Met a girl the other day and when I asked her what her baby daughters name was she said "Oh it's nevaeh. It's heaven spelt backwards"
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Met a girl the other day and when I asked her what her baby daughters name was she said "Oh it's nevaeh. It's heaven spelt backwards"
Nevaeh is a real name though not sure it's spelled that way.
Tru' pronounced how?:
I've heard naveah alot lately I quite like it
It's spelled that way most if the time. Though I've seen it Nevayuh. Not sure if someone liked the name and no idea how to spell it so guessed, or if someone just had to be different. Not. A. Fan. Kinda loses its meaning for me and looks wrong!:
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I'm guessing as the word "true", but given the pronunciation of "Lei'Xan" it could be "Truh" :dunno: I only saw it spelled out, with the pronunciation guide for Lei'Xan. Really no point to the extra apostrophes!:
I used to know a girl named Mouse.
I've heard the name Neveh given to angel babies.
I must admit I like unusual names, but some of these seem ridiculous even to me.
You beat me to it! Hahaha:
I know a Ma' lu (no space) & never understood the need for the apostrophe...
One that's annoying me lately is DS's besty.. Kal lan, pronounced Kaylen. It's a basic English thing that I can't quite get my head around.
And Djago (Jaygo)... I see Diego... :lol:
I too like unusual names & spellings, as long as they make sense & aren't over the top. DD1 is Jazmyne. All my others have easily spelt, common names, but I'm always questioned on the spelling of them all.
DD3 is Summer, but mum suggested a different spelling for her. I tried them & they all looked like I can't spell :lol: Somer, Summa, Summah... None of them worked. But try the variations for DD2, Brianna... OMG. Breeannah is waaay over the top for me!
What about Brie-Anna? Lol
That sounds like it's pretty much the correct way to pronounce Xan in Chinese.:
If we look at it as though its a Chinese name (which I actually did before reading the pronunciation), I'd still say it's all wrong. Wouldn't it be more like Lay-Zahn? Or that long J kind of sound? If only we could post audio, I'd be able to properly explain how I read it :lol:
I think the apostrophe is common in some cultures to make sure the name of pronounced correctly. With the one you mentioned Teni, if you take the apostrophe out, you could potentially have people saying something like "lake-San" - as much as it doesn't read exactly how it's printed, to me it doesn't read as anything out there. Just a name if ask how to pronounce.... Perhaps my job has seen me exposed to a lot of names that are from other culture so I don't think they look wrong kwim?
Something like ma'lu honestly makes me think Maori heritage somewhere and wanting the emphasis on the right part of the name (Its not uncommon to see five kids from a family from NZ with apostrophes in their name, and when you hear how it's pronounced the apostrophe makes sense :) )
Is this even legal? I dont know the Australian laws on this, but wouldn't BDM knock this one back?:
I bet the kid ends up being called Dawn. I don't see many people wanting to call someone else Cherub :)
Might as well name a child "Love of my Life". Can you imagine that at roll call?
I suspect even if BDM knock back a name they will still use it. They just choose a different variation of the name for legal things like birth certificate etc. something along the lines of Cherub Dawn Eternity known as....
We had to get a copy of DH.s dads discharge papers to confirm his correct name - he has first and two middle names, and was always known by one of the middle names - is even buried under that name. It happens a lot....
Must say I have seen some very interesting names in my job. And not just recently born children. The names of some parents astounds me. Creative spelling and made up names seems to happen all the time. I think we are just more exposed to it in general now because of the net and sharing :)
Maori names don't usually have apostrophes. Unless their parents are getting creative. It would be reasonably common in Samoan names though.
There was an email that did the rounds a while ago (I'm a family lawyer, so we used to see heaps of these), everything from the twins called Fish & Chips to some poor kid called Number 16 Bus Shelter. Tullula was a landmark case that overturned crazy names.
The BDM in Australia is very strict in every state so they automatically reject anything remotely inappropriate. Honestly the mind boggles sometime!!
