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[turtle-dove-1.livejournal.com]

 How many times do you think a kid is named after a typo? Like the parent was typing the name and hit the wrong key and decided it looked good. 
Also, i must admit that when i was in 8th grade, i wanted to name my first daughter Julianna. Except i wanted to spell it Jueleyannah. Sick. What was i smoking? I think the whole name was "Jueleyannah Karolinne" and the other was "Keli (or Kelliey) Lucille." Glad i'm off that kick.
Also in the 8th grade, my friend and i made up whole new names for ourselves. We already had the same middle name (Diana) and wanted to keep our first names. Here's what we came up with
Rachel Maray Chasity Abigail Heidi Noelle Diana. I spelled my first name "Raychelle"
Jessica Hayley Callie Christine Tessa Rei (Ray) Diana. She spelled her first name Jessyca.
I am glad we didn't have kids then. Ew.

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[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I have friends named Mathew with one t, Maxx with two x's, and Robb (not Robert) with two b's, all because their parents' either saw the names misspelled (I'm guessing typewriter-typos, since this was the 80s, haha) or misspelled them that way on their own (as was the case with Mat). I like Mat with one t, but the other two are weird to me.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I know a Maxx.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I knew someone in grade school who was Mathew with one t as well. Not sure why one t and not two, though. Maybe his parents just liked it better.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

In elementary school I fell in love with the name Roxanne and wanted to use it for a daughter. Not a horrible name, but I don't really care for it not.

When I was in 8th grade, it was 'in' with this group of girls I knew to go by our middle names, so I went by Catherine with them.


In high-school a couple of my friends and I gave ourselves 'prostitute names'. My friend Shannon was 'Chastity', I was 'Bambi', and I can't recall what the other was.


I've never fallen in love with a typo, but I did fall in love with a name that I pulled out of my butt when I was teasing another poster about new age names.

[devofriends.livejournal.com]

Chastity is a prostitute name? Am I missing something? lol

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

We were in highschool. ;) She thought it sounded prostituty.. they were more bimbette names, I guess. She was a very churchy girl.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I think one time I was trying to type "Allison" but I spelled it "Allyson" and I realized that I like it that way so much better! It's the only name I like better spelled the nontraditional way.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Oh, and in 8th grade, two of my friends and I came up with random nicknames for ourselves that were completely different from our actual names: Zoe, Ronnie, and Allie as nicknames for Karlie, Sara, and Robin, respectively.

When I was in elementary school, I wanted so badly to change my name to Amelia Nicole, and now I can't stand either of those names.

[oni85.livejournal.com]

i wanted to name my children after my best friend and justin timberlake... and I was going to have a girl/boy twin set to do that lol

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

As long as your best friend's name wasn't Britney....

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Oprah Winfrey supposed to be called Orpah? I believe I read that somewhere once. I like Oprah better, but that's probably also because I'm used to that now ;)

[turtle-dove-1.livejournal.com]

yeah, Orpah is the name of a city in Petra (I think...), near Isral/Palestine/Jordan, etc.

[jordle.livejournal.com]

Wow. Jueleyannah. That's a spelling and a half. Its funny because I would read that as Ju-lay-anna because of my last name I read Ley as Lay. Weird!

I used to always spell my name differently. I'm Jordan Jane but I went through a stage where it was Jordyn Jayne, or Jordan Jayne, or Jordyn Jane. God knows why!

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

Heh, don't worry. When I was in middle school, I wanted to name my first daughters Lauryn and Lyndsie. I think it's a phase or something, it's just that some people never grow out of it. :/

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

When I was in ninth grade my friends and I all changed our names. I was Mika, lol.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

My university dorm RA had the middle name "Antoniette" — and it was pronounced the same as the legitimate "Antoinette". I once tried to casually ask whether it was an unintentional misspelling, but she seemed totally oblivious to a possible problem or misspelling, or that the spelling her mother gave her might probably be pronounced "An-toe-nee-ett" instead of "An-twa-nett".

[mosscollection.livejournal.com]

I've seen this same misspelling when I was working at a pizza place. When doing carryout I had to ask people's names to put on the orders. She told me her name was Antoinette, but it was spelled all janky and should have been pronounced Ann-tony-ette.

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

I remember liking the name/spelling Erykah at one point. That was probably around 8th grade.

In middle school I used to "troll" chatrooms using made up names.
Some of them included:
Bekei (prn Becky -- said my first name was Rebekah)
Vada
Skylah
Lydie
Pari

There were a lot more, but I can't remember them all. Oh, the things we do when we're teenagers.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Vada? Like, as in Sultenfuss?

Oddly enough, I kind of like that name. I don't know that I'd ever use it...but I like it.

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

Not quite the same but i have a friend Alison, and it's spelled with one L as a typo (even though it's an accepted spelling)

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

I once knew a Stephne. Apparently, her parents thought they were having a boy and her dad was filling out the birth certificate with the name "Stephen", he had gotten as far as the Steph when he found out she was a girl, so he just slapped on the -ne at the end. Why he didn't slap on -anie, I don't know.

[mosscollection.livejournal.com]

I worked with a guy named Lorenzo but it was spelled Lorinso. He actually admitted to me that his mom misspelled it because she was illiterate. I thought that was pretty sad. When he wrote it out on anything that wasn't a gov't document, he spelled it Lorenzo.

My mom named my 2 year old sister Myra Angelique. I hate that middle name btw. But anywho, my mother has never learned French, and she thought she knew how to use accents. She put the accent agu on the last E instead of the first on the birth cert. So technically it should be pronounced Ann-jel-leek-ay according to her actually birth cert. When I told my mom this she was so mad at herself. I thought it was funny because the reason I never liked Angelique in the first place is that I thought it sounded ghetto, but with the accent in the wrong place, it is way more ghetto. haha

And as for weird childhood naming games. In most of elementary school my friends and I went by a pronunciation of our initials. They were GAB and KAM (gabby and kammy respectively) and I was blessed with three consonant names, so I was JMW (pronounced ja-mm-wuh). I was always quite jealous of their vowels. In 6th grade my friends and I went by our names backwards, so mine was Enimsaj. And for a lot of my childhood I hated my name, Jasmine, because it had the word "men" in it so I thought it sounded manly. And then Aladdin came out and the torture never ended.