Worst spelling of perfectly ordinary names? Elyviya anyone?

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I have met a Danyal, Daniol, Naiphthan, Caytie and an Alivia. Why do people consign their children to a life time of 'no, that's Daniel spelt...'? Any equally terrible ones out there?

Krystyna is a normal Polish name.

And Pheobe is a traditional (if incorrect) spelling: found in generations of dh's family according to the census.

Kaycee :)

Ashli

The no name but initials as name thing is in full-force locally.

I do know of a BJ... not an abbreviation or a nickname - that's the poor bairn's actual name.

Youngest has recently aquired a mate called Shan ( no not "sharn", short a) spelt syan.

Doesn't Mage sense to me but she is part Japanese part Caribbean so why should she have a biring uk name!

I taught a Rian once (Ryan)

Also a Sharne (Sian)

My favourite of all time though is Dylon (Dylan)

Devon, which isn't a favourite name of mine anyway, but worse when its Deviynne (which spells something like Divine in my books, but hey ho...)

Calub....it just looks so wrong!

Not particularly a mis-spelling, but there was a Hunny-Mae in my son's nursery, along with a Cruz and a Jaxson. As unpaletable as it is, there is a wealth of research showing the link between names, socio economic & educational background of the parents, and eventual socio economic & educational circumstances of the children. So banding children by name is not necessarily the ridiculous concept it seems at first sight. It would be entirely unreasonable for any school to actually do so, but I'd bet my right arm that most teachers could make a damn good estimate of the prospects of the children they come across based on their names...

I forgot Monte and Bille.

The prospects of the children?

Even if names give a clue to the background and past of a child, I would hate to think that teachers pre-judge the prospects of a child based on the spelling of the name.

But I fear they do.

Especially when so many people apparantly laughing at these things are actually ignorant of original spellings like Danyal and Rachael. Or believe nonsense about children called Shithead (that is in Snopes, too).

I know an Ammie (Amy). Her mum is dyslexic though - it's a shame nobody pointed out the spelling to her. There's another sibling who has a name pronounced one way but spelt another. It's quite sad in her (the mum's) case

Yiyan instead of Ieuan?

A friend has given birth to a handsome lad, her partner called and he said Nathan with a Brizzle accent but later on facebook his pictures pop up tagged Nayfan.. I am a little shocked as she is always lecturing on spelling anything correctly and took the mickey when my sister wanted to change her name by deed poll to Emilii

Jazmyn

Chevaughn (Siobhan)

A Katie spelled KT - seriously.

I knew a Natilly

Sibilings Jayson and Stanlee were quite good 'unique' spellings but the best I have encountered is a little boy called Roodolph

cece my feckingidiotic FIL call's our Dylan Dylon EVERY FECKING TIME - how hard is it

I overheard someone in a supermarket queue talking about a Jaxson. They didn't wan't to use Jackson as it was too 'common'

And one more from me Caitdgh which took me ages to work out was Katie

Oh and a Cheyne at Dd's school pn Shane

Just came across an Yvie...... Spell it Evie FFS!

I used to know a Shev-Anne. She got really annoyed whenever someone wrote or pronounced it as Siobhan.

I knew a Mabel who signed herself Maybelle to make it more interesting. Also worked with someone who called her son Jhonee, pronounced Johnny.

I know a Jorja - her mum says it's the US spelling... errr isn't there a State called Georgia?!

Also, there's a Rhylee at dd's nursery

I know a Danyal but I think it is a real form - arabic is it? The child I know with the name is not of English origin, but not 100% of where his family originate from.

This morning I have discovered a L'ren. I've only seen it written down so I'm assuming its pronounced Lauren or similar.