My pet peeve: Uniquely spelled first names.

[LostInAnomie]

I don't know why but I can not stand uniquely spelled first names. Whether it is a Tiphaniey, Braydyn, Riyan, etc. it annoys the hell out of me. If you are going to try to be unique then be unique. Name your kid a name that no one else has. Don't take a normal name and then try to be clever. If it is pronounced the same way then spell it the same way.

[deadparrot]

1. The best website for this topic:

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Holy SHIT, that's funny!

:rofl:

Will someone remind me why we chortled at Dweezil, Moon Unit and Ahmet? Those sound like "Bill" compared to some of this crap.

[Left Is Write]

44. Yes, Dweezil does have the ring of normalcy now, doesn't it?

[LostinVA]

82. But at least you say "Dweezil" the way it's spelled

[Kerrytravelers]

27. I use to post there.

I liked it, too, but during a real heated political season, I didn't find it as much fun. There are some posters who are also members of free republic, so you can imagine some of the posts. There were probably more posters on the left and the administrator isn't a bush fan. But still, why read any more of that than I have to, right?

Maybe someday, when things are calmer politically, I'll go back. But, other than that, it's hysterical, even though I have grown to live some more modern and unusual names.




Edited for clarity.

[Left Is Write]

46. Who is Clarity and why would anyone name their kid that?

;)

[Kerrytravelers]

49. Clarity is the sister of Lucidity, named in honor of Lucretia Borga Biografie...

but spelled cuter and with a whimsical twist!

[Left Is Write]

51. Is Lucidity silent?

[Kerrytravelers]

53. She's as silent as Clarity is straightforward.

[Fuzz]

2. Hey, my name is Phranque, and I'm offended by this post!

[femmocrat]

3. OMG.... as a teacher, this makes me crazy!

I once had 4 "Megans".... all spelled differently in one class! Then there is Lindsey, Lyndsey, Lindsay, Lyndsay, etc, etc, etc.... and about 100 variations of Jared, Jarred, Jarrett, Garrett, on and on....

The latest fad I'm seeing are all the variations of Cheyanne: Chianne, Shyanne, etc. and Dakotah: including Dacoda! (as in DaVinci???)

Why do people do this to children? They will spend the rest of their lives correcting misspellings of their names.

[madinmaryland]

7. Hey! Don't we strive to provide our children with their own identity!

Why should we conform to the names that society dictates is cool?

Unless you decide to name your child MATCOM!!!!

:hi:

[Redstone]

8. And how about all the "mikaylas" or however the hell they spell that?

I pity you having to deal with THAT plague.

Redstone

[femmocrat]

12. OH yes....

Michaela (which I actually like), and Makayla, McKayla, Mikayla, etc.

Another popular one now: Mackenzie, McKenzi, Makenzi, and variations thereof.

[Redstone]

16. It's another explosion of the pseudo-Celtic! Or possibly the illiterate: I mean,

"Britney" when they meant "Brittany?"

redstone

[Left Is Write]

38. Oops, sorry! You beat me to Michaela. I should have read first.

[LibertyLover]

114. My 5th grade teacher

many more years ago than I want to admit to (:evilgrin: ) was named Michaela. Her father's name was Michael and she was an only child. Perhaps her parents started a trend?

[nickinSTL]

77. One of my cousins named his daughter Mackenzie

Weird.

I guess it's really popular, but...our last name is weird enough.

If I have kids, we're going with fairly normal names, and hopefully no weird spellings (my fiancee likes Jeofrey - with that spelling, though)

[Left Is Write]

37. I wonder if the people who use that name...

are aware that it's actually Michaela, the feminine form of Michael?

[bertha katzenengel]

4. It's up to the parent. I say, they're gonna care for the kid, let 'em spell

the name however they want to.

Fortunately, I was named after a 50s-60s blonde bombshell. No unique spelling there.

OTOH, my sister spelled her daughter's name uniquely. Upon turning eighteen, my niece legally changed her name. So I guess it's up to the parent until the kid comes of age. :shrug:

[madinmaryland]

10. I agree!! We gave our daughter a name that is a great scrabble score!

Quinne Alexandra! The last name is even longer!!!

[Redstone]

5. Here's one of my old newspaper essays on the subject (minus formatting):

------------------------------------

Random Wanderings

Is there anyone out there who can explain to me exactly what the hell it is with women and their compulsion to spell their names in ways never intended by God or nature?

