"Unusual Spellings of Baby Names Out of Control"

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BG how do you pronounce Nevaeh?

Neh-vay-ah : My friends DD has the same name I love it! Her twin is Levi, so they have Heaven & Ivel (evil) spelt backwards


Go the stripper kids

My DD goes to school with a 10 year old boy called Mango. From an upper social class. I think thats not fair. That child will have problems later in life, but Sindy? I really don't see that as a stripper name myself. Would Cindy have been ok?? My GP's name is Denny. Didn't affect his life or proffession that I can see. Then there's Layne Beachley - I focus on her surfing, not her name - as do most as far as I know. I never thought her name made her 'better', & it never crossed my mind that Michael Jackson was affected in any way by his 'common' name. Its their talent that makes them famous, not their name. I guess its possible that naming DD Jazmyne I gave her 'stripper' talent...Mind you she is very talented at alot of things. Especially athletics. I really believe its the area a child grows up in that makes a child who they are, not their name.
Thats why I moved to where I am now. We lived in a town full of drugs & teen pregnancies. If thats what everyone else is doing, thats what I'd expect of my DD. Now we live in a town where there is a very high uni rate, low to no teen pregnancies & every area has drugs, but they are not the life style here. There is not one person in town here that lives for drugs. (Its a small town, so I can say this truthfully)
There are also more opportunities offered at the schools here, marine biology etc. That is what will shape her life. Not the spelling of her name.

Plus, the way we are going, employers are just going to have to get over their 'fuddy duddy' ways, or there'll be noone left to employ.

[sas85]

I agree Skye. Employers will have to get over it. But if they don't - would anybody really want to be in the employ of a such a prejudiced person who won't even interview a suited applicant based on their name's spelling, perceived oddness, or worse yet, ethnicity. I doubt anyone of ethnic background wants to work for a bigot anyway. I do not accept the sound or spelling of a name as being a legitimate preclusion reason and believe it violates the anti-discrimination act.

I don't know how many of you have been down to the local GP's or Emergency room lately, but I can't even read what most of the (granted mostly foreign) names of the Doctors are, and sure didn't seem to impact their professional careers.

Sounds like Denmark is a little bit extreme there Expat. But, Australian law does prevent totally ridiculous names/spellings from coming into existence. When you fill in the form for BD&M at the hospital, there is subtext giving you preclusions as to what you can't include in names (foreign letters, punctuation marks) and also a note of the government reserving the right to refuse a name that it perceives to be unacceptable for extreme reasons. So unlike America, I don't believe the government would allow anyone to name their child that really long Talulah-in-Hawaii name someone mentioned earlier, or the full names of famous Nazi's. But still, within reason, you have to let people have their rights, and if that means giving their kids names with silent M's and X's through it for no reason or odd names, well that's what makes us a diverse people. And if the kid really hates the spelling, he can just change it himself unofficially or officially. It's not a big deal.

[Anila]

but then think about some ppl dont like names coz their normal coz their boring

I think my name is really boring, i would have loved my parents to have called me Ophelia, but then if they had of, would i then complain that ,my name was way too out there?

[~ Mylitta ~]

My name doesn't have the "normal" spelling, but I love it. What I like about many names it the way they look when written down. My name might sound exactly the same as "Kristy" and "Christie", but I love they way "Krystie" looks. Although I always have to spell it out to people, I figure that I would have had to spell out the other variations too... I liked having my name spelt in a more unique way considering that there were 3 others with the same name in my year level at high school.

One of the reasons we named our son Kyson was because I love the way it looks. I also loved that it was unique without being odd (like some celeb's childrens names...), and I also like the nickname of Ky

Since he was born I've had a couple of people ask if his name was an abbreviation of "Krystie's Son", lol, but no, it's not

[briggsy's girl]

Originally Posted by LilMunchikins
BG how do you pronounce Nevaeh?

Neh-vay-ah : My friends DD has the same name I love it!

yup - that's how we pronounce it - have heard others say it differently but we pronounce it this way

i love the name, but i think the meaning sold me on it more than anything!

[New Dawn]

One of the reasons we named our son Kyson was because I love the way it looks. I also loved that it was unique without being odd (like some celeb's childrens names...), and I also like the nickname of Ky

Since he was born I've had a couple of people ask if his name was an abbreviation of "Krystie's Son", lol, but no, it's not

Kyson was the name I was going to have for Kailaia if she had been the boy we thought she she was going to be I had said to BHL that no matter if we had a boy or a girl I wanted Kai / Ky as the nic name....

Bon girl I think that would be me... I am afraid thats just coz a am a **** speller and couldnt for the life of me work out how to spell Mikayla but now that you have spelt in it make sence but I will still not know how to spell it tomorrow... but you name was just in reference to what Mayleaka ( my DD ) gets called as no-one knows how to say her name at first glance... for those who want to know it May - Lee - Ka just like its spelt


Ummmm now if only I can get UTD I can come up with not only a made up name but a name so out there no one will ever be able to spell it or for that matter say it....