Strange spellings of 'normal' names ...

[ghosty]

Do you have strange spellings for normal names of your children?
I was wondering why people do this ...
At DS' school there is a Jaxon, a Kaytee and a Tonee ...
[perplexed emoticon]

Thinking of changing my own now.

How's this?

lockets../ do you know someone with a weird spelling who you don't want to offend? lol

i suppose so, lockets.

At least one name has been mentioned that belongs to a MNers child.

Not telling which one though.

oh each to their own anywhere as Lockets says. plenty of people think my DD's name is rubbish anyway so who am I to talk

I once came across a little boy called Konna (Conner)

One thing I did find was that whilst teaching in large classes of 30+ children those with slightly unusual names or spellings did stand out from the "normal" names (I did once have a class with five Amys, 3 Lukes, 3 Callums and 3 Lauras). Different spellings can add a degree of individuality.

anyWAY

DS is Dylan but I hate the version of "Dillon" even though its perfectly normal and when people spell his name like this it riles me.

I have to say that it isn't just weird spellings that are condemned to a lifetime of having to tell people how to spell their name.

i always thought my name was pretty bog standard... but NO!

It's always Claire, that's with an i and an e
Stephens, that's with a ph not a v

sometimes parents are just clueless. like the poor girl whose name is spelt 'Channel' she keeps correcting others that it is pronounced 'Chanel'.

starlover, you have similar probs to me as middle name Claire and maiden name Stevenson.

my married name also has many spellings - I could be called something really outlandish and have just as many probs getting people to spell my name right TBH

Another thing is children whose parents have given them mispronounced versions of their names. When I was a school, there was a boy called Sean, who pronounced it 'Seen' (presumably from seeing Sean Connery's name - this was the 60s). I hope he never found out. There was also a 'Loyce' (Lois).

'at school'

pmsl at Channel. we had teh opposite with one of our neighbours. I think she was called Chanel, but no-one had told her mum who insisted on pronouncing it "Channel" (not Channul as in the tunnel, admittedly, but Chan-el with a hard ch) as in "CHAN-ELL GET INSIDE AND EAT YER TEA NOW"

Jennipher !!!! on Americas Next Top Model

I came across the name CharLynn (maybe Charlene?) on an American site.

oh yes, that Jennipher was really strange

ahhh as Cristina7 has just pointed out for me and as starlover says its not always the wierd spellings.
Im a Sharlene which is a spelling that is more common in the southern hemisphere than the northern hemispheres Charlene :)

Talking of unusual spellings, what were my parents thinking of?

My friend taught a boy called Nafan. (supposedly Nathan)

That's why we went for Bob - nobody has ever spelt it wrong, I can't think how you could mess up Robert (Rhobert maybe?)

I teach a Braedin, a Kaedon and a Heydon. Makes for some great music rhyming games.

my dd is called Evelyn (thats Everlyn not Eve Lyn). We also call her Evie.
We got a load of cards at Xmas, written out to:
Everlynne, Evey, Evenley, Evelynne, Eveline, etc etc
So I personally think those who have unusal spellings are asking for trouble!
My sisters is Faye, she always gets stuff addressed to Fay.
Dodgy spellings I can almost live with, but when people ask me what she is called and I say, it annoys me when they repeat it but get it wrong!