This ranges from the mundane (you’ve heard it on the phone—she tells you her name, and follows with the dreaded “that’s spelled with a y” tagline, and you’re never sure which letter the goddamn “y” is supposed to replace), to the outright bizarre.

There’s a group of singing sisters called The Roches, which is composed of Terre (which I read as rhyming with ‘bear,’ though I know it’s supposed to be prounced the same as ‘Terry’); Suzzi (which I read as sounding like scuzzy, which I can assure you this particular young lady absolutely is not); and Maggie—thanks for the break, Mag.

There’s even a TV actress who spells her name Khrystyne, and I can’t begin to write down what that would sound like if you tried to pronounce it the way it’s spelled (although a cough followed by a sneeze should come close). I could bore you with a whole bunch more of these, but you get the point, yes?

This is something that men just don’t do, and there’s a damned good reason why they don’t. Imagine what would happen to a boy in, say, junior high school, who insisted one day that henceforth his name was to be spelled Khrystyffre? Or Rahbbyrt, Jawnythyne, or Tymothee? I’ll bet he wouldn’t get out of the gym locker the other kids stuffed him into for months.

Ask one of these women about this, and they’ll tell you that they do it to be different. Sorry to ruin your day, girls, but it doesn’t work that way any more. There are more Debis out there than Debbies, more Lyndas than Lindas, and a whole bunch more Loris than Lauries.

It’s a plague, I tell you; an epidemic.

Many years ago, a pal of mine was carrying on with a young lady whose parents, when they named her Constance, probably never dreamed that she’d pervert such a nice, classy moniker to Kahni when she grew up. She wanted to fix me up with her otherwise delightful younger sister, who started life answering to Victoria. My immediate reply was, “V-I-K-I, right?”

Right.

And this is just the white girls doing this to themselves. Trying to understand people’s names gets even tougher when you consider what many black Americans are saddling their unsuspecting, innocent children with these days. If the poor kid’s name doesn’t end with —isha, it will almost certainly start with Jam—. And they have a tendency to tack a La— onto the beginning of any old girl’s name without any regard to the consequences.

Consider: I once met an unfortunate young woman of color whose name is, and I swear this is true, Latrina.

Here we have a group of people who ask, nay, demand that white people have respect for them and their culture, and then they go and name this poor girl after the bathroom!

What’s she supposed to use for a nickname, John?

Copyright 1983, RT Redstone. All rights reserved.

------------------------------------------

Hope you liked it.

Redstone

[CBHagman]

13. LATRINA?!

:rofl:

What are people thinking?

Many years I knew a very pleasant young woman called Novella. At least her parents named her after a genre and not a facility, if you know what I mean.

[Redstone]

17. Stone truth.

Redstone

[Lady Effingbroke]

48. I once worked with a very nice young woman named Latrina.

I didn't have the heart to tell her that her name bore a more-than-striking resemblance to a primitive structure for the purpose of attending to certain bodily functions...

[nickinSTL]

78. My fiancee knew of a pair of twins in her hometown

whose names were pronounced Oraungelo and Lemaungelo, spelled Orangejello and Lemonjello.

:puke:

[nonconformist]

106. That's an urban legend, I've heard it dozens of times

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm

[nickinSTL]

119. huh. I hadn't heard that anywhere else

:shrug:

[Hugin]

89. LOL!

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

23. Good piece, Redstone!

Signed,


Ceahtle'Gyrl

[Redstone]

34. Thanks, Ceahtle'Gyrl. Or should that be "LaQuaCeahtle'GyrlQuishon?"

Redstone

[SeattleGirl]

45. Bwahahaha! I just laughed so hard, it brought tears to my eyes!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

You are the best, Redstone!

[Redstone]

50. Glad to make you laugh. I count it as a good day when I've done that. But I don't get

those "made-up black" names. You want to give your kid a genuine African name? No problem for me; I don't have the slightest trouble pronouncing African names. And I do very much respect the idea of black Americans giving their kids African names, just like if an American of Irish heritage wants to give their kid a Celtic name.

But the made-up stuff bothers me.

