Lilly - an incorrect spelling - is the 33rd most popular girl's name of 2007!

[DarthVader]

How can people give their child a name which is spelt wrong???

Lily is the name of a flower - there is no alternative spelling, just one that says to the world, "my parents cannot spell".

'Douglas' used to be a girl's name and spelled Douglass.

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My great Granny's siter, born in 1901 was called Lillie!.
Some names do ahve different spellings though - like Ewan, Euan, Ewen.
Didn't know that about Douglas though Expat!
One of my favourite girls names is Eilidh. The amount of people that spell/say it wrong though is unbelivable. My friend ahs this name and gets everything from Ee-lee to Aylee on her Christmas cards

Last year ds's teacher spelt his name (Joseph) wrongly all year
Joesph
My sister and a few other people do it too

swedes - that girl in Blue Kangaroo is called Lily. She's adorable but I can imagine her parents doing just that.

DD2 (5) gets very upset when people get her name wrong and makes sure they know about it! Her headteacher spelt her surname wrongly on a certificate she'd got for being a good girl, and dd insisted on taking it back in and getting a new one with the name spelt correctly.

A pedant in the making, methinks. [proud emoticon]

I have just rung my uncle, Sean.

"Where is your fada?"

"In the cemetary, wit' me mudda," he said.

Rest of post on the rules of the fada deleted because there is no section on mumsnet called "Forrin pedants' corner."

Boom! Boom! ( @ Wandering)

[Thinks...] Foreign pedantry... we could start a separate thread for it, perhaps? I never like to pass up the chance to whinge about [cringe] 'paninis' ( at own pedantry).

Eilidh - how is that pronounced? - it looks like eyelid but that must be wrong by a country mile!

My dd is a Phoebe and we've had all kinds of variations from "Phobe" at Children's A & E (the doctor, being presumably more literate than his receptionist twigged as he called it out) Pheobe, Phoebie, Pheoebie, or even one person began to write "Fi....". Have these people never seen Friends or Goodnight Sweetheart?

FWIW, I found out later that it's an old family name of mine and two of my ancestors had this name and used both variations (Phoebe and Phebe). Presumably to distingish between them as they were mother and daughter. I'd refused to consider Phebe orginally as people would then call her Pheebs. Hasn't quite stopped that though.

Like Bailey without the B, DV.

DD's name is a bit like Lily and few people have even heard of it and don't even say it right let alone spell it! It's not even difficult!

My name is one of most common girls names but has lots of variations and I always have to spell it out, it's v annoying. And it's irrationally insulting when people don't spell your name right, like it's not you. my bf has the same name as me but I don't really think of our names as being the same as they are spelled differently. Weird, I know!

UQD that is a great website btw!

A highlight from that site

"We named our son Ty. People always ask, is it Tyler, or Tyrone or Tyrus? No - just Ty. We have a long last name (Troutman), so we wanted to be sure that his name wasn't too long."

[Response from the website]"Oh no! My fishing line's got loose!" (Woosh) "That's OK, Timmy, you just need to fasten the line better with a double-hitch knot!" "Wow! Thanks Ty Trout Man!"

hee hee!

My daughter is called Evelyn. People pronounce it "Eve Lynne" which bugs the hell out of me - especially those who know her well enough to know its pronounced EveRlyn. Sometimes I wish I'd stuck the R in so people would know how to pronounce it.

This year, so far, we have had cards to her as Everelyn, Evelynne, Eveleen. Luckily she is only two so she is unaware!

My sisters are Laura and Faye, and I am Emma. We have had interesting spellings in the past - Fay, Lawra and Emmer. Fab.

In fairness, some names I mis-spell, particularly Phoebe, and it is okay asking if people have never seen Friends / Goodnight Sweetheart, but unless you watch with teletext, you do not see the spellings. Besides, with Phoebe in Friends being a fruit cake, it wouldn't surprise me if it was wrongly spelt

I always thought it was Ev-e-lyn but I am a bit rubbish at figuring out pronounications. It took me weeks at secondary school to figure out how to say the name Ian. I oculdn't make the connection between seeing the I written down but hearing the E sound .

I thought Evelyn could be pronounced both ways (Evelyn Glennie and Evelyn Waugh are both pronounced Eve-Lynne I believe), so if you saw it written down you wouldn't necessarily know.

Surely names are just made up anyway though aren't they? You CAN'T be pedantic about how someone chooses to spell a name!

I laugh at the way people spell her name, but it would be nice if her relatives could pronounce it!

at WanderingHolly

now i think of it my dad spells my name wrong! you'd my mum & dad would confer on this matter 26 years ago...

I've never heard of Evelyn pronounced with an "r" in it, but I would ask if it was a strong or a soft E. Why do you pronounce it with the "r" - I take it it's not a family thing if your relatives get it wrong

Worst spelling I've seen is Lilley urgh!

I had always heard it pronounced Eve-lyn in England and Eve-a-lyn in Scotland, but maybe that was a coincidence. Like an eariler poster, I had a great aunt Lilly, I thought that was quite a usual spelling.