Worst spelling of a name EVER

I visited a primary school a couple of years and there was a girl called Bobbi-Bubble. ? Apparently mum insisted that she was called that and not have it shortened to Bobbi

I'm a Kathryn but not surprisingly, this gets spelt in a hundred different ways, I'm forever spelling it out for people, no with a K, no E, with a Y etc etc.

I do know a chevaize, pronounced shevvy!

I think we have a winner......

Me too!!

In one class I taught a Casey (boy) & a Kaci (girl). As they were pronounced the same we had to refer to them as boy or girl casey!

I'm the same and not a Victoria, which people always assume. There were 3 vicky's in my class when I was at school but I was the only 'real' vicky as the others were victoria. My mum wanted to give me and my sister names that couldn't be shortened, however we did get names that rhyme with anything under the sun! sister is kelly

I was reading a magazine yesterday and there was some reader article about a lady who went to the gym to get fit, and her trainer was called Szymon. Which I assume is a silly spelling of Simon? Lol.

interesting ways to spell my name (i think)

Nikaela

Nikola

I have to say I was most amused a few years ago when I recieved a card to Genie. Who>?? Of the bl00dy lamp. My name's Jenny.

I know someone who named their girl Abcd (pronounced ab sid e)

, Now that is something.

My name is Laura, simple, but i've had Lara, Lora etc I think people expct names to be spelt weird these days

Probably a foreign name. My OH's name has an 's' sound in it but is spelt with an 'sz' because in his parents' language 's' is pronounced 'ssh', while 'sz' is pronounced 'sss'. I think their version of simon is spelt with an sz or else it would be pronounced 'Shimon' lol. OH gets really annoyed with people who pronounce the 'sz' like 'zzz' and people who skip the s in his name.

My favourite mispronunciation of a name (which I think I've mentioned before on here) is of a boy my aunt used to teach called Guy. His mum had read it in a book and thought it was a nice name but wasn't sure how to pronounce it. So the poor kid was stuck with being called 'gooey'.

My mum is called siobhan its so funny how some people say it and spell it xx

Same here, but I'm Catherine. I always say 'with a C' now.

This is my middle name and has foxed many people over the years; I have taken many a step to pre-warn people at things like graduation ceremonies and so on.

Your bafflement is normal but misplaced - why assume that you would apply English language rules to a non-English language? Even if it IS written in the same alphabet, which leads to......

In Gaelic, the "m" is pronounced as a "v" (same as the "b" in Siobhan - when you pronouce Siobhan correctly, obviously). This is just part of the language and no more strange that getting an "f" sound at the end of "cough" in English. In the original, this "m" (or "b") would be written with a dot above the letter and no "h" after it. However, the international push to standardise the alphabet has meant that the dot is lost and an "h" is added. The "h" is not a letter in Irish, it's an operation that tells you how to pronounce another letter. That's why there are so many "h"s.

And that's also why it's not "they" (by this you mean "the Irish"?) who get a "v" out of "mh", it's the rest of the world who made it so.

The best Irish name for bafflement though? Narbhflaith.

And the best name I've heard mispelt? Ruby, with two "b"s and an "ie". Yes, it's Rubbie.

The worst I've heard is spelt: La-A and pronounced as you would read it: La dash a.

Versace McClatchie, and his little sisters Gucci and Armani. I kid you not!!!

Have also heard of a Pocahontas.

Ah I love Glasgow!!!

A little boy at E's nursery is Danyaal. I presume this is a variation of Daniel!!

Hee hee reminds me of the headteacher on Glee talking about Kesha, or as he called her Ke dollar sign Ha

My friend has chosen a lovely name for her newborn boy but ruined it by spelling it wrong IMHO! Harry spelt Harrey! ?

I have a cousin who is a Henri. He isn't French, or a girl. No idea why they called him that. It's still pronounced exactly like "Henry".

My name is Arabic and therefore a) it is unusual in this country and b) there are many different variant spellings since, obviously, you can translate letters differently. I don't have the most common spelling of my name but it isn't a particularly unusual spelling either!

My auntie works in a school so sees lots of unusual spellings. Apparently once a colleague came in ranting about a parent naming their kid Rebecca... "but you'll never guess what stupid newfangled way they've spelt it, they've done it R-E-B-E-K-A-H!" My auntie had to tell her that it's a very common variant spelling, found in the Bible, and not something the kid's mum had made up!

When i read "ad sid de" in my head it sounds like "upsy d......" as in upsy daisy.

My name is Nia, which is a very common Welsh name, pronounced "knee-ah". When people see it written down, they most commonly call me "nigh-ah".

When I speak to non-welsh people on the phone and say my name, they always seem to turn it into something else - Lia, Mia, Nina. I've even had Katrina!

Well I have a little boy named Basil - just like the herb. It really bugs me when people spell it Bazil but bugs me even more when the Americans pronounce it Bay-zil !!!

I would have said 'like the Great Mouse Detective' ?

or Mr Fawlty hehe

Not forgetting Basil brush, give us a tickle - bombom! And I can do a cracking Sybil impersonation when he is in the dog house! ?

My name is Elenid a not so known welsh name but i always have to spell it to people over the phone and even then they still get it wrong i am not an eluned/glyn?! / eleni/elaine etc etc ... you say my name as elle/en/eed ..?

My mum was like that - she is Tina, but some of her teachers insisted on calling her Christina, thinking she was just being a brat...and I have some cousins with odd spellings of names - Ashleigh, Hollie, Aimee

Tracey

Oh and a friend has a son called Mungo...

Wow.

That's a new one on me!

I believe St Mungo is patron saint of Glasgow (or there's some Glasgow connection there anyway). It's not a common name even round here but not unheard of either. It does just make me think of Mungo Jerry though...

My OH is called Jay, quite a simple name, a bit more common now than it was when he was young, but it drives him MENTAL because whenever he says it people think he's just iving an initial. So every time he says it he has to say "Jay, thats J A Y"

I'm Nicole....weirdest spelling I've had was Nikol from my great uncle!!! Mind you he got it wrong every year Nichole, Nicolle, Nicol....the list goes on!

Weirdest names though wait for it they are crackers!

My Mum's extended family in Spain. They are English moved over there 20 odd years ago. One of the girls had a little girl last year and called her Enigma.....she's just had a little boy and called him Chaos (complete with that spelling!)