Redstone

[Beausoir]

97. I knew a Titanica..honest to god. It was pronounced Tee-sha-nee-ka.

[CBHagman]

6. I couldn't agree with you more!

I think it's just sadistic to come up with a unique spelling for a common name, particularly when that name has already has commonly used alternative spellings. For example, Ann/Anne, Kristina/Christina, Geoffrey/Jeffrey are all common spellings. Then there are Katherine, Katharine, Catherine, and Catharine.

But God help the poor kid who draws parents who decide to come up with yet another damn spelling. You've got the baby name books, folks. USE THEM. Don't torture the kid for the rest of his/her life by coming up with a spelling no one else has ever heard of. :grr:

[Redstone]

9. notwithoutmyhandbag.com. Go there. You'll laugh until you cry.

Redstone

[tinfoil tiaras]

11. i hate that too...

like Ashlie, Ashly, Ashlee, Ashlay, Lesli, Lesly, Leslee, Jinnifer, Jennifer, Ginnifer, Gennifer,

it makes my eyes hurt.

[Patiod]

86. Local newsreader: Jennifr

Yikes

[CanuckAmok]

14. How judgemental of you.

If little Brit'ttniey3yye and Da(on top of Ol' Somkey)aal44tohyn's parents want to give their children a little distinction, who are you to complain?

[Redstone]

18. You forgot DaShykwon.

Redstone

[Redstone]

19. The funniest one I've ever seen was that basketball player, "Anferny." I can just

picture a parent with a harelip trying to tell the nurse they wanted to name the kid "Anthony," but just not being able to pronounce it.

Redstone

[RubyDuby in GA]

104. The Atlanta Falcons have a player named Alge Crumpler

Alge like the stuff in fish tanks. To be fair, his full name is Algernon Darius Crumpler.

[KamaAina]

109. It's "Anfernee" Hardaway

any wonder he went by "Penny"?

Yikes! That harelip image is gonna be tough to shake. That's just cold, man! :-)

[Floogeldy]

20. Thanks for bringing this incredibly fascinating important issue to the forefront.

}(

[Redstone]

21. Dude. It's the Lounge. Remember?

Redstone

[Left Is Write]

26. Is that a problem, Phluewghelldheie?

[Redstone]

31. Now, THAT'S funny. Thank you for the chuckle.

Redstone

[suzbaby]

22. The way I intend to name my first child,

is just to close my eyes, bend my arms, and bang the keyboard with my elbows.

Here it is....the name of my future child will be!

xzfbnejhalwe

Beautiful isn't it? Feminine yet strong. Perfect.

[Redstone]

36. You forgot the nuances. try this:

X'zfBne.jHal-we.

And maybe a ".com" at the end.

Redstone

[Left Is Write]

42. And with that, it occurs to me that someday, someone will name their child

Expedia.

[Redstone]

47. Hey, "Lexus" has already happened, and more than once. We're DOOMED.

Redstone

[Left Is Write]

41. Isn't that pronounced Shirley?

[Left Is Write]

24. But....

What about Kathy and Cathy? Which one is right?

[LostInAnomie]

25. Personally, I prefer...

... Ckathiye

[Left Is Write]

28. Well, at least you put the C first!

In all seriousness, I named my first child Kayla (it was in 1987, at the beginning of the trend; I had no idea how the popularity of that name would explode, or I might have chosen thing else!). I thought it was a very pretty name, and it's a derivative of my own name (Catherine), which made it all the more appealing to me.

I considered spelling it Cayla because my name is spelled with a C. However, it was an "unusual" enough name at that time that I was afraid people would misspell it anyway, so I wanted to give her the most basic, normal spelling as possible.

People still got it wrong for quite a while - we received cards for Kyla, Kya, Kaya, Kaila, and other mutations.

Now? She wishes it were spelled with a C. :eyes:

[LostInAnomie]

30. My girlfriend's name is Michele...

... and it always pisses her off that she could never find any of those crappy trinkets (key chains, ornaments, pens, bracelets, etc.) with her name on it. All she can ever find is Michelle. I always tell her to blame her mom since she is the one that tried to be clever when she named her.

[SeattleGirl]

29. I just tried to pronouce that and I think I tied my tongue in a knot!

:rofl:

[eppur_se_muova]

32. Not to mention pet names -- like Phydeaux and Phlough. nt

[Left Is Write]

40. And phyllo?

:D

[KitchenWitch]

33. That's it, I am changing my name to KchychinWhytch

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. When I used to type the names of 'new arrivals'

at the newspaper, it often got so ridiculous that I started joking that someday we were gonna see a girl named Chlamydia.

