Unusual spellings of names

[tigermeow]

Have you come across many unusual spellings for names? Please share!

I've met a Micheal, a Kloe (Chloe), Tigher (as in big cat), Macks (Max), Sofi, Jorg (parents were not Scandinavian)

[princessgoat]

I named my 4 daughters 'properly i thought', but i still get them all spelt wrong!!

Ive got a Kiera (surely kieran without the N), shes nearly 13 so long before Keira knightly come on the scene.

Ellie, always being spelt Elly

Oakley, im always getting Oakleigh (as Oakley is the 'boys'way, im told) dont know of any other Oakleys though, hmm

Wren, always has the W dropped to Ren

You just cant please some people, we have a normal surname spelt unusual and it drives me bonkers thats why i wanted normal spelt names for the girls, now i find i spell everything as its just easier!!
Dawn x

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Tyler Loki (boy? girl? demon?) lolol

From my time working in schools I remember all these:

Tonee (pron. Tony, had an acure accent above the first e. Why?)

Sapphron

Ayeva (Ava)

Mae (I know it is very common now but I hate that spelling!)

Jae (Jay)

I have also know adults called Louize and Jacqui - very strange!

[TeaDr1nker]

I came across a girl who had called her daughter KCi - as in kaysee or however you spell it(sorry), i pity that poor girl...

[notcitrus]

merryandmad - I have a friend Darren whose mum wanted to call him after the Bewitched character (Darrin) but got confused with the Isle of Arran and wanted him to be registered as Darran.
Dad got down to the registry office, was totally confused, and he ended up as a 'normal' Darren, which he's pretty glad about.

I'm not too bothered by odd spellings as long as they're pronounced as spelled. I know a Leanna who pronounces it as 'liana' which gets on my wick - the double consonant makes it a short A, damnit!

MrNC is severely dyslexic so names that are easy to both spell and pronounce and are short were our priorities.

[singersgirl]

We know a Gavan (now in his late 60s) whose Dad didn't know how to spell the name when he got down to the registry office.

[becklespeckle]

Ee-V Meigh [cringe]

(from further down the thread)

This is my daughter's name although I have spelt it correctly!

When we registered her the registrar asked how we would spell May, it honestly had not occurred to me there was any other way than M-A-Y!

I know a Leigh (pronounced Leah) also - poor thing will be constantly correcting people I think.

[CuckooClockWorkOrange]

Claire/Clare was a good choice for them.

The only spelling of Claire that makes no sense (and I've seen it twice maybe) is clair. That is like calling a boy Blanca or Bianca and it annoys me.

I wouldn't send my son to a creche called Bambinos though. It also annoyed me. Imagine not checking that first

[Ineedsomesleep]

Spotted an Emmaleen in the local rag yesterday. When I seen unusal spellings of names I always assume that the parents can't spell too.

[TinkerBellesMum]

I know a Kori, in the unit with Tink was a Yzabel.

My stepson has a fairly normal name of "Riley" and it really upsets him that nothing has his name on it, he doesn't even find consolation from something being made special. We brought him something on holiday with his name on and he was so excited! "You really brought it? You didn't have it made?" It has pride of place in his bedroom now!

I have the same problem with Tink, you can never find I names for some reason and there are loads, some in the charts at the moment.

So I do wonder how kids feel that have odd spellings.

[gastronaught]

Kyran is a name, think of Kyran Bracken the England Rugby Player. Pronounced Kai Run rather than Keir run (which is Keiran)

[taipo]

In our road there is is a Domenik and a Kristoffer.

[lunamoon2]

Ì know a Clair, Clare and Claire!!!
It took me ages to remember the correct spellings.

[laweaselmys]

I don't think anybody should not be allowed to use foreign names, even if you're not from there. Although if you've got no links I'd probably say it was better to go for something that's at least relatively simple. Something like Lucie I see no reason whatsoever to make a fuss over! Let's be honest most of us are in Britain and British is such a mongrel race it seems to me anything (that is a real name!) ought to go.

I'm confused about names at the moment. I have a Kiwi background and would like a Maori name, my DP spent lots of his childhood living in Wales and wants a Welsh name. But I'm put off by the idea of having to explain them all the time... even though it's important to us that the heritage is recognised as well. It seems we are all just screwed.

[Ineedsomesleep]

Don't go for an English name just because you think you will have to spell or explain a Welsh or Kiwi name all the time.

As I've said before, my name was the most popular for its year, but I still have to spell it all the time.

[Nancy66]

This week i interviewed a Shevorn (Siobhan)
and i've also encountered an Iserbel is my time too.

[gastronaught]

And did Shevorn get the job?

[lubyluby]

embarrisingly my ds1's name is spelt incorrectly, thats what happens when you send dh off to register the birth and stay at home without double checking he knows exactly how to spell the name.

ds name should be Keir, but dh registered him as Kier as in his logic (and have to say i do see his point although i was livid at the time) according to the rhyme i is always before e !!!!

[Nancy66]

Not a job interview Gastronaught - I'm a journalist. i did say to her 'that's an unusual spelling' and she said 'is it?'

[gastronaught]

Nancy66, things like that shock me, I wouldn't of been able to keep a straight face if i was you.

[jade1978]

My eldest daughter is called Ezmae the usual spelling being Esme, and my youngest daughter is called Maggie-Sioux (sue) oh and I can spell perfectly well just like them this way

[bluefox]

Just what is this obsession with having to give children wrongly spelt names that they are going to go through life spelling out to people because no-one is ever going to get it 'right'. Is it some misguided attempt to be different?

[AbbeyA]

My pet hate is names that are spelt incorrectly.

[jade1978]

Just because a name is not spelt in the usual way it doesn't necessarily mean its spelt incorrectly. I can't see the issue with having to spell your name out to people if they get it wrong, the same things happens with surnames all the time.

[AbbeyA]

I just don't see the need to be different!
I would hate it if I had to spell it every time-it would get very boring over the years.

[bluefox]

If these names werent spelt in ridiculous ways in the first place then people wouldnt get them 'wrong'. Deliberately spelling a name in an 'unusual' (stupid) way, just to be 'different'is chavvy.