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 taught a Shivonne.

Jessycaugh

That's not even pretty to look at so no idea what the parents were thinking.

I've heard of a Fee-bee and a rubeigh

Is my son going to have a big problem then?

His name is Aleks. We wanted a name that was known in England and DH's home country. There's no X in the alphabet there.

No he won't have a problem in RL, only on MN.

All the oh so clever mnetters feeling sorry for the poor children

It's not just MN where these sorts of names are ridiculed, I've seen it plenty of other places too.

Dontbugme Aleks is nice and understandable as to why you chose it. What justification is there for Jessycaugh?

crash

would JessieCow be better?

how about Vanilla Skye?

As a joke I'm co-parenting an imaginary Royal Baby with another MNer.

the baby is called Harpoon Killah Wales!

Oh dear. What a shame for those children.

I don't even like 'Calum' instead of 'Callum'.

(Also names like 'Sky'. It's like calling your baby, 'Water', 'Soil', 'Grass' or similar).

Someone I work with is also a registrar. She told me the most bizarre name she'd come across, she had to ask the Dad to spell it out - he took off his T-shirt to proudly show her his tattoo! (Spoilsport colleague refused to tell me the actual name though - some sort of professional code of conduct amongst registrars, even if not official.)

Sorry, am scanning through this so apologies if a repetition. This is quite mild, but I recently came across "LEWIE" (Louis).

I get old English names, and non-English versions of names, but I don't understand the whole excuse of "I didn't know how to spell it" - go and look it up!

My Dad had his middle name misspelled because the registrar was illiterate. My friend's son has his middle name misspelled because his parents were so focused on making sure his first name was correctly spelled on the birth certificate they forgot to check.

I do recall overhearing a conversation between a mother and a midwife. The woman wanted to name her daughter after her mother. She and her mother were very close. Her mother came to visit her every day she was in the hospital waiting to have her ELCS. Her mother's name was Priscilla. But the woman didn't know how to spell it. I cringed when I heard her saying loudly, "Er....P-E-R-S...oh I dunno". It was going to be Priscilla-Mae/Mai too.

I feel really sorry for these kids.

I live next door to a DAISEE...

I know a jaden.

It's Jayden really.

I have taught a Xaq (Zach), a Conna, Konna, Conar, Connah and a Konner ...

Calum's the traditional spelling choco!

Worst I've seen is Klayre for Clare

Connah must be a traditional variant as there's Connah's Quay in North Wales (although presumably that was a surname).

A friend had a passport renewed that got delivered whilst i was visiting her.
She showed me the new passport and i asked her what her middle name was with a confused face.
She replied 'Louise!'
The name was spelt 'Lousie'
It was not a passport error and no one had ever mentioned that typo before

Shes 24. She spells it Louise regardless

milky there was an MNer recently on one of these threads who said her name was Alyiousa and she said is was pronounced A-la-wisha.

So basically it was supposed to be the feminised version of Aloysius, which is spelt Aloysia.

She seemed quite determined that Alyiousa could be spelt with a wish sound in the middle and she didn't see the problem.

I only know a Shawn and Neeve (disappointed)

I had a letter addressed to Philicitie today. I'm Felicity.

dontbug no he should be fine. There is a difference between using a name from a different culture and wildly misspelling it. Another example - I would call a daughter Alys not Alice because I'm Welsh (and prefer the former spelling generally speaking)

I think Alek/Alec is a common diminutive of Alexander in Scotland so it's not worlds away from that.

I know a brand new Ellody. :(