I stopped joking about it when it happened.

I am not making this up.

[fizzgig]

39. eeewwwwwwww

see, that is why you don't joke about shit like that when you work at a paper :P

the coroner's office always yells at me when i do a story of accident fatality rates because, without fail, we'll have a string of them right after i do

[Redstone]

43. I know you're not making that up. Sad that it's true, isn't it? I'd WISH that it were

only an Urban Legend...

Redstone

[Kerrytravelers]

52. Lewis Black jokes about it in his show at Carnegie Hall. I've seen it on birth announcements.

Ladies and Gentlemen, for the parents who were too tired to even bother:




{wait for it}







{anticipation is the best part}









Abcde



Pronounced Ab-said-ee. Yep. It's true.

[baldguy]

54. My name is spelled "Raymond Luxury-Yacht"

http://raymondluxuryyacht.tripod.com.nyud.net:8090/raymond.jpg

but it's pronounced "Throat-Warbler Mangrove"

[ghostsofgiants]

55. My middle name is Mikael. Is that offensive enough?

It's Scandinavian.

[Left Is Write]

56. But that's not a made-up spelling.

Like Mickuhl.

Mikael is a perfectly legitimate spelling (like the difference between Rachel and Rachael or Megan and Meghan).

[ghostsofgiants]

57. Damn, I was hoping to offend someone for a completely ridiculous reason.

Back to the drawing board. :P

[Left Is Write]

59. I can think of a million ways to offend people here for ridiculous reasons.

But I'll refrain from listing them. ;)

[ghostsofgiants]

61. Hahaha, this is true.

[LostinVA]

83. That's a standard name, not "unique" spelling

[ghostsofgiants]

102. I've yet to meet anyone else who spells it that way, so I figured I'd throw it out there.

[swag]

58. Great.

[Fleshdancer]

60. In defense of weird names....

I have a theory. I think that a lot of this craziness stems from the fact that most women are pregnant when they come up with these names. I can't speak for all mothers but I know I was insane during pregnancy. The hormone roller coaster is enough to make anyone think of weird names for their kids.

[Patiod]

87. Wrong! I'm adopted, and my parents STILL misspelled my name

What steams me is that after years of correcting people's spellings ("is that Patti with and 'i' or a 'y'?" "it's with an 'ie') I've noticed my father is now sending things to me in envelopes addressed to the more conventional "Patty".

Well, at least Crabby Pattie on Spongebob is spelled the same....

[Lautremont]

131. I know a Pattie too.

It took me years to get the spelling right. I'd always forget.

[MsKandice01]

62. I had a friend in high school named Kymberleigh

But I don't think that's quite as bad as this newest trend to use old-fashioned names. This lady came into my law office a few months ago and while she was waiting on her appointment, I kept hearing, "Stop touching that, Agnes!" "Come here, Alma!!" I was thinking, "Why is she scolding two little old ladies?" It turns out Agnes and Alma are 2 and 3.

[Spider Jerusalem]

65. Nothing wrong with either Agnes or Alma...

and it's certainly a better way of giving your kid a slightly "different" name than by hanging something with a "unique" spelling on them ("Kymberleigh"? Good god, that's horrible).

[Patiod]

88. Womens names come in and out - Emma used to be old-timey

and I've heard of a few babies being called Isabelle and Rose, which used to be 100% "old lady" names. Alma is lovely.

Having said that, my grandmother is Agnes, and I don't think that one is going to come back.

[cwydro]

111. My grandmother's name was Enid.

I don't think that is coming back either...of course, that was in Wales, maybe it's more popular there.

[Ediacara]

128. At least it wasn't "Aegnis"

As far as you know anyway :-)

[Arugula Latte]

63. Agreed.

I know a Bekki. ... Why?

When I see a creatively :eyes: spelled name, I think it looks kinda low-class.

signed, Oruhgoehniyan

[electron_blue]

92. I know a Beccie.

I thinkit looks cutesy.

[Skittles]

64. I agree

how about Suesan - isn't that cute :puke:

Have you noticed it is mostly girls getting this juvenile treatment? :(

[Kali]

66. I know a guy in at least his 40's named Phred.

[Shine]

67. I've NEVER met anybody with the same name as me...and I'm 42.

It's extremely unusual. I hated my name when I was a kid b/c nobody could ever spell it, let alone pronounce it. I've had a lifetime of mispronunciations and misspellings. It comes with the territory.

