Interesting spellings.

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I saw this one today. Lileigh.

Not saying it's good or bad. Never seen it before that's all.

I know an Anaïs whose name is actually spelled correctly, but the parents pronounce it wrong. They call her Anay instead of Ann-ay-ees. They pronounce the perfumecwrong as well.
And I know a Kraig. His whole family have C names spelled with a K.

Don't know any personally, but I know there are some girls (thank you name stats) called nevaeh-rae.

Ear-heaven. FFS.

I'm a Josephene not a Josephine as my dad said it should be pronounced Joseph-fine

Never found a personalised keyring on school trips and my phone auto corrects it every time

There was a girl at th doctors the other day cause ezmaie swear it thought she was called eczema.

I've seen Ayrille and Sharlett. Just 2 that stick with me S wtf! I'm sure I've seen others.

There's a little girl at dd's school named after a precious stone but spelt wrong. (Think "Dimond".) I spent ages believing it was a misprint by school on the class list.

I don't get it - mum seems pretty sensible and we love in the age of google.

My daughter is called Gabriela, yes, with one L. We can spell, we weren't trying to be clever or funny, and yes it is irritating having people Mia-spell it. But DH is half Spanish/half Italian. We wanted names that worked in all languages. In Spanish a double L is pronounced either as a Y sound or a J sound (depending on where in Spain you are from), so we used the Spanish spelling which then sounds the same as in English.

My second daughter is Luisa, no O, I can still spell, but her name isn't Louisa (said with the soft Z sound), it is pronounced with a S sound, so Loo-ee-Sa.

How about Ashleigh for Ashley, Alekzandra for Alexandra and Maddisynn instead of Madison.

Why do need to add extra vowels and double letters.

middle Anaïs was kicked off my list as i didn't like the prounciation 'anay' that all the websites/books etc said it was.

I'd grown up thinking it was 'ah-nay-ees' but was left disappointed now you come here and tell me you've been told the other way

let's hope dc2 is a girl

I think you've misunderstood me Szeli. The diaeresis (two dots) over a vowel when there are two vowels next to each other in a word indicate that both vowels should be pronounced separately. So Ah-nay-ees is correct.

nope i understood. i was told ah-nay-ees was wrong much to my chargrin

Anay is silly. Ah-nay-ees is quite nice.

If you're going to give a child an unusal name, at least learn to pronounce it properly.