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?

Ningthemerciless - am laughing very hard at Emoverere. Surely that's just "I'm over here!" said really fast in a Dundonian accent?!

Lots of these are actually Welsh names- Alys (v.popular), Lora...

Allydd though. Jeeez.

I met a girl called Tiane - now to me that rhymes with Diane so would be pronounced accordingly but no it was pronounced Tee-er-nee.....

I thought Alys was welsh for Alice.
Clamydia - oh dear!

I have also had a Dylon in my class. The children call him dy-lon to annoy him. It sounds like something to do with washing machines to me.

at La-a!

My name is v. ordinary (for someone of my generation) but has a moderately unusual, but still legitimate spelling. I always, always have to spell it out and am occasionally told, 'Well if you wanted the French spelling, you needed an extra e!' Er, no, I didn't actually choose it as such, so...

Dd has a name that can end in y or ie so she's learned to say, 'With a y at the end.'

I know of the following:

Dre (dee-ray)
Dillon (though I think that is just alternative, rather than bonkers)
Kaydee
Cheyanne (Shy-Anne)

In defence of Tiina, that spelling would look quite normal in Estonia (or parts of Cardiff, come to that!). I think Hana is also valid.

Oh yes just remembered, i know a Leasa (much better than Lissa imo)

No-one has mentioned Princess Tiaamii yet which has to be the most ridiculous name.

Got to wonder what the Beckhams are going to call their daughter when she arrives!

A feidns daughter is called Faethe which got me raising my eyebrows but it's an old Gaelic name, just looks a bit pretentious when you are used to seeing it as 'Faith'

It's Cheyenne - a two Native American tribes and a place in Wyoming

friend not feidns (?)

I teach a Danyal. His family isn't English so I had assumed it was a non-English form of the name.

My name is Sian and is often pronounced Shy-Ann (Cheyanne/ Cheyenne?) or Shawn when in the US

Bit like the old word faerie (fairy) I guess.

Love your spelling of friend though

i know a taomie (as in naomi) i don't know if it is made up etc but v cute little girl.

I know of a
Summa
Poppie
Emma-Leigh
Harmanie
Mayson

Some of these are very confusing. They remind me of when I was at school and we would try to make our normal, sensible bog standard names look cooler by using alternative spellings so Nicola would be nikkla and Alison would be allyson etc....

A teacher friend told me of a pupil whose younger brother was called "gooey" (or at least that's how the child and parents pronounced it). One time she commented to the child's mum about what an unusual name it was, and asked how to spell it. The answer? Guy.

washngo one of MIL's ex students did this! The mum read it in a book and loved the character so named her DS the same except she'd never heard it so thought it was pronounced 'Gooey'! I wonder if it's the same woman (I hope it is- don't like to think it's happened twice!)

I worked in a class with an Elysia and an Alysia. Which were forever distorted into an emphatic Eh-lysia and Ah-lysia to make the distinction. Also met an Ayman (Eamon? - he wasn't Irish tho ), a Dillon and countless versions of Reese Riece Rhys. Met a Manouchian (MaNOO-kee-an) which is actually an Armenian surname (pronounced ManookYAN in Armenian).
My granddad went to Uni with an Eleonora Portyankina (the surname derives from the Russian word for puttee, so it sounds like Eleanor Footwrap ). There was also a Russian skeir called Louisa Noskova (Louise Socks). Both first names sound extremely posh in Russian so the end result is hillarous

That said, few people I've met are able to pronounce DS's name because it's Gaelic...

I was just going to add a 'Gooey' to this list! Friend of my parents 30 odd years ago!

I also know an Aimmie and a Haidee (Heidi).

And Dylon is a brand of fabric dye, available at your local craft and DIY stores

met a Looeze this week , this was a 23 yr odl woman - was tempted to ask if she changed her name from louise to make it more " interesting" but couldnt bear too

La-a is an urban legend, I think :)

Zsuzsanna

I know a Bethynie.

Although compared to some then that's not so bad!

Zacharias pronounced Zuh-KAR-ee-us