Bizarre spellings of names

[ShuttyTown]

Anyone seen or heard a name which has a ridiculous spelling? I was served in a shop today by a Georja.

Looked very wrong

Never heard of Jorga but have seen Jorja.
If you used Jorga the g would be hard as in girl or gift.

Dd1's bff is called Auguster (pronounced Augusta). Her parents are Nigerian but I think they just spelled it phonetically.
She also has a friend called Jasmaine! Looks like a cross between Jasmine and Jermaine!

MikeUniformMike exactly. I've seen Jorgia, in an attempt to make the pronunciation the same at Georgia.

But if the pronunciation is the same, spell it the same, for heaven's sake. It's a feminine version of George.

As to Jorga being a popular name in other countries - where? The name Jorge is popular in Spanish speaking countries, but that's a boy's name, the equivalent of George. The only feminine form I know of is Georgina, and even that isn't common (and is pronounced, roughly, H-or-h-eena).

Soozie
Jaxxon
Jaxon
Taliia (just a random extra i but pronounced Talia) 🙄

I thought Jorga was a foreign variant but I think I only thought that from reading it here!

Just had a google and it does just seem to be an English variant of Georgia.

What do you think of Sue being spelt Su or Soo?

Isn’t Soo a Korean male name but a female Hebrew name?

Mheghanne! Why, just why?!

In the case of English common nouns, silent letters and apparently random combinations are a function of the mixed influences on the language and changes in pronunciation down the centuries.

In the case of personal names, the addition of random letters has no such rationalisation and does not make a name look better.

It makes the giver, and unfortunately the bearer, look silly.

I used to work with a Kellleigh. The three "L"s isn't a typo.
What's wrong with the parents? Just name her Kelly!!!

she’s not Nigerian

Oh fair enough then Dipping! Shame she didn‘t google it first!

Ribekka

Isn’t Leica a different name from Lisa?

I met a Zsophie.
Pronounced Sophie. They just added the z to make it "interesting".

Leica is a brand of camera, taken from the first three letters of the founder's surname, Leitz, and the first two letters of the word 'camera', so the c is hard - Lie-ka.

There's a Russian female name Laika, a transliteration of Лайка, which is pronounced the same by English speakers. It was famously borne by a space dog and literally means 'barker', apparently, so I don't know how often it's given to humans as opposed to canines.

Other than that, I can't find any reference to Leica as a name, except on one baby name website, where the meaning is given as "camera brand".

The Father of the Leica (Lisa) concerned did indeed get the spelling from the camera brand.

There is a child at my daughter's nursery who has part of their name spelled as 'Bobeigh' so I assume Bobby/Bobbie but it did take me a minute to work out.
My daughter's name is one that has been posted here with unusual spellings but we used the traditional one.

My own name is one that people struggle to spell correctly, it isn't an unusual spelling or name, people are just lazy about listening to the pronunciation. People even spell it wrong replying to emails which clearly have it spelt correctly! Hopefully DD will not have the same problem but you never know...

Emlea - Emily

Curious to know your name Nerdybird. I'm guessing Lorna, Ellen, Kathleen, Zara...

Leica is Like-ah. I don't get how you can possibly pronounce it Lisa .

Also, why is there an h in Meghan?

I know pipi. Random, meaningless, unnecessary letters shoved in willy-nilly.

I thought I had a fairly standard name but Starbucks and frankly anywhere outside of the UK say otherwise.

I know a Shadenay (Chardonnay)

I think Americans spell Megan with a H because there is a missguided belief that 1) it is an Irish name and 2) the h makes it look “more Irish”.

Happy to be corrected but this is what Americans I have known have told me.