Over the years, though, I've come to love my name for its uniqueness. I guess I had to grow into it.

:D

[XemaSab]

85. I have what is now a perfectly normal first name: Brooke

but back in the day the only people with my name were Brooke Shields and some bimbo on some soap opera, and people were always asking if I was named after one or the other.

FYI, I was named after Dorothea Brooke from "Middlemarch."

Also, nobody can spell either my first name *or* my Scots-Irish last name. They always add or subtract silent vowels from both names.

If you look me up on the internet, you can find all four ways to spell my name. :cry:

[Shine]

115. Well, if it's any consolation...

you're the ONLY "Brooke" I know. :hug: :D

[XemaSab]

122. And you're the only

Shymaiygnne I know. :pals:

On edit:

Oops!

ShyMaiygnne! :pals: :pals:

[electricmonk]

68. Reminds me of an old Misanthropic Bitch article on names

I didn't know this site was still online but it's the first thing I thought of when reading this thread.

http://www.misanthropic-bitch.com/briandrye.html

Along with creative names come creative spellings. Maybe the parents weren't clever enough to invent a name. Maybe they liked the sound of a traditional name, but they still wanted their child to have a leg up on the Lakens and Teagans.

But does spelling matter when the teacher calls on Julie, Jullee, Jewlee, Julliee and Julye?

"Rylee" is but one example of misspelled monikers. Traditional names become undecipherable.

Mayghan? Is it pronounced like the more traditional "Megan"? Or May-ghan? May-gun? My-gun? How can anyone tell in a country brimming with Brinleys, Hollyns and Kestins? Where Matthew becomes "Matthue," a too-trendy Carson becomes "Karsyn" and an overdone Taylor transforms into "Teighlor"?

Then there are the parents who completely lack creativity. They give rise to the Trumans, Willows, Xanders, Dawsons and Dharmas. They're television or movie addicts, and a name that fits a fictional character will surely make their child stand out.

[Robeson]

69. Did you realize that in Gaelic, the name Angus is spelled....

...Aonghus and/or Aonghas. Facinating...:think:

[Duer 157099]

70. I named my son with the most normal, basic name

In fact, I gave him an additional middle name too, because I had a helluva time growing up with my name, and I wanted him to have options. Each of his names can be transmuted at least 3 ways (eg, richard, dick, rick -- but that's not one of his) so he can choose what he likes when he's older.

His teachers still ALWAYS mispell his name (it's spelled the completely most NORMAL way possible!!), and it drives him nuts.

You just can't win sometimes.

Recently, he asked me if he could change his name to a number. I thought that was clever.

"Hello, my name is 9"

[Kerrytravelers]

71. He was inspired by George Constanza! Call him Seven! Or 7!

I have a plain name. Plain and very simple. And spelled the traditional way, no frills and thrills. Just simple. It's only five letters long (with a double consonant in the middle.) How anyone could misspell mine simply boggles the mind.

[Duer 157099]

72. His too -- 5 letters with a double consonant

and not only that, I never hear of any of his classmates with his name! Maybe one in the whole school.

And it's a totally normal name!!!

[TheBaldyMan]

73. Maybe that would be fair if the parents are literate,

Perhaps there is the possibliity that the parents may have different standard of literacy to you.

I heard a story about a couple who read a name in a baby-name book and decided that it looked nice and called their kid that name, however they completely mispronounced the name right up until elementary school.

This story could be funny if you are literate but it was embarrassing for the parents, it would be unfair to demonise people for not being as adequately educated as yourself.

[Jamastiene]

74. What if the jackass who filled out the birth certificate spelled

it wrong and the parents were too poor to change it? The kid is stuck with it for the rest of our lives and you hate us. Great. x(

[QMPMom]

75. My DH and I tried, we really, really did. But, people are stupid.

Our DD is Anna-Maria. everyone calls her Ann-Marie. We correct them and they still call her Ann-Marie. One person thought that was too complicated and started calling her Mary-Ann. Whoever would have thought that people would have trouble with the name Anna-Maria??? We certainly did't!

[electron_blue]

93. good point - people screw up 'normal' names all the time. I have a very normal

name and it's rare that someone gets it 'right' the first few times they use it.

