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I am a member of an online TTC forum, and someone else there wants to name her potential baby girl Kaelayigha Elizabeth or Yalaina Leighann. Are either of those "real" names?

I hope she has a boy because those choices are Ezra Lee and Gregory Douglas Jr.

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When your own family cannot spell your child's name...

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I am a friend of a friend with someone on Facebook who has a daughter named: D'Zhyyrae (prn like Desirae). But when you do a quick scroll down his page, or look at the pictures she is in on her grandma's or aunt's or cousins' pages... it is spelled:
D'zhyra
Dezyyrae
D'Ezrae
Dezerae
D'Zhyray

What are the odds this own kid won't be able to spell her name correctly? LOL!

But really... WHY? What is wrong with just "Desirae" or "Desiree"??

Bad spellings

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A previous post has set me thinking about bad spellings and if your parents saddled you with a badly spelt name, would you change it? I think that I most definitely would, but I wouldn't want to offend my parents; I guess it would depend how badly it was spelt and if you'd learnt to live with it as a kid. I know a Aleesha who has a PhD and I just think that even with Dr. in front of her name, it looks like a mess - I'd definitely change it. I also know a Keeliegh whose dad accidentally misspelled her name and she hasn't changed it because it's the name he gave her and she fiercely defends it.

My brother-in-law, David, decided a few years ago to spell his name Dayv. I thought that it was a phase, but he's 28 and still doing it. I can't bring myself to write it down so I address all his cards to David.