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)

[Ineedsomesleep]

People with very run of the mill names have to spell them all the time too. I have to with my first name and my last, and yes, its very tedious.

[CoteDAzur]

"Maggie-Sioux"



Why oh why?!?

[TinkerBellesMum]

I have the most common name for girls my age and, according to a Heraldry scroll stand, the most common name in the UK. I have to spell both!

[belgo]

I would pronouce Maggie-Sioux Maggie- Sui and assume you had a very strong connection to native american indians.

[Weegiemum]

I have taught a Rikci (presume parents got the c and k mixed up! - a boy. Also a Ricard (pronounced Richard - makes me think of the Aniseed drink!!) and a Divid (David). THinking about it, also Crayg and Ean (Iain)

Also a Dyanne and a Dieanna (Diana), and a Cilee (Kylie). Emma-Leigh, Jesyka and Looese (louise)

This was all as a young teacher. In a not-very-salubrious peripheral housing estate in Scotland. I had to put it down to spelling ability and educational attainment amongst the parents. These kids were all in my classes for one year only!

I gave all my kids really plain, normal, classic names.

[twosofar]

God this thread terrifies the life out of me. If you want to be different, why not plough through the baby name books and find something unusual. Mis-spelling a perfectly nice name Kloe/Jorja/Ee-V does not make you different or krazy (do you like my joke?) it just makes you look plain thick.

[rosieposey]

Sod it i like Mylo - have done for bloody ages and that particular spelling means something to me as does Sofia - different strokes and all that! Im sure everybody has different ways of doing things. To me this way of spelling Milo sounds like Meelo even if it isnt so im perfectly happy with my spelling God fingers crossed its a girl then no one can moan about Joy ... or can they?

[hazeyjane]

I like Mylo too RosiePosey, a friend of mine has just had a lovely little boy and named him Mylo - I don't think it's that unusual, as you say different strokes for different folks...

[Ashantai]

I'm in the minority of people who like unusual spellings (ducks!! ), even tho some of the names on here are outrageous!!.

My daughters middle name is Aimee and i toyed with the idea of having Amy, but i really love the choice i made.

I've since seen it spelt Amiee and Amee but hey, to each their own

[SuperBunnyisUnderRated]

Krystyna is the Polish spelling

Americans can't pronounce Sian - they say Sy-Anne and when corrected go, "Oh, you mean shawn" No, I don't

My sister's name is Bethan and everyone calls her Bethany as if they know her name better than she does.

My pet peeve is mispronunciations or incorrect spelling of given names. Granted, some are tricky but, if you hear it or see it written down, you really should be able to get it right. Especially teachers (I am one).

[CoteDAzur]

Except that Aimee is really a French name, and its pronounced "Em-eh". It is the past conjugation of the verb "aimer", and means "loved".

But don't let a bit of reality get in the way of 'creatively' spelling DCs' names

[Helsbels4]

We named our DS Ciaran as it is the traditional Irish spelling (so correct imo, not Kieron) but I know someone who also has a Ciaran but with an accent over the first "a"???? It is an Irish name, so what's with the accent????!!!! My DS gets a bit miffed that he can't buy anything personalised in the shops but if we went to Ireland then he could buy loads!! My DD can't buy anything in the shops either but standard spelling - Eden. Some of the names on here are dire. Think my "fave" so far is Nafan!!!!!!!!

[TinkerBellesMum]

Nafan sounds like a Brummy pronunciation! It's one name I would avoid as it would end up being Nafan with the Brummy accent. As much as I love the true Brummy accent (not the awful mangle of West Mids accents that people tend to do when they think they're doing a Brummy accent) I have thought about the accent and how it sounds when choosing names.

[Ashantai]

" Except that Aimee is really a French name, and its pronounced "Em-eh". It is the past conjugation of the verb "aimer", and means "loved".

But don't let a bit of reality get in the way of 'creatively' spelling DCs' names "

Ok i'm not french so its an unusual way of spelling the name to me . I meant to say that, imho of course, most people spell it "Amy" and indeed everyone i have met, spell it that way, which doesnt annoy me in the slightest.

I apologise profusely if you took my previous post to imply that i had "creatively spelt" my daughters middle name

[CoteDAzur]

Repeat after me:

It. Is. Not. The. Same. Name.

You meant to name your daughter Amy, but because you wanted it to be spelled differently for whatever reason, you ended up with a totally different name. And you don't know how to pronounce it.

I can't see what you are laughing about

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

I don't like thiis either- I know some and they just look like the parent can't spell.

FWIW, my maiden surname was spelt wrong on my great grandfather's birth certificate (by the registrar), and so we have half a family with a fairly common surname and ours, which was a complete pain as I was forever having to correct it. My mum had to send me to school with a note on several occaisions saying that I was not being insolent, I really did know how to spell my own surname!

I really don't miss thatt surname. My sister kept her married name after her divorce because our surname was such a pain.

[Ashantai]

I'm laughing because you seem to get getting a little stressed at what was a light hearted comment. Cripes!

[mrz]

Helsbels4 the accent should be over the second "a" not the first ~ Ciarán. I have taught a number of children with Irish names and all have accents which I sometimes forget to the displeasure of their Irish mother. Micheál, Róisín Shánna

[surprisenumber3]

DS2's middle name is Ciaran, I just love it!

It's family tradition to have J for first name, C for second but I do prefer that spelling anyway.

[198]

We called our daughter Elinor which no one seems to be able to grasp - we found it on the 1891 census though, so it is probably a more traditional way to spell it.

[Helsbels4]

Mrz - ahh I didn't know that Irish names often have accents over their letters! Mind you, the mother of said child wasn't the sharpest of people, so am wondering if she actually saw that somewhere or just thought she was being original!