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 ...
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i know a caitland...my friends adopted her and it's a kosovan (or some kind of balkans) spelling

There's a kid in ds1's nursery class called Chaya (pronounced Shaya).

ah my bil is far more intelligent than i ever gave him credit for - he obviously researched balkan names.

one of my DS's names is normal but spelt uniquely(sp) Funny at school it is always spelt corectly but my DD's which is unusual gets spelt wrong!!

Collision - I'm Siobhan and have had various spellings which tend to P me off no end!
In a previous marriage my surname was Duke and at work I had dealers in Singapore - anyway - Betty Ho from S'pore ( for that was her name!)just couldn't pronounce Siobhan Duke and always phoned to speak to Shiton Puke !!
My daughter is Roisin - spellings can be unusual for that - I just say she's one vowel away from a dried fruit

I have a Welsh name, which isn't that common in Wales. Have spent my whole life spelling it. My maiden was also unusual for the are I live in, so also had to spell that.

Now I thank God I married a Jones, as I only have to contend with my first name!!!

DD and DS have very normal names - didn't want to put them through that!!!

Can't say I've come across many unusual spellings of names around here though. I taught a Caely once - is that an unusual version.

My friends mum taught a Porschia (Portia!!!)

That'll teach me not to preview

That should read - My maiden name was also unusual for the area I live in.

I'm a Claire but I have spelled it Clair since I was 13. Simple reason- at my school there were 13 (again) girls in my PE clas (whoch also doubled for Maths) and 8 were called Claire. As I was the only one arsed to do any work, I wanted my own homework grades assigned to me occasionally.

boys have normal names but STirling is frequently mis-spelled Sterling (equally valid but not our choice), and Samuel is spelled Samuel by a close friend.

Baby 4 if and when if a girl will ATM be called Betsi, apparently the I instead of Y is tradiotional Welsh

I just love the name of a girl we used to live near - Mersaydiz (alternative version of Mercedes). Chavtastic...

That's reminded me of a woman who worked for us and called her daughter Tallooler ( Tallulah)

once taught a child called melony - dad thought the name just meant she was a bit fruity, didn't know there was a 'proper' spelling!

Oh, and one called Geccicka (Jessica)

ah yes, Suyanne Vega.
Switzerland also has official list of names, so none of this nonsense there, thank you very much.

Monkey - is that an alternative spelling for Suzanne?

ha ha. but leider No, that's called a bloodz european keyboard where the y & z are in the wrong place amongst other things! arrggghhh. soend half a bloody hour looking for question marks these dazs

Me and dh had a big argument over naming the sluglet. I wanted to call her Ngaire, a good old fashioned New Zealand name. Dh vetoed it on the grounds that nobody would be able to a) pronounce it (it's pronounced Ny Ree) or b) spell it.

So, now she's in nursery and there's a Babatunde, a Beyonce, a Sweta, an Akash, an Ayesha and an Iskmal. Having settled on the good old fashioned name Alexandra, you would think there would be no problem spelling it. Ha! Her pictures come home labelled 'Alexander'(a boy's name) 'Alexandria'(it's a place ffs!) 'Alexadra' (wtf??) 'Alesamba' and many other permutations thereof. We sould have probably been better off sticking with Ngaire!

LOL at Alesamba! DH had his name, Richard, spelt as Kevhart once.

My DD name is Darcie, spelt differently i know, but have always liked it like that.

My DP cousin has a DD called Finn!! i like it

Pet peeve.

My name is Deirdre.
D-E-I-R-D-R-E.
NOT Deidre, Deedra or Deirde.

It's an Irish name and can also be spelt Derdriu (ancient celtic spelling).

It's proper pronunciaton is "Deerdra" not "Deerdreeeee" like on Corrie.

I work in a call centre and almost everyone I speak to after introducing myself goes "Oh hello Deerdreeeee, I was wondering......." It drives me potty!!!!

All my friends laughed when I was moving to Wales and said "Ah well, good luck Deerdreeeeeee, cos you'll never be called your proper name again!"

They're right - even my future MIL and FIL struggle so I'm just Dee to everyone. Makes life easier!

Sorry for the rant!