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

I know some one called D’Anielle. Shocking.

I'll raise you Jaxon (Jackson), Korra (Cora), Leigha (Leah) and Emme (Emmy).

This was my first thought

I think that’s the Polish spelling. At least there is a Polish lad in dds school who spells it like that

I did wonder if the c should be ç but the person typing it didn't have the option on their keyboard?

Goat floater here!! 🙋‍♀️

Love this! 😆😆

If it is, fair enough. I say it wrong in my head every time though.

I hate it when perfectly good nouns are messed around with.

I've met a teenage Hollye and a Hollie. 😫

DH, DD and I all have names which can be spelled more than one way. We all have the standard spellings. Very few people check and we get all sorts as a result. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's the brainless Towie/Love island brigade who advocate the weird spellings.

I know a Jaxon and a Leigha! They’re kind of acceptable. Unlike bloody Djaque!

re: registrar, someone I was talking to the other day said that they were told by the registrar that they could deny some names 🤷🏻‍♀️

Nearly all my friends and DC’s friends are adoptive families. They tend to be more understanding of our situation. One of the children I’m referring to is a sibling of my own DC, adopted into a different family. I also work in a related profession.

not necessarily, unless you know for certain they aren't from Eastern Europe as that is usually the spelling from Eastern European countries, same with Victoria often spelt Wiktoria

A girl I went to school with called her daughter Jorja because "that's how all the other kids will spell it anyway". Her two other kids hadn't classic names with normal spellings!

Some European countries spell names slightly differently!
But I was taken back by Jorja

I always remember a contestant on the X-Factor ages ago with the name Tracy - only it was spelled Treyc. That decision by her parents always struck me as... unwise.

With some names with a changed or added letter, you can have a guess at what it's meant to be; but with others, not a clue.

But it's YOU-NEEK, innit? Parents think their child is SO special and SO unique and precious and needs to stand out, so couldn't possibly be Thomas or Sophie, they have to be Toh-Mazz or Sohpheigh or something else ridiculous.

And all that happens is the poor child has a life of saying Emma - no, E-M-A-H.

I know an Amme (Amy).

I laughed at the attempt at James but also laughing at everyone that thought that the goat was an accident… cwazy

I know an adult Jaymes and always wonder why the fuck he hasn’t changed his name from that utterly ridiculous spelling.
In my head and to others I even call him jay-mes. I can’t be the only one

Totally agree my sister did this because her husband couldn’t spell the name correctly so they just spelt it how it sounded!!
poor niece has spent her whole life so far having to explain !

Is it Germany that has a list of acceptable names - no deviation allowed ?

I called my DS Mark, can't do anything with that. But the nursery called him Marky until I protested.

Doing family history I am very amused at US names when tracing ancestors to living DNA matches. Its very British to stick with much more traditional names. In the UK you get generation after generation called John and George and Mary and Elizabeth. It started to change about the 1920s but this was much earlier in the US and in part due to so many people who spoke different languages moving there at the same time rather than there being an established community into which people assimilated.

The Mormons have a particular thing for unique names - it's put down to the trend of having children young. They seem to have the wackiest names of all - there was a particular trend of 'frenchifying' names for a period. It's really weird. And yes the spellings are out there.

So I think it's not necessarily that weird that we are seeing a change in naming patterns in the UK to things that are unusual which has occurred at the same time as globalisation and world communities online.

It's Polish.

I know Iceland has a very strict list.

That’s right, it is