My apologies. We see a lot of people come in from nz that are no citizens on nz passports, so I assume Maori. It's possible they were Samoan or similar and have lived in nz before coming here...:
Ahhh NZ, the Pacific Islanders back door to Australian residency :)
I wasn't meaning to be snippy :)
I know quite a few Maori names & spaces are usually in them, even though they're one name (Te Kiri, Te Aho), but never seen an apostrophe. And if you're using traditional names like those, adding the apostrophe would kind of defeat the traditional purpose of it wouldn't it?
I have an apostrophe in my surname, so I get that. I've just never understood them in first names as they usually replace a missing letter. I have no idea if its true, but I was told names like O'Conner came about as they were children 'Of Conner'. My surname is a similar Irish surname that generates from Shaunessy.
And I guess in saying that, changing surname spellings is a pretty old thing in history. Our name started out as Shaunessy, then O'Shaunessy, then as they migrated to Australia it was changed & the 'u' is now an 'n', as far as I know, to simplify the name. Though I'm not so sure Le-ah is really simplified...
"Fitz" used to mean "b@$tard son of"
"Mac" and "O'Whatever" were also "son of".
Obviously Gerald was a busy man.
The best twins I have personally seen were Benson & Hedges.
I automatically thought gee Gerald was busy as was Simmons and Patrick too I guess:
I don't think here were a lot of unique names in Gerald's day. ;):
There was a family at school with five kids - four girls and a baby boy. Gypsy, Jazmine, Lacey, Coral and Sam.
I recall kids who were Emmanuel (which is a lovely name) and Jesus. They were brothers.
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See, now we're getting into "okay names by themselves but why would you do that to siblings" territory :lol::
ETA: And I'm aware I'm somewhat guilty of this myself ;) But when more kids come along, I can even it out between common/uncommon :p
:lol: Yes well I didn't think of any relation between mine & DD3's names when she was born. Skye & Summer. Not until she was over 1 & a nurse commented while in hospital. Have had a few people say something since.
We also had a dog called Jess when we named DS Jesse. The dog's name was the last thing on our minds at the time :lol:
Jesus is a very popular Latin-American name. Though I'm not sure if you're saying you don't like the name Jesus, or just the choice of using both names for brothers.:
I'm atheist so using names from the bible 'out on context' doesn't bother me. I once met a Lucifer and I love the name but most people seem to be horrified by it.
I don't get it??:
My kid's kindy teacher once taught a boy called Roach. I imagine the rate for reaching adulthood is very low for kids named Roach. That one didn't make it.
I know a little girl called M ysteeq (the space is so this post isn't googlable). The name itself has always made me cringe but I saw it written for the first time yesterday and actually thought it was a mistake for a minute :shakehead:
We (as kids) couldn't understand why their new baby brother had such a "normal" name. I guess that given his sisters' names, we were expecting Torquil or Addonis or Elimelech or something. Not Sam :):
Jasmine is a common enough name now (with different variations of spelling) but back then, each of those girls had a completely unique name as far as the school goes.
In other news, at my high school we had a guy whose name was David David. Dead set - first and last names were David. No new marriage of his mother, no nothing - that was his name.
And I remember reading in the paper about a kid whose name was Andrew Peac*ck, and whose parents called him Drew. Drew Peac*ck. Say it out loud.
:doh:
I am meaning the use of names together. The poor kids got teased a lot
DH worked with a Chris Peac*ock. Every time there was a fire drill the firemen thought they were being set up lol
Whoops!:
I've known a few of those double names (not quite as exact as that!) but I'm not 100% sure of their history - William Williams, Luke Lucas, Robin Robinson (married name). These are all about my age or older.
Were you at a religious school? I didn't even understand the issue at first. I guess kids find anything to tease about.:
Double names are very common in some cultures. I had a surgeon called David David too. He was brilliant :)
Wasn't Andrew Pea**** a politician?:
My friend's mum is Gaye and she married Mr Gay so she is now Gaye Gay - and my friend (her son) is gay. He thinks it's quite hilarious.
:rofl: Awesome.: