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.
“Heulyn” pronounced Hay-lynn.
I knew a guy so ghetto he got his first name as his Xbox Live Gamertag.
A kid whose name is said “Akelah” phonetically, but is spelled “Akleah”.
A girl in highschool whose name was Nazanine went by Nazi (Nah zee). Like, why? Your name was beautiful.
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.
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.
Wonder what his wife thinks of this pregnancy
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?
I had a customer once at an old job whose name was spelled Deborah. Seems completely normal until she got super mad at me for calling her “Debra” because I was somehow supposed to know her name was pronounced “Deb-Or-Ah”. With the “Or” being stressed.
Tell debdeb to calm down
La-A, it’s pronounced La-Dash-A
My mom taught nursing and La-A was one of her students, she said her mother had her at 15 after dropping out of highschool her freshman year and wanted a unique name for her.
Crazy to me that this is still going around. I remember hearing this myth back when I was in middle school almost 20 years ago.
Oh this is way older than 20 years old. My grandpa was telling this joke like 50 years ago. He also was a school teacher, I suspect it has been circulating through schools for the last 60+ years.
Did she say, “and the dash don’t be silent”?
Wait I also knew a La-a. Now I’m worried that there are multiple…
Brayden, Hayden, jayden, tayden, kayden, rayden, shayden, cayden, pretty much the whole alphabet ending in den. And yes I met every single one of these
None of those are bad. It’s when it’s when it’s like Breighleigh or stuff that it’s bad.
Breighden.
Welp found taydens mom
Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.
Full name, Toneigh Lynne Groan.
Ptoughneigh
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.
Does using French count? Then I nominate “eau”. Impressive 300% bloat, 0 correct letters.
Anferny.
Penny Hardaway was legit!
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.
Eighew! Ouarew?
Brayden, Braxton, Bentley, Aiden, Axel, Keith.
Ugh, no! Brayden is fine. Breighden is the problem.
Brayden is a problem. Breighden is a tragedeigh.
Treighgeighdeigh
You might dislike those names, but there nothing really wrong with their spellings.
What’s wrong with Axel?Axel is the normal spelling around here (Switzerland), so I’m interested what you would have expected instead? Aksel?
Maybe it’s Excel
