“Breighdone” (Brayden) is probably the most egregious one I haven’t brain-bleached yet.
My friend works in the billing department of a local hospital, and she will occasionally text me some crazy spellings she comes across.
Never knew anyone with a weird spelling but I knew a dude who had the unfortunate name of Harry Butt. Already bad enough your family name is “Butt” but his parents did him hella dirty naming him Harry.
Was always funny getting a sub thinking he was just fucking with them tho.
Butt is actually a common Kashmiri last name. If he was from India/ Pakistan that night make sense
There’s a girl in my kid’s class named Eighmee. Pronounced “Amy”. I thought it was weird but there’s a street in a neighboring town named Eighmee Street.
Tragedeigh
Kommie-dagh
The solution is to put all of the uniqueness in the middle name. Then you still get to feel “special” while not forcing your kid to go by “tragedeigh” or whatever.
When I chose my name - I made my first as milquetoast and appropriate to my age as possible. My middle I went balls out - I guarantee I have a cooler middle name than you do.
Middle name is not a thing where I live. People can have 1 or more given names (I know of people that have 9), but none of these are considered ‘middle name’.
Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.
Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.
That is like a grandma reading a hash out loud
Anferny.
Can we just start using cosmic horror entity names already? Reighfyl is definitely something I could see being some sort of Lovecraftian alien
Think they’ll name their next daughter Cheaughtgeughn?
Forgive me… is that supposed to be shotgun?
Yeah, at maximum Feloneigh spelling.
It hurt to read, well done
I named my son Jaxin because my wife wanted Jax and I didn’t want my son to have a dog’s name.
I regret not just naming him Jackson because nobody in Taiwan knows how to pronounce Jaxin.
Sorry, you are not legally permitted to name your son Jackson unless you carry the name Jack yourself.
Hate to pile on, but could have done Jackson and then called him Jax for short just as easily. Hell Dick is short for Richard, short names don’t have to be spelled the same.
I would like to provide a counterexample. There are plenty of these people in the US intermountain west, but there are at least some cases where there is no one at fault. Next time you see one of these names without context (though we clearly have the context in this case), before judging, consider Nariaw:
I am a teacher, and one year I found that my roster included a student named “Nariaw”. As a public school, we register your student based on what’s on the birth certificate. I ask all of my students to pronounce their names for me when I first meet them, for the reason we see in so many of the replies here and with shit like “abcde”. However, when this girl came to my class, she said her name was pronounced “Miriam”. I spent a good twenty seconds looking at my roster, and had to ask her to spell it for me. I didn’t ask any rude and impertinent questions at that point, so it wasn’t until a few months later that I got the full story:
Her mother, an immigrant from Ethiopia, was still unfamiliar with Latin script when her daughter was born here in the US. So when she attempted to write out the name, which she wanted to transliterate as “Mariam”, she ended up writing only half of the first M, and wrote the second one upside-down. Whoever did the data entry for the government records dutifully recorded the child’s name as “Nariaw”. Was the mother at fault for being expected to write a name which, while she knew how to represent it in Amharic, she was forced to write in a language in which she was illiterate?
That’s super frustrating. The hospital should have easily been able to get someone who had at least a basic grasp of a common language to help ensure they understood the forms and got them filled out correctly.
The fault is 100% with the hospital.
I would argue that at least 15% of the blame lies with the racist expectation in the US that all names need be anglicized, when we have fucking Unicode. If someone whose second language is English can be expected to be able to pronounce “Rayleigh Monaghan McTavish”, then the least that the anglophone people of the US could do is learn to pronounce things in a few other common languages. There is, quite simply, no excuse for the government of the united States, in which there is no official language (even though a traitor, invalidated by the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, had some fuckwit draft a document trying to declare it without congressional approval), to mandate the use of a single language.
Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.
X Æ A-Xii . I could not resist. I apologize.
Apology not necessary.
The guiness book of records had an entry for the worst spelling in the old days before the book was dumbed down. Trying to spell ‘usage’ the incorrect attempt was youzitch achieving only one correct letter.
Not so much the spelling, just… I went to school with a girl who’s father fled the law and they ended up near us in Canada… they were originally from a trailer park in Tennessee
Her name was “Dollarina”
That name is a trajideh.
