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.
“Shithead”
Pronounced: shi-THEED
Spelled: Shit Head
Brayden, Braxton, Bentley, Aiden, Axel, Keith.
Keighty / Keeeeeeee
I used to know an Alyssa whose name was pronounced like Alicia. Her parents went let’s give her one name but spell it just like another name.
Tree Grill. Real dude. Wacky parents.
Jesus
Not a baby name but I worked with a devops engineer who had dyslexia so all of our IaC variable names had misspellings in them. We just lived with it because it would have been expensive to teardown the resources and reprovision them with the correct spellings.
kayleigh and stuff like that is pretty common where I’m from.
Have you run into a Teancum?
For those that are not up on your mormonisms, it’s pronounced:
Tea-an-cum
An it’s a boy’s name.
Morridor is the funniest name I’ve ever heard of for the Wasatch front (shot in the dark)
But which one is cuter: Kayleigh or Kaylee?
Kaylee, and it is readable using only English grammar rules (the -eigh uses rules from a different language like Sean does)
I knew of an African-American named Le-a.
Not spoken as “ley-ah”, but as “ledasha”.
Because you are supposed to say the dash.
I appreciate you posting the snopes. I am more bothered than I probably should be when someone claims this is real and if OP is willing to lie about something so mundane then none of their posts should be believed.
I too have been to the internet.
I once met a girl called “Xinhergi” (Synergy).
I haven’t met any one with a terribly spelt name but one girl I worked with was named America. Weird as hell if you ask me
There was a player on Big Brother named America, which was a tiny bit confusing because the show routinely refers to the audience as America
I know a Paris, a Virginia, and a Georgia, just off the top of my head. Location names are weird, but not unheard of.
Many people are named after places. This one doesn’t feel weird to me atleast
Yup, I’ve known a Kenya, a Lesotho, and a Latierra (the Earth in Spanish).
I also had a coworker named America and I’m pretty sure her parents were immigrants - English was pretty clearly not my coworker’s first language. I think it works for her situation. (Funny enough, it was her reckless behavior that caused me to spend my last few weeks at that job on light duty…)
There’s also America Ferrera, I don’t think the name is that weird.
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.
Hopefully she didn’t become a prostitute
Literally the “why did mum name me Rose” meme.
Dollarina Cappocino
Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.
Yeah that dude is obsessed with x. He slaps it everywhere he can
There are a lot of reasons why musk should be (and soon enough will be) jailed, this is one of them. This is child abuse, literally
What makes you so confident?
That is like a grandma reading a hash out loud
…what kinda hash?
Hashashin, get stabbed loser.
Brownie
LaQuisha. I think there was an apostrophe or two thrown in there but I don’t recall where or even the spelling exactly at that was ~26 years ago in highschool. I just recall the LaQ… There were several that I do not recall specifically ATM that seemed like their folks were trying to find the most unrelated syllables to link into a name. It was funny to me. It was a school in Tennessee designed for Uni prep that was supposed to uplift people in the surrounding poorer black community. There were several black students that acted like they always had a chip on their shoulder (aggravated, just looking for any excuse to argue or fight). These are the kids that typically had the most odd names. It was funny because I viewed them like the inverse of typical white trailer trash also present in the area but not at that school. The rednecks seemed to name all their kids some indecisive hyphenated name like Mary-Ann or Betty-Sue while the equivalently backwards black families went with stuff like Keishfonda and Quinmothy. Like y’all are doing the same thing thinking you’re different.
I think the weird-ass names are an attempt not for the parents to be different, but a generally severely misguided desire for their kids to appear different in a “Wowee, that’s special” kinda way. Everyone else has a ‘normal’ name. But not my kid; my child is so different and special and s/he’s going places, s/he’s gonna get out of here & do important things or be a famous athlete.
As we know, oftentimes that’s simply not the case…and it’s just a nightmare for the rest of us (and that child) to spell, say, etc. I find it incredibly frustrating, even though I know this wasn’t their choice, but their parents’. If their last name is weird shit, I politely ask for the first name. If the first name is also weird shit, I politely make a best guess phonetic whatever & move on.
Fun fact, it’s not exactly ghetto made-up name territory, but Oprah Winfrey…isn’t Oprah. Her given name is Orpah, named after a biblical figure in the book of Ruth. Very obscure, ancient name! Nobody knew how to spell or pronounce it properly, and they started calling her Oprah instead. 🙂 Now…we’ve got Oprah.
I’ve encountered a lot of the reverse of this. Danielle pronounced “Dah Nell”. Brittany pronounced “Brih Tanny”. Jonathan pronounced “Joe Nathan”.
Jonathan pronounced “Joe Nathan”
I would call that fucker Jonah-T-Han purely out of spite.
