I think I've found the ultimate 'dodgy spelling of normal baby name to try and make it unique'

[FelixFelix]

Grace is quite a nice name. So is Gracie as a nn.

So what's the consensus on 'Graicae'?

How about Aboihe?? (Eva). Acceptable if either parent is Irish, not if neither are... Pretentious chuffs!

I know a Jazzmyn and a Khandi...

Totally off-topic but I just wanted to admire your username pipbin

As you were.

For crying out loud, Newto, there's nothing remotely pretentious or misspelled and 'younique' about Aoibhe, or Aoife, the more usual version. It's as ordinary as Emma. Can people really not understand the difference between 'made up', mis-spelled and 'perfectly ordinary foreign names'?

And you're spelling it wrong.

I'll hold my hands up to spelling it wrong (partly a typo and partly cos it's a ridiculous spelling when you're not Irish and live in Barnsley) but the pronunciation has come straight from the parents so I'll stand by it.. If even the parents can't spell/pronounce their daughters name, maybe it's a bit stupid!

How would you pronounce Cheyne??

Chain-ie, as in Cheyne Walk, posh street in Chelsea.

Or s'
pose it could be Shiny? Or Chinie? Please don't tell me it's China...

Jaymiee.

He said his dad didn't know how to spell it at the registry office to just write what it sounded like.

*So he wrote

Aboihe is most likely meant to be Aoibhe, pronounced Eva or Ava depending on your Irish accent (Eva for Connacht Irish, Ava for Kerry Irish).

The name pronounced EEfa is spelled Aoife.

If spelled right, Irish names are never ridiculous. They are names in a different language that naturally comes with its own orthographic system.

If spelled right, Irish names are never ridiculous.

They are if your only connection to Ireland is that you quite like some U2 albums. Similarly, calling your child ? and demanding that it be spelt that way isn't ridiculous if you're Chinese, although the pinyin transliteration Jia might help get in into the school database, but is cultural appropriation and wildly pretentious if you aren't.

I went to school with a Kamaran and a Jazelle.

Exactly Ricardian! Thank you!

Aaliveigha

And it also has a hyphen and another name straight after it (but Im trying ti remain even slightly annonymous).

Quklowii

I get extremely uncomfortable on these threads as they can feel racist. For example the La-a wouldn't be ridiculed I hope if it were simply Ladasha, a completely normal, probably African American name.

I worry that we are subliminally lowering our expectations of the people these children will become as a result of the choices (or illiteracy) of their parents.

Other cultural names and concepts are of value too, other phonetic systems are equally valid.

And I honestly don't mean to be PO, but with spellings this unusual the poor kid googling themselves in a few years will find this thread.

You are right, Scone.

I feel bad about the names chosen by people who are genuinely unaware of how bizarre they appear. As long as a child is loved, that matters and the name does not.

It is a natural thing to find amusing the proclivities of those different to ourselves - perhaps in terms of 'class' or intelligence. But it probably needs to be stifled somewhat.

Lower, upper, more intelligent, less intelligent.

I think it's part of the human condition. But as with many things that are natural, it warrants suppression.

Higher, I mean, not upper. But you know what I mean.