Shawn/Sean/Shaun?

[frenchnails.livejournal.com]

So how do you spell this name?

Shawn?
Sean?
Shaun?

I ask because my son's name is Shawn, and I'm forever having to spell it for people, they always automatically spell it Sean.

I named him partly after the wrestler Shawn Michaels, and I HATE the spelling Sean, it just doesn't... look right to me. It looks like it should be pronounced 'Seen' not 'Shawn.' So I went with the literal spelling, I like it much better.

But now I'm getting a couple 'Shaun' spellings too.

Haha it's so annoying, I name my son something normal (for me anyway) and I get trouble with it -.-

Comments

[tokudama.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid I had classmates with the spellings Shawn and Sean, so both of these are pretty normal for me. Since Sean is the 'original' I'd say you're just going to have to get used to correcting it. My first name is an unusually spelled variant too; having to spell my name out for people has always been a part of my life and honestly it's not annoying at all once you've done it often enough :)