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After a lot of posts about creative names and spellings and such...

Do YOU have a creative name? Do you know someone who does? How does she/he deal with it?

The only one I can think of is a kid I work with. He goes by Jeff; that's the spelling he has on his name tag, the spelling he uses on Facebook.. the spelling I would assume he had if I hadn't seen the legal version written on the schedule: Jephthe. Oy.

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[cielamara.livejournal.com]

Jephthe is an old Biblical name. It's the name of a man who promises to sacrifice the first member of his household if he wins a battle...the first person he sees is his only child, a daughter. There's a stunning but not-well-known oratorio about it. (And really, the only reason I know about it.)

[harri-cady.livejournal.com]

My name: Cady (rhymes with lady). It's my grandmother's maiden name. I get called Caddy, Cody, Candy, etc. all the time. It's frustrating, but I love that my name isn't plain old Katie, and that it has family significance.

I'm a teacher, so I've seen some names in my time. :) The most creative was Ky-Jaya. I tried to type out how to pronounce it and I can't even figure out what letters to use for the J sound. :/

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

Nope, not really.

I mean, my best friend in high school was named Russell. That was a bit odd for him because it's mostly a last name, especially with that spelling, but that's about it.

I did meet a lady with the name Paralee, though. I asked her out to pronouce it and she said "Para-Lee, like, a Pair A Levi's." I've never heard or see the name since.

I can say I feel sorry with those with unusual spelling, though. My name is Savanah. I have to spell it out to EVERYONE. And EVERYONE gets it wrong. It's either because there is only one N or because there is an H at the end. I think my husband was the only person to write it out right the first time...that made me so happy, LOL. But other than him, everyone messes it up. Some people have even tried to spell it with a B instead of a V. It's quite annoying that my name is so complicated for people and I've gotten pretty used to getting mail from companies, etc with my name misspelled. It was especially hard until my late teens because the name just wasn't used. I used to hate my name because it was "Weird" and in the 90's, it was. I never met anyone with that name, until I hit my teens and parents would be yelling at or talking to their kids in stores, and these little 3 year olds had my name...I couldn't figure out why the lady was yelling at me! Still, I've only heard it a handful of times, and only once on a girl around my age.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I got your name right before I saw the lady part. Doesn't seem that hard! But I find it funny that, I'm guessing, someone just figured it was misspelled and called you candy.

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

How did you feel when Mean Girls game out? I'm sure there are 100x more Cadys in the world now. Or, at least, Cadence nn Cady.

[harri-cady.livejournal.com]

That one's the worst. It just sounds like a stripper name to me! (no offense if someone is actually named Candy here...).

The funniest incident was when I arrived at summer lacross camp, and they had taken it for "Cody," AND somehow figured I'd checked the wrong gender box, because I was placed in the boys' dorm. Ugh!

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

Russell is a completely normal name! I'm not even sure how else you could spell that1

[harri-cady.livejournal.com]

I still haven't even seen it, though I meant to, as I love Tina Fey and hey, it has my name! :) I felt good about it, actually, because I thought it might make it more common and therefore people would have less trouble with it.

And yes, I think there were a lot of Cadences nn Cady, but I haven't met one yet. Maybe they are all still little girls just entering kingergarten now. :)

[harri-cady.livejournal.com]

WTF are people thinking with a B? Ha! :)

I have seen Savannah, but never before Savanah. Neat! What's the original spelling, do you know?

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

That's kind of even more stupid, LOL. Yes, you must have misspelled your name AND checked the wrong gender box. I wouldn't want that person overseeing the kids were that the case, lol.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

It was his experience, not mine, but he disliked it because he'd only ever heard of it as a surname. I guess it can be spelled Russel. Like, Russell is more a surname and Russel is more the first name. Might have just been the area he grew up in, though, you never know.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I believe the original spelling is probably Savanna. Since the name means "wide open plain" and refers to Africa. But Savannah is definitely the popular choice in spelling.

The only reason my name is spelled that way is because the nurse argued with my mom that there were too many letters in the name and already 3 A's, so 2 N's was too many and so she should drop an N. My mom said she got tired of arguing and gave in. Heck, even someone here mentioned that they didn't like all the A's.

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

I have a second cousin named Moniqua (Monica).

And I once encountered a girl in high school who had a creative spelling because her dad misspelled her name on birth certificate. I can't remember what her name was now.

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

Heck my name isn't even *creative* and I am heartily sick of spelling it. (I'm a Kathryn and there's several accepted spellings of that so no one ever knows which one). I think for any kids I had I'd try to go for names that have one accepted spelling just for everyone's, including the child's, convenience. Especially if like me they had a surname no one can spell or pronounce.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

I'm one of a myriad of Jennifers, but I go by Jena...i picked it in eighth grade, I omitted the second n because there was a Jenna who would be going to the same HS as me (we grew up in the same neighbourhood but went to different schools) and she was a snob and I didn't want to be anything like her.

I often get called Geena or Jaynuh, but I like it.

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

My name isn't creative at all (it's Natasha, I go by Tasha) but people can't seem to get it right. I have a couple friends with unnecessary y's in their names, though ;)

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it counts as 'creative', but my name is Steve and I'm a girl. Loads of problems with post and forms, everything gets addressed to Mr or it gets changed to Steph, and I'm forever having to repeat myself...but for all that, I still really like it. I'm never at a loss for something to say when I'm meeting people!

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

My middle name is Elyse. Not that I have to spell it out often, so it's never a big deal.

[g-unit-kat.livejournal.com]

yayy i'm kathryn too. and no one can ever spell it! haha

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

My name is Krysta, which isn't a terribly uncommon name but the spelling is pretty uncommon. I always, ALWAYS have to spell it for people if I want them to get it right. Usually people think it is supposed to be "Krystal", which irritates the crap out of me because I think "Krystal" is not such a nice name. :\
I love my name, though, regardless of how annoying it is to have to spell it all the time.

[gaspardgroupie.livejournal.com]

My name is Georgia; people never get the spelling or the pronounciation right. It's usually 'George-eee-a'.

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

Lol - they ask with a K or a C and you're like, um well... because you know they're thinking Katherine. I had a brief period at uni when Voyager was on and I could say 'like Janeway'.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

My name is Jerika, and I silently clap for those who pronounce it right the first time. I don't think it's that hard, and my parents didn't, but almost every teacher I've had has pronounced incorrectly, some even after being corrected.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

is it just erica with a j in front of it?

[laminy.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what it is, like Jair at the beginning instead of just Air. Everybody who pronounces it wrong prounounces it the same way: jah-REE-kah. Like Paprika.