Bizarre spellings of names

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

Looked very wrong

Skky. Just why?

Actually Feebee is much easier to pronounce and spell than Phoebe.

There's a little boy at our nursery called Maksymillion!

Isn't that just the Polish spelling of Maximilian? At least the Maksymillion I know is from a polish family. I know an Aleks from a polish family too, not stupid at all.

Quite a difference between throwing letters together to make a name and names from different countries

Fenic (Phoenix)
Chevorne and Shevaughan (Siobhan)
Alecsha (Alexa)
Eveh (Eva)
Grey-Seemai (Gracie- May)
Lawen (Lauren)
Avlin (Evelyn)
Hamba (Amber)

Jaxen. Wtaf?!

The polish of Maximilian is Maksymilian not maksymillion

Polish*

I worked with a Nike pronounced Nicky - she's not trying to be cool, it's short for Morenike. It's from her Mum's home country, possibly Nigeria.

Aaleigha. I'm presuming it's a version of Aliya.

And the Le-a thing. The young woman teacher told me about the girl on the school register herself. Being an actual friend of my daughter's who comes to our house. So not a 6th hand urban myth at all.

Morenike is indeed Nigerian.

Kathryn is the most common spelling of the name in Scotland and N Ireland

I'm particularly loving this pattern: Hgkfkf pronounced Annabella. Hahaha, poor buggers. (the kids)

I know a Demiiee and a Rebekawr :s

Someone downthread was complaining about Tabatha. That is a name in it's ownright and not a mis-spelling of Tabitha. Different meanings. I was going to call DD2 Tabatha but thought she'd always be correcting people.

Weasels that was me. I stand corrected - never realised. Pronounced the same and nn Tabbie so I just assumed it was a misspelling.

Tabatha is not a name in its own right. Every source I can find that actually mentions it says it's a variant of Tabitha, a Biblical name, from the Aramaic and meaning 'gazelle'.

Tabasa is the Japanese name for a character in a video game known as War-zard in Japan and Red Earth elsewhere. If that's any help.

Tabatha is the usual French spelling of Tabitha (and is prounounced tab-at-a).

Tabatha is not the usual French spelling of Tabitha.

This is a website with 6 authoritative versions of the Bible in French www.enseignemoi.com/bible/

Put Tabatha into the search box. There are no results. Put in Tabitha and you find mention of her in Chapter 9, verses 36 and 40 of Actes (Acts).

The site also gives the English King James translation, for comparison.

www.prenoms.com/prenom/signification-prenom-TABATHA.html#etymologie

I'm French. No-one here would ever use Tabitha, as it sounds excruciatingly rude pronounced in French, to the modern ear at least!

Tabatha is the usual (modern-day) version of the biblical name Tabitha.

My sister taught a boy called Jaymez (James)

According to the offical figures, there are 337 Tabathas in France, none born before the change in the law in 1993, and 84 Tabithas.

La Bible du semeur, a new translation published in 1992, revised in 2015, gives the name as Tabitha, as does La Bible Segond 21, "revised for the 21st century using modern vocabulary" (my translation of the description), published in 2007.

So Tabatha may be the preferred spelling in the last 25 years, but the Biblical spelling is still Tabitha.

And to get back to the point about Tabatha being a different name, it isn't. The website vitaminC gives a link to say:
"Histoire de Tabatha
Chrétienne vivant en Palestine, Tabitha se dévoue au soulagement des pauvres lorsqu'elle tombe malade et meurt."

"History of Tabatha
A Christian living in Palestine, Tabitha devotes herself to the relief of the poor when she falls ill and dies."

Wow, @Pattypenguin you seem very over invested in this name!
It has been a very interesting discussion about unusual spellings up to this point, but you seem to be taking it extremely seriously!

I have never claimed that Tabitha wasn't used in biblical times, but it is unusable in modern-day France, where Tabatha is now the usual spelling and nota "bizarre spelling", as someone claimed, and which is what this thread is about. That's all.

Also, I'm Jewish, so not particularly interested in the christian bible references you seem so keen on promoting. HTH.

Tabatha in French is the stage name of a well knwon porn star, Tabatha Cash. It's the number one association anyone under sixty will make and I agree as such is pretty well unusable.

Ciianne, pronounces Sian.

That's pronounced cyanne surely? as Sian isn't English and doesn't make that sound at all.

After teaching for 40 years I can honestly say I’ve come across a wide variety of names .
Eg Dayzeee
I have noticed in recent years the substitution of apostrophes for vowels ie ( not the exact name but you get the idea) J’rd’n