What is it with people misspelling names?

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Sorry but I just have to ask this - I have seen so many threads on here from people thinking a popular / common name gets more interesting from spelling the name in a weird way. Zarah instead of Sarah, Izabella instead of Isabella, Clauhdia instead of Claudia - what is it with you? People???

We had a Bille (Billy) at school. His mother thought we were really thick because we thought it might be pronounced differently.
Sounds like IKEA furniture to me.

Happycamper, my DD has a Billee at her school - When I got the class list I assumed he was from another country - I also assumed he was a girl.

Wrong on both counts.......

(Mind you, when I took DNeice to register her DD the Registrar spent at least half an hour telling her she was spelling her DDs name wrong - Siobhan - because she had registered a Shuvaughan the previous day)

Lol

We had a Dante (girl) once and her little brother was Monte (Monty).

My bezzie mate's dad was harangued by the registrar for naming her Wendi not Wendy. Apparently he'd be ruining her life! Well, not so far, and she's 33 now.

LtEveDallas, love that story. You would think that it would be a minimum requirement for Registrars to know how to spell. ffs.

Maybe it's best that they can't. Saves lots of eye rolling

My sister teaches a Siobhan - pronounced (by the parents) - See-Oh-Ban!!

Sadly, there are parts of the UK where 1/4 of the adult population are illiterate. A lot of bizarre spellings are mistakes of parents who dont know any better.

It doesn't say much about how capable they will be at helping with homework in a few years.

I grew up in an area where the rate was probably higher. That probably explains why, when I see an unusual spelling of a name, I just assume the parents have problems spelling.

Know a Micheala - (Michaela). Not sure if that's a mis-spelling but I think so?

I don't like to see "unique" name spellings. As others have said fine if it is a genuine spelling say from another country but when parents deliberately misspell names it makes me cringe.

The other day I saw the name "Analyse" which apparently was supposed to be pronounced Anna-Lise.

Which lunatics are pronouncing Elle as 'Ellie'? It's 'El'! Stay behind after French class and do a hundred lines!

There's a Elle in DD's class - pronounced Ellie. Having met her mother, it doesn't surprise me.

Miaaaaaooowwwwwwww

Analyse? WHAT were the parents thinking?

I know a Chernade (should it not be Sinead??)

There are names that are common to many cultures but spelt differently - Abrahamic names for example (christian, jewish, muslim) but that's not the same as people being cre8iv for the sake of it. for example I like the name Zachariah but that's the jewish spelling (I think) so would spell it Zaccariya (islamic) which would probably get some faces. But names I have seen first hand like Karman, Destinee (double whammy since destiny isn't actually a name anyway) and stanlee are just bloody annoying.

Or the Siobhan I knew who insisted her name was pronounced SHOW-bin, because Shavaughn was too common