so there is a new boy at dd's nursery

[MrsBadger]

and I was introduced to him and thought 'oh, that's a nice name, how classic, how sensible'

Then I saw the label on his peg

Alyxandyr

I nearly fell over

That's just krewell

sounds like an Eastern European spellng to me - I know Alexandyr is quite common over there.

actually it wasn't an Alexander variant at all (I thought it would be cruel and potentially too googlable, cf Storm Findlay-Cooper), but was a similar classic name butchered in a similar way

There's an Alexszander at DD3s nursery - just too many extra letters in there for me!

(Not from Eastern Europe either!)

Oh you mean like Jaiymes or Willeeyum?

Or Dayyvid ?

Allfy?

I know - Ollyver

oooh Nathan with a silent 'k'

I know a kid called carraden

Anyone else lol

He's my DD's cousin and the only person i have heard of with that name

You are sure he doesn't have foreign ancestry. Dd has an unusual spelling of her name, but that is because at home we pronounce it in Swedish.

MrsBadger - what's the Storm Findlay-Cooper reference?

He3nry perhaps? (or is it Henr3y, can't quite remember...)

Dayyvid is a character from the Archers. And don't forget Riccccckkkayyyyyyyyyyyyyeh! from Eastenders!

Nearly as good as Feebee the little girl in DD's swiming class!

Thumbwitch - It's Hen3ry. I always think of dear, dear Hen3ry on threads where people want to make names more interesting by, ahem, adjusting the spelling.

ta Bocca - I just tried googling it as He3nry and got LOADS of results - mostly in German, bizarrely!

pmsl @ Feebee!!!!

Storm Findlay-cooper is the name used on cash's name tapes for advertising purposes.

Oh - 'cos her mum was a matron at my school, and she was a few years below me...

I've not seen the name tapes, and I couldn't work out what cf meant!!!!

And seriously - Hen3ry? WTF is that about?

although I notice Cash's are now using Margaret Burrows instead of Storm

and cf is a Latin tag (like eg or etc) that means 'see also'

lol @ elsie

Mrs Y - Sorry, didn't mean to exclude anyone from the joke. Hen3ry is from a Tom Lehrer joke, in the introduction to one of his songs, about idiosyncratic spelling of names:

" a fellow I used to know whose name was Henry, only to give you an idea of what an individualist he was he spelt it hen3ry. The 3 was silent, you see."

oh I do love that song! it is in my top 3 Tom Lehrer songs.