AIBU to ask why parents give deliberately unusual spellings of otherwise common names?

[Ihateasthma]

Why do parents give their DC names which sound normal but differently spelt to the normal way?

Maddyline for Madeleine
Febee for Pheobe
Pheo for Theo

You have shot yourselves in the foot from day one as you get angry, roll your eyes when others spell their names the normal way. If you gave DC the normal spelling- you wouldn’t react like this

Then when the DC are older they do the same thing and say “it’s spelt ….”

I actually met a recent Pheobe and couldn’t get my head round the spelling. Was in a professional capacity and I thought the person who filled the referral had misspelt it, but no it was correct. Parents were educated professionals with excellent literacy skills so it must’ve been a preference.

Ahaha Russell Sprout. Oh dear.

Bleu or Blue? The trend probably started with Beyoncé's child's Blue Ivy. Maybe the french spelling is the 'unique' part?

I think colour names aren't too bad - maybe they're just like gem and flower names were trendy once upon a time.

I have a colleague at work whose son has an “unique” spelling. Allegedly she sent her husband to register the birth and he inadvertently misspelt it.

Sharlot is actually a very old spelling of Charlotte. I think, Norman.

We had a Krystyne in one of the classes my son was in. This would be about 15 years ago. It still hurts my eyes to see it!

I grew up in the Netherlands, and, as an affectionate thing, I call all my married friends what their married names would be in the Netherlands. I always put their maiden names on the end, whether they've taken their husbands name or not. So far, they've all liked it!

I've seen Nerve and Sharn. I'm not Irish so don't know the correct spelling of either of these names, both of which I happen to like. Maybe some non Irish Mums like the names but are not sure how to spell them and think that some people wouldn't know how they were supposed to be pronounced if they weren't written down how they sounded.

I’ve worked with a Abbygayle and Kyme (Kim) previously, both lovely and fine names but the spelling just looks off to me

Ahh so you do it there too? I love it and think
it’s such a shame it’s not the norm in the UK. It’s nice for any offspring to have both parents’ names on all their official documents too.

I had a Pheobe in my Brownie pack a few years ago.

The kids just have their father's name, but all married women have two names. So if someone named Jansen married a man named Smit, she'd be Smit-Jansen, but the kids would just be Smit.

One of my friends has actually chosen to double barrel her married and maiden names, but I do it affectionately for the others....

I have seen Lambergenie, Jorjaj and Emmani. Misprllings of aspirational names.

An associate did talk about the unusual spelling of her son’s name. I think
it was spelt Rylee. I have a memory of her saying she liked the way it looked.

Ah, a registrar asked how our daughter’s name was to be spelt, and we didn’t know there were two possible versions.
We didn’t google it, instead we rang my sister in law, to check the spelling !! 😂😂😂
We were always going to choose a normal expected spelling, we just wanted to be sure we’d got that right.
( possibly Google wasn’t readily in use at the time)

I am distantly related to a Jorja. When someone messaged me about the new addition to the family, it took me a minute to register that it was like Georgia. For some reason my brain read it as Yorya.

i remember years and years ago seeing a card for Feebee in the birthday card bit. Still not sure if it was real or a sibling had made it or something? it stuck with me tho 😆

Well that is a valid complaint. whatever your opinion on the child’s name is irrelevant, you’re a teacher and should correctly spell people’s names. My children have welsh names and one of them was constantly misspelled in her primary school and i did absolutely complain.

There’s a list of names in France and if Pheo isn’t on it then Dupont junior is Theo and they have to accept it

I have a name that is in the top 20 for girls names for the last 20 odd years, but when i was born in the late 70s I didn’t know anyone with my name, and it was impossible to find on mugs.

Game of Dragons has tickled me. House of the Dragon, or Game of Thrones. 😆

Phia Saban’s real name is Sophia. Fia is an irish name though and I think it’s lovely.

Is it? I’ve never seen it and I’m a first language Welsh speaker.

it isn’t. Evan is an Anglicised version of Efan, but Efun would be pronounced Ev-een.

Isn’t Sharn a misspelling of Sian, which is a Welsh name?

It’s Ifan in Welsh. Never heard Efan.