[Ediacara]

130. I have a similar situation with my own name

My name is Peter. I go by Pete. When I say my name, 90% of the time people say something like, "ok, nice to meet you, KEITH."

KEITH!?

No offense to the KO fans, but that's just not my name. It doesn't even sound kind of like my name!

[nosillies]

76. Thanks for the piss-myself laughter, everybody

I've got around 5 weeks to pick out a name for baby-to-be myself, and my husband and I are stumped. Our first boy was easy, he's John but goes by Jack.

My cousin is a pediatrician in New Orleans, so he's seen it all when it comes to names. Once, he saw a boy named Liam, and he pronounced it as one normally would -- lee-um. Oh no, said his mother, it's pronounced "yum," as in short for William. Good god help us.

[QMPMom]

99. Wellllllllllllllllll. . . . . . . .

Our DS is William Richard. We've always called him Will or William. When he was about 5 he came to us and asked why he had 2 first names. Not knowing what he meant, we asked what he was talking about.

"I have two first names, Mommy. Will and Yum. WillYum."

Poor kid. I really had to resist rolling on the floor with laughter.

He got mad at DH once wnd said he didn't want to be Will 'Our Last Name' any more and from then on he was changing his name to Dick Benson (my maiden name).

Then once Liam Neeson was in one of the Star Wars movies we all had to call him Liam for a while because he wouldn't respond to anything else.

[nosillies]

101. That kid must keep you in stitches!

Liam is a name that we have considered, but I think after my cousin's story, everyone in our family wouldn't be able to resist calling him yum all the time.

[xchrom]

79. hysterical.

that's got a y in it -- anybody tempted?

[Darth_Kitten]

80. You'll hate mine then..........

but it's spelled exactly as it's pronounced.....

Elayna ;)

[LostinVA]

81. I share your pain

It drives me crazy...

Especially if it's spelled one way but isn't said that way -- arrrgh!

Like a friend of mine says: "A name is a WORD. You can't just make up prounciation... there are rules!"

[NewWaveChick1981]

84. Over the course of my career, I have seen all kinds of names spelled all

kinds of ways. Working on college campuses really opens your eyes to the "diverse" spellings some people can come up with. Here are a few real ones I've seen:

* Rotunda (and she was very plump :P)
* Shunta
* Bayliey (Pronounced "Bailey" )
* Caytlynn (variant of Caitlin)
* LeTokyo
* Tai'Queez
* First name Mystery, middle name Bubble (She went by Misty)
* A guy named Bob White (and yes, his parents had a sense of humor---Bob wasn't a nickname)
* Rebecca Butt (must've been one of the infamous Butt Sisters)
* Jackie Booviea Kennedy (she confessed her parents had no idea how to spell Bouvier)
* Jackie Blue (LMAO when I saw that one!)
* A woman whose first name was Douglas, middle name Nottingham (her mom REALLY wanted a boy and didn't want to have to pick out a new name, according to her)


I know there are more, but these will get you started... :rofl: :yoiks:

[myrna minx]

98. Jackie Booviea Kennedy .

:rofl: :spray: You owe me a monitor!

[NewWaveChick1981]

108. LOL!

:rofl: I couldn't believe it either when I saw it way back when.... :P

[Redstone]

120. "LeTokyo." That wins the prize.

Redstone

[Patiod]

90. My S.O.'s great-nephew is called Rion

He rarely talks to his nephew, so for years, we had no idea how to pronounce this: Ree-ON? Ron? Ryan?

Turns out, it's just plain old Ryan.

Ugh. I can understand if his quasi-illiterate, mumbly-ass, white-wanna-be-gansta nephew named the kid, but no, WBG's seemingly-intelligent, college-educated girlfriend named him.

I still think of the kid as REE-on.

But of course, this is a couple who named their dog StringCheese, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised.

[Divameow77]

91. I knew 3 girls that all had daughters named

Raina, Rayna and Raena.

[Courtesy Flush]

94. I worked with a woman named Chetia -- pronounced "Keisha"

[electron_blue]

95. Has txt-spk started to appear in children's names yet?

[MissMillie]

96. I know that adults appreciate originality when it comes to their names

but kids, for the most part, like to fit in.

[begin_within]

100. Someone should name their kid #6,023,414,094

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

133. If bushCo had their way...

[RubyDuby in GA]

103. Asswipe Johnson

Does anyone remember the SNL skit with Nicholas Cage?

