Jaxxon and Domynick!

My cousin did that. Condemned her daughter to an entire lifetime of telling people "It's ie, not y." Whyyyyyyyyy??

So many horrendous name spellings on here - just shocking examples of Llayceigh parenting.

You can't go wrong with a biblical name like Jeezarse or Knower.

I taught a lot of "Jack Daniels" over the years. At least they were spelt/ pronounced intuitively. Silver linings and all that.

Have an american family on youtube not been mentioned yet with all their UNIque names?

LilEE
NayvEE
JournEE
etc
not enough nelsons
16 of them

Whe I was born my parents wanted to call me Caron after my mum’s favourite actress and dancer Leslie Caron. Apparently the registrar flatly refused saying it wasn’t a proper name which is why I ended up with the traditional spelling of my name beloved of misogynists everywhere.

You do family history? Give us some of the best names you've seen!

Tyller. Steeve. Fashionably American names that French people can't spell. The best one is Coeurtis - like Curtis, but with the word "coeur" ("heart") shoehorned in.

I went to a professional event where a young man spoke about social mobility having attained a professional position despite a deprived background including a time in care and dealing with homelessness. Truly inspirational guy, but he opened with an explanation of how to pronounce his utterly bizarre name, which was a "unique" spelling of a normal name and he explained what an additional disadvantage this was. It marked him instantly as not being "establishment" and likely of a lower socio-economic background.

It is cruel to give your child a misspelled or made up name.

It definitely has a very strong vibe of the old joke that starts 'Why did the Mexican push his wife off a cliff?'

I would probably pronounce that Care-on if I just saw it written down, not Karen.
You'd have spent your life correcting the spelling. Thank that registrar!

Ignore this silly misogynistic trend for insulting middle-aged women. I think Karen is a lovely name.

Isn't Freyhah the old Norse spelling though? And therefore not incorrect? Just unusual.

Ironically, I've never met a Karen who was a "K@ren" in that sense of the word. They've all been really nice.

My DH taught a student who was called Thankgod. It was a direct translation of a west African name. I have Greek heritage and we have names like Theodore which means God's gift in Greek and is very normal in Greece but I wouldn't name my DS God's gift in English, I'd go with Theodore. I bet the original west African name would have sounded much better too. Anyway, I prefer that kind of name quirk than misspellings and 'unique-but-not-unique' names but I thought I'd mention it as I chuckled every time my DH told me how he'd have to call out 'Thankgod' in class!