Maison (Mason) and other names with spellings you may not expect?

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Just got a party invite from one of DS' fellow mindees. I also knew his name is Mason but it turns out that they spell it Maison. I thought it may be a typo but I checked with the CM and she said that's how it's spelled. Probably is especially odd for me as I'm part French, so to be, it reads as 'house' in French. I know the nameMason probably has construction origins too but I do wonder if people unknowingly mis-spell names or whether they are just trying to be 'different'. Either way, he's going to spenf a lifetime correcting the spelling of that one.
Anyone else got other examples of strangely spelled names?
I also know a Camron.....

I also know a female Keren, pronounced Ciaran, and a Maison, pronounced Mason.

Also-
Amiee
Emaleigh x2
Phoebi

How does Skallet become Scarlet? The double l shortens the vowel sound, surely - and there's no r. Doesn't it just rhyme with pallet?

pinkgirly - Brighton/Hove?

I know a Jorja too, plus a Maisey (which doesn't change the pronunciation but looks odd written down) and a Kaytlynn.

A dawsion, pronounced Dawson.I always want to call him daw-shun.

DS used to be at primary school with KT - which was bit sad as her sisters all had 'Anne-Marie', 'Elizabeth-Jane' type names….

How on earth did they come up with that spelling to make Dawson? That's pronounced Daw-shun, as you say.

Surname wasn't Tunstall, wasn it marmalade?

Katelyn, D'Jon, Kourtnee, Kamron.

How are you supposed to pronounce Keren? I've never met one, so I might have guessed at something similar to Ciaran.

Even Karen can be a bit of a minefield. I would say it's normally psaid with a short a, but the head at my old school called all the Karens "Kah-ren". And the parents of one small Karen at my primary school pronounced it "Kair-en".

Oliveeah.

DD goes to school with an Esmai, pronounced Ez-mai.

A girl I went to college with had a brother named Sean pronounced Seen

A girl in DS's nursery was called Ribekah (Rebecca).

Witch is that Ez-may? Isn't that how Esmai would be pronounced?

'Keren' is Cornish - there is a character in the 'Poldark' novels with that name.

I know of a 'Maison' - his mum once admitted they just didn't know when he was born how it was normally spelt and were unaware it was the French word for 'house'.

Ds goes to school with a parissee, pronounced Paris, just difficult to spell for the sake of it

Girl as school called Karen claimed it was pronounced 'Kareen'. Which was news to her parents when they found out.

I know loads of women actually who have given themselves 'interesting' spellings of their own perfectly normal names, e.g. Kayt, Nikkii, Niké, Joolie.

My cousin has just got engaged to a woman who's done that Line - it sets my teeth on edge. She's a bit "I'm mad, me" so I guess the 'interesting' spelling is about right.

Ailee is usually an alternative spelling to Eilidh. It's pronounced Aylee or Hayley without the H.

Sofia - I was glared at when I said "oh, like the city?".

Sir yes, Ez-may, I was in French mode when I typed Mai, sorry

I know a grown woman called Karin pronounce "cor-in"

Also in my dd's class a meaghan pronounced "mee-gan" but as I've never heard this version before not sure if it's unique

I think Australians say meegan for megan?

Chavonne

Feibe
Taila

I also know a Maison.

Madness.