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

Yes I have already been corrected by multiple people. Thank you. I have learnt something new today. 🙂

What about names like Nevaeh (heaven spelt backwards). Sorry neither misspellings or 'unique' names are for me!

Ajay is an Indian name (UH-jay)…

Jaxon is quite a common spelling. I know an Emme and thought that was the correct spelling for that name, it’s nicer than Emmy.

I have taught a Jaymz.

I love that you keep replying ❤️

Re added punctuation in names, I once witnessed a girl with both a circumflex and an accent grave in her name ask her mother why she did that - mother's response was 'oh, I dunno' in the most bored voice possible. Some parents really don't seem to care if they're lumbering their kid with a stupid name which isn't spelled how it's pronounced.

I've come across:

Jcub (Jacob)
Channel (Chanel)
Porch (Portia)
Mollee moonbeem
Skarlit (Scarlet)

Parents just couldn't spell.
My favourite was Ceejay. Who is going to spend her whole life being asked what the C stands for

The kids that learned to read via phonics are now naming their children!

We learned to read by learning what words looked and sounded like, with a small amount of “sounding out” but without the focus on learning phonics and how to apply them to nonsense words.

The next generation started phonics and are now having babies.

So why's it wrong? Llay is a place near me and its pronounced as Cly.

Kiran and Kieran are pronounced (slightly) differently, as my niece Kiran (Indian) is constantly trying, and tbh giving up on, telling people

I am very bored on a delayed train journey. I am genuinely pleased to have learnt about the spelling though and won't make the same mistake again.

It’s a Polish spelling.

I know an Aimmiee (that is the spelling). Apparently "it's classier with more letters".

Yes I have already been corrected by multiple people. Thank you. I have learnt something new today. 🙂

People who judge someone, especially a child, on the basis of their name and or how it's spelt is being very very stupid. The child didn't name themselves.... they aren't the ones who potentially need judging.

My personal favourite is Feebee.

This is a Polish spelling of Elijah

She'll experience a catalogue of misspellings in her lifetime.

Mortified. Should have RTFT.

A common misconception it seems.

If there was a £5 fine for all the posters after the first one advising you regarding it being Polish, you could retire 😉

That’s just how a lot of Slavic language speaking countries would spell it. Not everyone in the U.K. was born here/has fully British roots or has English as a first language (just in case you were unaware of that 🙄)

Sorry I quoted the wrong post

It's not jydhingvtge child. However, multiple studies show that there is a correlation between names and social class and educational outcome and also how school/ employers view you.