to ask what is wrong with ordinary baby names and spellings?

[FlappyTheBat]

Ok, why do people have to have outlandish names for their children?

Or choose a name that has a completely differentmadeup spelling, so that their child will spend their entire life going "oh no, it's spelt xxxxxx"?

Is there some sort of hierarchy of baby names?

What is wrong with ordinary and easy to spell names?

I'm sure that some people must go out of their way to find the most obscure name possible and post it on mumsnet, just to see what the reaction is!

No this is my first time here

Actually Mjay is by my first husband and his name is Michael Jay when he was a baby we started calling him Mj he choose how to spell Mjay

it is easy to accidently revive a dead thread my friend did it when she started on mumsnet. It wasn't her fault she didn't realise but got ripped apart she hasn't been back since. Just make sure you check the posting day next time kandy :)

I have a cat called MJ.

Just saying......

Theres no J or Y in the Irish language.

Sorry if my comment upset you Kandyutt. Names are a personal choice and I wasn't being critical of that. I can pronounce all the names of your children, but I might have trouble reading them as they are spelled, and vice versa.

I met Aarran the other day......

It should be much harder now Pineapple because we have great big red 'Zombie thread' warnings that really could not be more clear.
It isn't as easy as just forgetting to check the date (on the thread it took you minutes to dig up from waaay back on the board but didn't give you a hint) as it used to be.
It's deliberate.
Anyway, aren't you a pbp?

What's a pbp?

I haven't posted on dead threads before I stick to the active pages and don't search for threads

If pbp means what I think it might then no I am not there was someone on the other day called pineapplespoon who was a banned poster and I reported them because I didn't want confusion with my name

I once met a mother at a parent and baby/toddler group. She and her partner had called their DD KevKei!! spelt just like that.
They had taken the first 3 letters from their own names Kevin and Keighly
I felt so sorry for their DD why would parents be so narcissistic over their child's name!

Oooops didn't realise this was an old thread

DS2 is John, great name and quite unusual for his age (21), no other boys in his year were Johns!

I love plain traditional, real names.

An ex-friend went down the route of giving her DC unusual, weirdly spelled names, borrowing from foreign cultures (she has no connection with) with little regard to the meanings. I had a hard time trying to stay quiet: "that's nice, dear" when the names made me feel a bit stunned and giggly at the same time.

My own DC has a traditional name with an easy, common and international spelling (works in most of the world, in fact), which is needed, as both me and DH are multicultural. I have a connection to this name from both of my countries of origin, it's not biblical, it has a nice meaning and a good rep. His second name is a relatively common English name with a common English spelling, but it's a name that exist in other countries, as well (in a longer form). The last name is an easy to spell traditional Scots (sounding) name. I would hate for people to think I or my child are pretentious. In my opinion, a man makes a name, instead of a name making a man. That sounds too much like entrapment to me. While I would not call my child John Smith etc. (it's too easy to get lost somehow) a reasonably normal name with a suitable meaning/connection is good. With a normal spelling, of course.

Aaargh. Zombie? Pourquoi?