Yikes

[serendipitous13.livejournal.com]

I just found out how my fiance's niece's name is spelled. I thought they'd picked out a nice name.
However.....


Chloee Jayde


Yeah... my fiance's older sister wanted, "to be different."

I told my fiance that our children will NOT be having names with pointless "e"s and extra "y"s thrown in just for the fun of it. He completely agreed. :)
First pick for a girl is currently Samantha.
Chelsea is a close second.
No middle names yet.

We still can't agree on any boy names. Good thing we have a year or two.

Comments

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Those are good choices :)

Ugh totally agree with you. Chloe Jade is such a lovely name too, if it aint broke don't fix it.

As a kid I was never quite sure how to spell my [given] middle name, and as an adult I notice how often people/companies use the standard spelling. It isn't even that outrageous a 'variant' either (Clair, as opposed to Claire).
I've grown to appreciate it, as it was quite well intentioned, but overall it's so not worth the agro/embarassment.

I've got a bit of a complex now. Gave myself a word name partly because surely everyone will get it right (it's on every other packet of stuffing, lol).
Would definetly not want to be a teacher in five years time, because damn no name is safe these days. Then people act like your the idiot for not being psychic and knowing how to spell their [kid's] name (my parents still get that way *roll eyes*).

Creative spellings can make pronounciation issue too. I have a forum friend Casie. For the longest time I thought it was said 'cassie', but nope it's 'casey'. She's used to that though.

[serendipitous13.livejournal.com]

Yes! My mom has had her name mispronounced her entire life. She avoided that with her children (Joseph, Rebecca and Nathaniel) and she's mentioned to us that our children's lives will be much easier if we give them names people know how to pronounce/spell.