Worst spelling of a name EVER

I've seen some crackers as a teacher, one pupil had a celtic spelling of FIONNAUGHLA pronounced FINOOLA.

SHAWNEE is another one.....why they wanted to call their child that I'll never know.

I have a MIA and a MIA in once class and both are said differently, arrgghhhhh!

then theres the polish; KALEB is Jacob........

I went to school with an Alix - her name never bothered me but she was VERY annoying ?

I teach an alix, shes an adorable lil lass..

OH's lil sis is called Halesha, it was supposed to be Alicia but Daddy spelt it wrong when he registered her.

My friend has a little girl called Aimiee, or it could be Aimee, i'm not sure either way its not Amy.

I knew someone called sharlette, agree with teehee on the Mia thing, our friends have a daughter called Mia (Me-a) and theres a Mia (Mi-a) in maxs class,

I once worked with someone who I had been in email contact with called Siobhan, So when I wen to speak to her I obviously called her byt the normal pronunciation (said like chevonne) to be met with glares from her team and some one whispering to me ' its pronounced si-ob-han!!' i can only guess her parents saw it written and didnt know the pronunciation and thought, how unusual!!! hehe obviously it was a bit of a sore point for her

People spell my name wrong all the time!!!!!!

I dont think FIONA is that hard to spell but appaarently it is.......I get Feyona , Fiyona, Fionna, Feeyona all the time........and dont get my started on my last name!! How hard is it to spell PAGE?!?

That is crazy, it's not like Fiona is an unusual name or anything!!!

LOL at the Si-ob-han, that's really made me chuckle, What a pain for her.

My name is always spelt wrong too. And im always getting called Fiona which gets right on my t!ts. lol.

you'd think woudlnt you lol

Kayleigh (Kay-lee) - always spelt wrong!!

ETA: This is my name, so my parents are to blame!!

I once had my name spelt Raychelle by a dental nurse. Really??

There are some complete bumpers on here:

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files2/stats/popular-forenames/babiesnames2010-table4.xls

Some of the guys i have to speak to on the phone daily called me Lousy instead of Louise! Getting fed up spelling my name every time!

Not quite bad spelling but bad pronunciation. At lady at our other office had a baby girl last year and of course we all asked what they were going to call her. She replied the baby's name will be Dello-rays (I've spelt it phonetically for you). We where a bit surprised but said "how lovely" (you can't turn around to a new mother and say, no that's crap, what were you smoking when you came up with that, can you?)

Some time later little envelopes appeared on people's desks inviting them to little Dolores' christening.

Ive always wondered how they got the name "Neve" out of NIAMH?! baffles me to this day ?

A family friend's daughter is named 'Tayla.' I love the name 'Taylor' for a girl but I just cringe at that spelling!

I'm a Stacey and always get Stacie or Stacy. Just don't think it looks right any other way!

I'm called Lisa, very common name, nothing fancy, nothing unexpected but the amount of people that ask me if that's spelt with a z is just baffling.

There's someone at work called Katherynne - yet another version of that spelling.

The mind boggles sometimes, I'm dreading getting my new surname and having to constantly spell that out already, it must be a right pain to constantly have to spell your first name too!

I'd never spell Notts Lass like that.........

I think the guy in the Young Ones was spelt Vyvyan, so maybe they got it from there ?

A cracking one from Chat magazine was Mikul - they weren't Polish or Russian or anything, just a normal family from Hull or somewhere. It just look so naff (sorry to anyone whose version of Michael is spelt this way!)

I have a niece called Tayla, if i'd have had a girl i would have loved to call her sydney

Did you spot how many more girls names there are than boys?

Are some parents more random with naming females compared to males?

Mr C is Riki... same scenario!!!

<showing my age>

Can anyone remember the twins from Neighbours - Caroline and Christina Alessi (they were about frmo 1990)? They're real names are Gayle and Gillian Blakeney. However, Gillian is pronounced GIL-E-AN...

The things you remember!!

I remember them , one of them married Paul Robinson! I didnt know that was how you pronounced her name IRL tho, the things you learn!

There was also that Ua statesman (ex army) Colin Powell....first name was pronounced like the name of Wayne Rooneys wife!!!!! Its Colin....

I have the same as you, except my name is Vicki, also I'm not a Victoria as a lot of people seem to think.

My mum's name is Gail (honest reason, it was really windy when she was born, gotta love my granddad's sense of humour!!) and apparently when she went to school she was on their records as Abigail. Her sister Mandy was down as Amanda.

My ex once got a new bank card and the bank had decided to give him a middle name lol he had to take his birth certificate in to prove he didn't have one

People get my name wrong all the time - it's Jaimie, not Jamie, or Jaime or Jamey!!!! I do get called Janie as well sometimes, often I don't have the heart to say anything but there are odd occasions where I have to tell them that it's Jaimie as in "the boys name!". Most of the people I work with can't spell my name which really grates on me as it's in my email address and signature for goodness sake!!!!

My nephew is Jaime... my sister tells me it is the Portuguese spelling... which is fine if you are in Portugal!

My ex's Mum was called Cheyrl because her Dad was drunk when he registered the birth and got the letters muddled!

The spelling of my name has driven me mad for my entire life (thanks Mum!). I'm a Kati.

Usual conversations with people go:

'what's your name?'

'Kati'

'is that with an IE?'

'er no'

'Oh sorry is it with a Y?'

'er no'

*blank look and silence*

People in my family still put an E on the end, and at work I get emails and letters with an E on the end even though my name is on what I sent them in the first place, they must think I mis-spelt it!!

Im a Vicky. Not a Vicki/Vikki/Vickie/Vicci or any other spelling. Bog standard.

My brother is called Steven, and my Mum used to get so annoyed as one of my Aunties spells it "Stephen" on ALL his birthday/christmas presents