What's the worst spelling of a name you have seen?

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Mine is Lucinda spelt Lucinder

Hciwron Ytic has quite a ring to it. Let's behaving you

some of these are funny....

with others, it's actually the posters mocking the name that could seemingly do with a bit of an education ....i.e. Aimee is a perfectly acceptable spelling and so is Jorja....

The Bad Baby Names site is very funny in places but it always pisses me off that there is a whole list of fairly common Welsh names that are greeted with shrieking hilarity, as if they're made up mispelled bollocks names that nobody uses. I don't know why this bothers me so much as I'm not even Welsh...it just seems lazy to spend so much effort slagging off other people's stupidity without doing a bit of basic fact-checking yourself.

".it just seems lazy to spend so much effort slagging off other people's stupidity without doing a bit of basic fact-checking yourself."

totally agree - the number of names I've seen mocked on here as being totally off the wall/stupid a quick google reveals are actually perfectly normal names that the poster just happens to not have come across before.

There are no right or wrong spellings of names- some are just more conventional than others.

well...suppose so...but sometimes it's hard to know if a person has that connection...to easy to judge to quickly....

but than, there is no hope for me and mine anyway...
my name is swedish, so is es (no swedish connection, but both commonly used in Germany, where I am from), my ms has a french name (no french connection neither...) and my ys has what many possibly would more consider a surname and it's an irish name (he was born in Northern Ireland....but that wasn't why he was called that nanme, lol...that is coincidental really)...

I knew of an adult, in a senior position in a world-famous company I used to work for, whose name was Willyum.

I never met him. I am glad. The name always made me think of blow jobs and I might have

A girl at DS's playschool is Rebekuh.
(yes with a u not an a)

I generally stay away from name threads as they wind me up a bit. I feel they can be pretty snobby. So I guess I am a real hypocrite joing in .

But anyway..........

When I was waiting to adopt my DS2 we used to get sent the 'children who wait' magazine. There were some real corkers in there! I remember one beautiful little boy called Dontay. At the time it struck me as appalling but strangely it doesnt seem so odd 6 years along. I suppose I am becoming desensitised?

One person's hidious name is another's treasure. On MNs Harriet would be met with coos of delight whilst on a different site you would hear the squeals of 'you cant call her THAT!' echoing through cyberspace. The same for Rio in reverse I suppose

When I looked in the adoption magazine it struck me that the little ones called Rave, Jazz, Reefer, Teleshinqualy etc etc were the ones who really did not look like they could deal with such out there names.

My children have fairly unusual names and my DS2 has a 'chavvy' name I suppose.

Sorry I am rambling . I think its a very interesting subject s'all.

Kamrin. my niece's ex-boyfriend. I had always heard his name and thought, oh Cameron, what a lovely name. Then saw it in an email!!

My DS goes to pre school with a K'ane

and yes it is with an apostrophe not a hyphen!!

A friend of a friend has called her DD Ashlee (I don't know if it could be in honour the American pop star though?)

OMG my heart has just stopped as someone has mentioned both my dd's names in the same post, the only names they mention and they are quite unusual(mine are obviously spelt right).

Not that you would want a hyphen in the Kane either

Jaxon.

Oh, forgot to say I also know of a girl that called her DS Tee-Jay.

FAQ I'd agree with you there, one of dd's middle names frequently appears on ridiculous name threads, it's just not an English name (it's yoruba, and yes, her dad is half yoruba before anyone says you shouldn't use names if you don't have a connection with the culture )

Kamrin is a pakistani muslim name (also spelt Kamran).

It is on my friends list of names that would work for both her family (in Pakistan) and us poor Scots....

I agree with many of the posters shrieking with hilarity about names that are actually names albeit a little unusual.

The one i found difficult was a small boy named "Jessie". If you had grown up in the places I grew up (West Coast of Scotland) you would NOT pick that for your small son.

I quite lie Jesse for a boy, but would never use it !

Ah but it wasn't Jesse.

(Positive role model - Jesse Jackson)

It was Jessie

(Only modern reference Billy Connolly parroting shipyard slang "Ye big fat hairy Jessie".
A jessie in glaswegian vernacular is a wimp)

I used to work with a Luccie.

She used to get annoyed when people, trying to work out how it was pronounced, called her 'Lucky' and used to rant that it was 'a perfectly ordinary name'. Don't know if it might be some sort of foreign variant on the spelling but she never mentioned anything, so I suspect that, if there is, that's not how she ended up with that spelling...

Michel - for Mitchell.