Unusual spelling of names?

[tinkerbellandeeyor]

It is weird the only people I know with my name are in my age bracket

 

[nanajoyx2]

My daughter-in-law's legal name is Shelia. Her mother did not spell it that way, and she always spelled it Sheila until she got her birth certificate for her driver's license. We usually spell it Sheila unless I am ordering a plane ticket for her. It has to match her license. Whoever filled out the birth certificate at the hospital or recorded it at city hall made the mistake. Her mother never noticed the mistake.

 

[firecracker725]

At least it isn't Brittknee..I had a person at Sonic wait on me and that was the spelling on her name tag.

I can understand some variations and some of them stem from the origin of the name. Some names are known for having a certain amount of variation in regards to spelling...I know for example there is Brendan, Brenden, Brendon or Catherine vs Katherine or Sara vs Sarah..I am thinking of the more out there ones like Sara/Sarah being "Suharah" or something like that.

Katherine has a gazillion accepted spellings. My oldest's middle name is Kathryn.

 

[Pikester]

Steffani

I have seen Stephanie and Stefanie but never Steffani before

I'm a Stefanee.

 

[disneycrazi]

I'm a Stefanee.

Lucky!!!! I got the boring Stephanie....

 

[torinsmom]

My son's name is Torin and at the doctor's office or anywhere there is paperwork, he usually says Torin, T-O-R-I-N, LOL. He has been called Tori, Torrence, Toreen, etc. I think it's pretty phonetic and it's not a made up name, just not as common in the states.

I don't have any unusual names in my class this year. The closest would be Ilsa, which I believe is German.

 

[Coconut36]

Katherine has a gazillion accepted spellings. My oldest's middle name is Kathryn.

Yep..I just picked the top two variations.

 

[PigletsPal2]

Our last name is French, so we wanted French names for our DDs. DD#1's first name is the French derivative of my first name, and DD#2's middle name is Mireille, pronounced Meer-RAY, although her grandfather said it was Mir-REL-y. She said she was nine years old before she remembered how to spell it.

Queen Colleen

 

[Pikester]

Lucky!!!! I got the boring Stephanie....

I have to spell my name for everyone all the time. "My name is Stefanee but let me spell it for you....." Totally stunk when I was a kid as I could never find anything with my name spelling on it. No license plate for my huffy.

 

[Southernmiss]

2 years ago, my 90 year old grandmother wanted me to help her get her birth certificate corrected.

In the 1970s she had her brother request her birth certificate for her that she had never had. (Their mother had died when my grandmother was 9 years old and their father died in the 1960s.) On the birth certificate it had a middle name that she never knew and it was probably misspelled!

When the dr. had filed her birth record with the state 90 years earlier, his handwriting was illegible and the official name picked up was weird. My grandmother never even knew that name as she always went by her baptismal name as a middle name.

I am a genealogy buff and think the middle name should have been her grandmother's name. A common name at the time.

Here's the kicker. To change the name, the state wanted a statement from the doctor, her parent's, or someone who knew her from birth!! She's 90 years old--there's no one left!! So finally with some of her legal documents marriage license, baptismal certificate and a notarized statement the state changed her official middle name to the one she went by all those years.

 

[Erin1700]

My great niece is Rachael, and I could never find anything like this for her either. They all said Rachel.

That is true. My DD is a Rachael.

 

[phorsenuf]

2 years ago, my 90 year old grandmother wanted me to help her get her birth certificate corrected.

In the 1970s she had her brother request her birth certificate for her that she had never had. (Their mother had died when my grandmother was 9 years old and their father died in the 1960s.) On the birth certificate it had a middle name that she never knew and it was probably misspelled!

When the dr. had filed her birth record with the state 90 years earlier, his handwriting was illegible and the official name picked up was weird. My grandmother never even knew that name as she always went by her baptismal name as a middle name.

I am a genealogy buff and think the middle name should have been her grandmother's name. A common name at the time.

Here's the kicker. To change the name, the state wanted a statement from the doctor, her parent's, or someone who knew her from birth!! She's 90 years old--there's no one left!! So finally with some of her legal documents marriage license, baptismal certificate and a notarized statement the state changed her official middle name to the one she went by all those years.

I have been doing some Genealogy myself and my legal name is Cathy. Not Catherine, not Kathleen, but just Cathy. Imagine my surprise when I found a birth certificate that had all my info, but with the name Katherine. I asked my dad about it and he had no clue. But for whatever reason one was filed. One of these days, I'm going to see if I can get a copy of it.

When I was in high school I went to an all girls Catholic school and the nuns insisted you go by your Christian name. They didn't believe me that my Christian name was just Cathy. My mom had to bring in my birth certificate to prove it.

 

[emer95]

I walked into the 3rd grade class next to mine and saw "Autum" written on a name tag. I said to the teacher (my friend) "Oh, you misspelled this girl's name." She raised her eyebrows at me and said, "No, her parents misspelled her name." I know it isn't as crazy as some of the cre8tive spellings out there, but it irks me to no end. Every time I see her name, I am dying to write an "n" on the end.

I was walking by a locker today and saw the name, "Kharisma." Can you imagine that poor child introducing herself?

 

[2girls4me]

I know a Kaitlin so didn't know that was an unusual spelling.

DD is named SARAH. Not unusual but as a child when she was asked her name, her response was "Sarah with an H."

I'm a Sarah and I do the same thing.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I still think the name Kirsten looks like a typo.

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

chassidee I pronunced it chass a dee its Ca see dee! Naquain Naqueeien prounded na quain, Naquevee is na quava, Naqueda is na quad a are 3 more really odd ones Ive seen recently

 

[ohiomom28]

My name is Kari...I usually say Carrie with a K.
Surprisingly, a lot of people spell it right 1st time without me telling them 1st

My niece's name is Gracie and we can't find anything with her name on it either...its a pretty common name but all we can find is Grace

 

[Coconut36]

I have been doing some Genealogy myself and my legal name is Cathy. Not Catherine, not Kathleen, but just Cathy. Imagine my surprise when I found a birth certificate that had all my info, but with the name Katherine. I asked my dad about it and he had no clue. But for whatever reason one was filed. One of these days, I'm going to see if I can get a copy of it.

When I was in high school I went to an all girls Catholic school and the nuns insisted you go by your Christian name. They didn't believe me that my Christian name was just Cathy. My mom had to bring in my birth certificate to prove it.

You said you want to get a copy of the birth certificate..did you find it online doing a genealogy search and you know for certain it is you? How interesting is that! I wonder if your Mom decided to amend your birth certificate later in life to give you a "full" name of Katherine later on?

 

[minkydog]

chassidee I pronunced it chass a dee its Ca see dee! Naquain Naqueeien prounded na quain, Naquevee is na quava, Naqueda is na quad a are 3 more really odd ones Ive seen recently

I have her twin sister Chasiti over here. CHASS-it-tee.

I got a new student yesterday: Jesh'iai'ah--jesh-EYE-ah. I kid you not, 2 apostrophes. And he's in special ed. I hope he can learn to spell his name.

It almost makes our girls, Passion and Desstinnee, look normal.

 

[Shyvioletisme]

I know a Kaitlin so didn't know that was an unusual spelling.

DD is named SARAH. Not unusual but as a child when she was asked her name, her response was "Sarah with an H."

My husband used to work with 2 Sarahs. One with an H and one without. The one without was always referred to as Sara no H.