DL Cast Member told me my sons name is weird

[daisax]

I can't believe I almost named my dd Kathryn

That's been my name for 44 years It's never been an issue. The bigger annoyance is having people ask "C" or "K" all the time -- frankly, as far as phone messages go, it doesn't matter! I'd advise the OP's son to not get particularly attached to his particular spelling. Yes, he should insist on it among friends, professionally, and on important paperwork. But he's going to have a very long, very aggravated life if he takes personal offense each time his name is spelled "James."

my name is Beth-NOT-Elizabeth and you cannot believe how many people thnk I am lying

Same thing happened to my best friend growing up -- her name is Beth, not Elizabeth, and in grade school her mother would have to send a note each school year because more than once teachers would belittle her for not knowing her "real" name.

 

[sweetandsassyfl]

My boyfriend's name is Jody.....he absolutely hates the fact that some people think he's a girl when they hear his name (including me, the first time I heard it....oops) and one time he won MVP for his team in the darts league and his plaque had a picture of a woman playing darts on it (they had pictures of women for the women who won MVP and men for the men who won MVP.) It gets on my nerves when someone is asking me something in an email or text message about him and they spell it Jodie.....I don't know many men that end their name with an "ie" spelling.

 

[hentob]

My boyfriend's name is Jody....

I always loved the name Jody for a boy. But then again, I loved Family Affair

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

My mom's name is Kathryn and I believe that is a Greek spelling of the name. I know that, at least with a certain set of people, it was very popular at one time. We went to a fairly large church growing up and for at least a decade or so, there were at least 20 other women named Katherine/Katharyn/Katharin/whatever. All of them went by "Kathy" or "Kat" and if you yelled "KATHY!" at least 1/3rd of the female members of the congregation would turn around.

 

[In a hurry]

Good for you! Dont even check this thread anymore, now you have some bored old biddies with nothing better to do than to openly trash your choice in a name. Narrow minded. Rude. Tacky. Everyone is brave (oris that ig mouthed) behind a user name.

Kind of like popping in for your 16th post to call people names.

I hate the odd spellings. As a teacher, it is a PITA.

 

[sha_lyn]

If my friend Kathryn was correct, it is german in origin.
Did find this
http://www.baby-girl-names.org/k/kathryn.htm
over the last 125 yrs Kathryn is ranks in the top 107 names, usually coming in somewhere in the 50-65 range

ETA: yep you were right. It is greek
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/search.php?p=qsearch&s_gender=1&s_copt=2&i_search=kathryn

 

[KelNottAt]

Question for the OP - Just curious, why that spelling? Family tradition? Trying to be different?

BTW, I'm Kelley. 9 times out 10 I'm misspelled. y, ie, ee, even eigh. I just go with the flow and shake it off.

 

[lovepurple]

My SIL named all three of her kids by putting a "y" where there would traditionally be an "i". I don't get it but that's her thing. She isn't surprised though that people assume the spelling is different. Her name is spelled with an "i" where the "y" would normally be, so maybe that has something to do with the way she chose to spell the kid's names.

 

[Tiggernut_jadie]

I've spent 54 years with an unusual name. Cordia. It is pronounced Core-de-a. Short a. Accent on the first syllable. Can you imagine that 90% of people mess it up. Do I get upset? No. The only time I was hurt was when a lady went, "Ewwww". That hurt. Even worse is my middle name, Lovell. Blech, I hate that one. Sorry for any Lovell's out there but I do. My mom named me after a friend and her daughter. I have run into 1 other Cordia in my whole life as a nurse. She lived in WVa. I did have one lovely little black lady patient who's sister shared my name. She was also named something unusual but that was 30 years ago and I have forgotten it.

You can certainly name you child anything you wish but it will always be a topic of conversation, a problem on legal documents and sometimes hated by your child. My DH's legal name is Tim. Not Timothy. He was whacked by his teachers in elementary school for refusing to write Timothy. . I can't beging to tell you how many times we have had to have purchase agreements, wills, checks, etc rewritten to correct his name to Tim.

My DH refused to use cute/differently spelled names so we have a Michael and a Benjamin.

Yep DH is tony, not anthony. Worse yet is he has no middle name, and our last name could be a first/middle name.
Poor DS I didn't even think when we named him after FIL & my grandfather that his first name and middle names can both be last names

Yes I can so relate to bothof these men...my name is Beth-NOT-Elizabeth and you cannot believe how many people thnk I am lying like why would I? Or just assume it's Elizabeth and start filling things out using that. And my mom did it because I had a really long maiden name and she thought she was doing me a favor

Yep another one here who spent her school life being told to put my 'proper' name. I'm Jacqui...just Jacqui...spelt that way...not Jacqueline, not Jackie or Jacky or whatever else....just Jacqui.

My mother actually took my birthcertificate in to show one bolshy teacher who refused to mark one of my papers because I hadn't put my 'proper' name on it!

 

[daisax]

My mom's name is Kathryn and I believe that is a Greek spelling of the name.

The name is Greek in origin, but Kathryn is the Scottish variation. In Greek it's spelled... in Greek!

 

[cemsanchez]

The bigger annoyance is having people ask "C" or "K" all the time -- frankly, as far as phone messages go, it doesn't matter!

I can totally relate my name is Catherine. I was having a conversation with a woman once and we were discussing names and she informed me Catherine was her neices name she the proceeded to inform me that I was pronouncing my name incorrectly that the "I" should be pronouced with the long sound exactly the way it is spelled. I thought it was funny .

 

[FayeW]

Me! And it a very cool name. He loves it.

Your "very cool" is somebody else's "stupid". It is really irrelevant what anybody thinks about it except you, your son, and his father.

Our son's name is Morgan. It's a boy's name that has been more commonly used as a girl's name for the last couple of decades, but it is still a boy's name. It wasn't the name I chose for him, but my husband new a couple of male "Morgans" and really liked the name. I was overruled. I am not losing any sleep over whether somebody thinks it is a stupid name, and I don't get upset if I have to correct people who think Morgan is my daughter's name, not my son's. When you do something unusual with your kid's name that's the risk you take.

OP, you are being entirely too sensitive about an imagined slight.