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?

Cockadoodledoo - Abbeygayle is over egging the pudding rather.

I have seen the Gayle spelling though Gayle Hunnicutt (I think she might be Lady Jenkins through her marriage to Simon Jenkins, editor/author). It's an old English spelling, I think.

I've also seen Abigal/Avigail/Abigayil as Hebrew spellings in the Bible but not sure that I've seen the Hebrew and old English mixed in that way. Abbey makes me think of a convent so it would roughly translate as the joy/happiness of a religious institution.

A local newspaper with baby photos has shown a Kaffrin (Katherine)and a Klair (Claire) quite recently. I have even seen a Citti (Kitty)! That won't do at all, it looks as though it is a relation of Cliti

Arrabiata means 'enraged' in Italian, pasta sauce with chilli. Good job they didn't choose Puttanesca

"Good job they didn't choose Puttanesca"

LOL

I know an Aemilia. Pronounced Amelia. Not Ee-mill-ee-uh.

Weird to try to be different and then give your child a name the same as 17 other girls in her class!

I was also going to call bullshit on the 'Le-a' thing, as evidenced here. I was actually going to post this link to this thread yesterday, before ednurse's post, funnily enough!

Fifteen years back,dd1 had a lovely childminder who had a baby daughter named Chicane.
She said she just liked the sound of it and although lots of people had informed her about traffic calming islands, she didn't care.

I know a Cayt, a Cayte, a Jaims and a Jaehme (Jamie). And I knew one girl whose name was pronounced "Sigh-ann" (spelled "Sian").

Shardonneigh and Arrabiata.

Is it lunchtime yet?

Abeigh
Febe

I know a Jorja (after Jorja Fox CSI) and there is a a Bilee (Billy) in DD's class.

Mind you, at a birthday party I saw cards (written by mum) for Mayzee, Macee, Maisey, Maisy and Maysie. Her name is Maisie (and was on the invite!)

Haidee is actually a proper name.

Jorje is the Spanish spelling of 'George', so Jorja/Jorjia is a perfectly legitimate feminisation of the name. You should differentiate between arbitary and meaningless changes in spelling, and culturual differences - just because it's not a name round your way doesn't mean it's not 'proper'!

Neoprene -- were we at the same school, I wonder, or are there a LOT of Sigh-Anns around?

I've seen an Ace and a Twinkle, not unusual spellings just odd names. I also know of a lady named Mayo.

I've encountered Anjeliena and Anjelah, also a Kayleb and a Cerri (Kerry). A friend of mine once told me about a little boy at her playgroup called Lansulott (Lancelot) and his sister was called Rianne (pronounced like Leanne but with an R).

Just found this and thought it needed to be shared on here! failblog.org/2011/02/22/epic-fail-photos-probably-bad-news-shes-going-to-have-a-lot-of-friends/

My

(oops) cousin is called Kyra

Pinkhyena! Really not sure what to say about that one, poor kid!

facebook? Facepalm more like!

I regularly see a car with a pink 'Bailidh' on board sign. I'd hazard a guess at Bailey, but unsure.

DebiTheScot, I know that Hana is Japanese for flower but maybe they just didn't know how to spell Hannah...

I live in Wales and many of my friends have had a liftetime of having their names mispronounced when they moved away to non- Welsh places / non- Welsh people pronouncing them. For example - Rhian (like ian but with ree before it) getting pronounced Ryan, Sian (sharn) getting pronounced Sigh-ann and Seren (s-air-en) getting called Sharon!! They've always found it really annoying and most of the time its because the speaker doesn't listen properly or CBA to say it properly. Why anyone would want to purposely spell a realtively well known name in a difficult way baffles me.
I'm having a baby in 6 weeks and I'm planning on giving him a name that will not involve a lifetime of spelling it out over the phone.

This year, I taught a girl called Aoife (eefa) - beautiful Celtic name - who pronounced it Ay-or-fee which is the flipside of my argument!!

Jorje is not the Spanish spelling of George, Jorge is the Spanish spelling.

Jorja is not Spanish either, it is a (bad) English spelling variation of Georgia.

The feminine form of George most widely used in Spain is actually Georgina, which has slight pronunciation differences to how we pronounce it in England, you can hear how it is pronounced in Spain here.

On rare occasions, it is spelt as Jorgina.

I wanted to name DD Aoife but knew she'd end up correcting everyone's pronounciation/spelling forever so we chose something else.

Will always be sad we didn't use it as a middle name though

There was a Zackariyah or somewhere near that on birthdays today, bless him he was a cutie and I almost didn't post as it is his birthday after all- but the spelling!

You can't claim Micheal is Irish unless it's spelled Micheál, with the fada on the a, imo.

Blatherskite, I also gave up Aoife, and Niamh too, for pronunciation reasons. Wish I'd stuck to my guns.

I once encountered a shop clerk with the startling nametag 'Nakeda'. I hope it was 'Nak--eeda'.