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?

I don't get the Guy/Gooey thing. In what context is 'uy' ever pronounced 'ooey'?!

I know a Portugese man called Guy who's family pronounce his name Gooey. He pronounces it Guy now he lives in Britain.

Pinkhyena I thought a girl named chlamydia was an urban myth!
Very old thread

My mum taught a boy whose name was pronounced Huggy (spelled Hughie)

Stealth: it is. Variations of that myth date back to 1917.

www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

We've called our daughter Isobelle. It's my DH's fault for texting me with that spelling when I was about to register her. His idea was that we had the geographical meaning of Iso (constant) with the french Belle (beautiful). Already it's proving a slightly silly idea! There are at least three other more plausible spellings . . she's going to be spelling it for ever!

I met a boy called Isobel. I thought it was lovely.

Daizee-bel

Tsuki

Kame

(Fell, I'm in Australia, have been for about 2 1/3 years - I do vaguely remember you discussing it but the actuality of it had obviously escaped me! Hope you're enjoying yourself there anyway )

I know of a Jaymee for a girl. Sorry but yes I did judge.

I know a Jorja too.

Apologies if this has already been covered, not managed to read whole thread. I have a Jenni, spelling chosen to ease confusion when learning her name at an early age. Instead of confusing her with an extra "e" for Jennie or a random "y" for Jenny we just knocked the "fer" off the end. Made it easier for her to recognise both versions of her name as she is both Jenni and Jennifer dependent on the situation. She is 11 now and really loves her name.

An ex-boyfriend has a friend called Erykyah (Erica). Her parents had spelled it properly, but she decided at age 25 that she wanted to be 'different'

I currently am at 25 different spellings and pronunciations of my name (Rhiannon, said Ree-ann-non). I tried shortening it to Rhi to make things easier, but now I get Rhea, Ree, Ri, Rye, Ria.... etc. I dont think there is a single christmas card this year that is spelt correctly other than from family. But then family have all spelt my DD's name with a 'y' instead of an 'ie' at the end so I think I've just made things worse for myself. If I get a card with all 3 of our names spelt correctly, I may just frame it.

SIL says at least people send a card and its the thought that counts. I actually find it more thoughtless than no cad at all!

MumblesUk I have an Isabel - no one ever spells it the way we do!

I know someone who named their DS Alexzander!

FellatioNelson prefixing names with D' is an Italian-language thing, as in D'Addario - the brand of Italian guitar strings

I know a Hiedi. It's Heidi, FGS!

Oh! And I went to school with a Funkii. The names bad enough, but the double i at the end is just plain awful.

kateshmates Tomaz is widely used in poland as a spelling for Thomas it could be that they have polish heritage as i do, i would have loved to use my grandads name but people would have struggled two fold with it, spelling and pronounciation.

Thats why when he arrived in this country, he was duly given a short english, easy to pronounce name by his friends!!

Shital, i believe is a Hindu boys name, not sure of the meaning.

Danyal is the Islamic for Daniel.

I do know of a Dre, as in Dr Dre (poor sod).

OP, I think you are making those names up!

DD3 and DD4 are in a choir and practicing hard for Christmas. Last week the director called the roll and came to a name he pronounced 'Malaria'. She told him it was spelled Malaria but pronounced Mallory.

Prefixing first names with a D' is very much a US inner city African American thing. Le and La are popular prefixes too, and random hyphens in the middle of a name are also very common. And that is absolutely not an urban legend. Back in the 1920s and 30s names like LaVerne used to be very popular for people of all ethnicities in the American south and southwest, and substituting a V for a B was also fashionable (hence names like Veryl instead of Beryl).

Searlait would almost be pronounced Charlotte in Irish (more like Charlit). Maybe that's what the parents were aiming at?

What is wrong with Abraham or Cormack?

I think Khloe is actually more correct (closer to original Greek) than Chloe..

There is an American football player name D'Brickashaw after Father Ralph de Bricassart from the Thorn Birds. I was named Megan after the heroine, so I can commiserate. Think I got the far better end of the stick though!