He and his pregnant wife are trying to pick baby names. Every name she comes up with he has a problem with saying the kid will get beat up on the playground or something for really normal sounding names. Then there's a knock at the door and you hear a voice saying "I have a package for a Mr. Johnson. A Mr. Asswipe Johnson.

And Nicholas Cage's character screams out "That's Az-we-pay (pronounication for Asswipe)".

[Phentex]

110. We use this a lot!

But with less of the z. A-swee-pay...:toast:

[leftofthedial]

105. well, *I* certainly didn't name myself

Baughbeey

[nonconformist]

107. I don't think it's humanly possible for me to agree with you more.

Both of my sons have normal names with the normal spellings - first and middle. I am soooo not into trendy names.

[Zomby Woof]

112. I like my uniquely spelled first name

It's an old Scottish surname, and it derives from my southern heritage, which is heavily Scots-Irish. :-)

[u4ic]

135. That's right, Zomby is usually spelled with an "ie"!

:D :hi:

[WannaBeGrumpy]

113. I wanted to change my name to Niqole because it looked cooler...

than Nicole! plus I went to school with like 80 Nicoles! which was confusing!

[Ariana Celeste]

116. I like them.

:shrug:

[novalib]

117. Tamale

You mean a name like Tamale?

(pronounced Ta Mal)

Or a name like Female?

(pronounced Feh Mal)

My favorite is Anna Versary

(she was born on her parents' wedding anniversary)

[LibertyLover]

118. I have a reasonably unique name, but I got it the old fashioned way

I was named after several family members, including two of my father's sisters, one dead and the other rather ill at the time of my birth, plus my mom's middle name. Since the family already had several varients of each of the single names, my folks strung mine together, but capitalize the A of the second name.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

121. Yes, the poor kid is going to have to be teaching people how to

spell and/or pronounce their name forever.

I've seen some weird ones in my day. I once had a work supervisor whose name was pronounced "Eva" and spelled "Evea."

When I was a kid, I knew a teenage girl whose name was spelled Yvonne and pronounced "Wyone."

I once had a student whose name was "Aric," pronounced "Eric," and another named "Merrilyn." I have a relative named Heidee.

I'm not talking about ethnic names, which can be equally hard to pronounce, like Siobhan (Sh'vawn) or Dace (Da-tse), but at least have some tradition and culture behind them. I'm talking about parents who think that a funny spelling is cute.

[Lyric]

123. My sister and brother named their children

(sister) Issach, Jeramiah
(brother) Alexus

The problem that I have with those is that they're SOOOO close to being normal! Argh.

To me, it looks less "chic" and unique, and more "I'm too stupid to know how to properly spell this name"

[Kerrytravelers]

124. According to the linked story below, the British are now naming their kids...

Madonna, Tiger, Gandalf and Snoop. Wow.

I realize Madonna is an actual name, so that may not be so bad. But the others. Not my favorites.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061117/lf_afp/afplifestylebritain_061117111622

[Ediacara]

125. The boyfriend and I

Are hoping to adopt a baby in the next few years. We've decided we both like the name Ian. Only he wants to spell it Iain. How many times to I have to tell him no?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

127. But "Iain" is Scots-Irish.

:P :P

:hi:

[Ediacara]

129. I know, I know, I realize it's an accepted alternate spelling

And honestly, probably the "real" spelling, but still, the second "I" is just extraneous, and I think will lead to a lot of mispronunciation since it's so rare in the US.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

126. My great-uncle taught a girl named Shithead.

Pronounced "Shi-THAID," in a mildly Irish fasion.

:rofl::rofl:

[Kerrytravelers]

132. There is one child in this world named...

Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K


I hesitate to provide the link as the baby's guest book provided by the online nursery at the hospital had to be shut down by request because of all the mean comments people were making.

There is being unique and trendy and interesting and then, there is being unfair to your child. While I'm not a very adventurous namer, I can't think of anything quite as outrageous as this.

[Rob H.]

134. My (now late) brother and I were given "normal" names

because my parents' names are unusual and they didn't want us to be saddled with names we might not like later. My dad's name is Lance, my mom's Eva--I like both names, especially Lance. Very action hero-esque, imo. :)

Even with a simple name like Rob, people still get it wrong, though. I've been called Dan and even Tony(!). C'mon, people, it's only three letters long!