Just curious...

[politicking.livejournal.com]

What is the most ~creative/unique~ spelling you have seen... of your own name or your kid(s) name(s)? Not necessarily a pretty or nice spelling, mind you lol, just something that made you go, "but... why?"

For me: I'm Jennifer. I have personally seen: Jenapher, Jennefer, Genifer and Jennafer. I also have seen it shortened to: Jenne (prn "Jen/Jenn"), Jenney, and Genny. Which leads me to: there is really no way to *spice up* Jennifer, it is what it is haha. 

My son is Ryan. Last year in his class he had Reyane(*my bad, I misspelled it the first time, had to double check his class picture from last year) that was said like "Ryan." That just made me go "huh?" You can't just change the sound of letters or make them randomly silent... I mean, you can... but in this case, your child is likely being called "Ray-Ann" when their name is read.

Comments

[tokossel.livejournal.com]

Rayane is an Arabic name pronounced Ryan- perfectly legitimate.

[lutine.livejournal.com]

Jessica - I've seen Jeska and Jessyka.

[medamina.livejournal.com]

My name is Zoe and the worst I've seen in Xoie... I still don't get it...

[politicking.livejournal.com]

I had Googled it before and came up with nothing but some perfume name or brand... I just went back and looked at his class picture and *I* misspelled it-- it was a girl named "Reyane" she pronounced it "Ryan"

[lil-cherub.livejournal.com]

My name is Rebecca. I've seen Rebeka, Rebekah, Rebbecca, Rebbeka, all sorts of combos with k's and h's. Its a Bibical name and nearly all legimate.

[starcrossed.livejournal.com]

My name is Rebecca. The craziest spelling I've seen is Rabecah. (seriously, what is that?)

I'm a Teaching Assistant in Kindergarten and and we have some cr8tive spelled names including Rubie and also Kyran (pronounced Kieran.)

[politicking.livejournal.com]

I worked with a Rebecka, went to school with a Rebecca, and have recently met a Rebekah. Lol

[lil-cherub.livejournal.com]

I like my name, there are just so many variations to it! I think the spelling I have is the most common.

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

My name is Hali (pronounced Hail-ee) and I've seen a Hailea (in this community, actually) and a Hailie. Those are probably the worst.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

Funny that I didn't realize until now everyone I know with the name spells it differently lol

[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

My name is Kailee. I've seen Caylee, Kaylee, K'leigh, Kali, Kayleigh and on and on and on. I don't know. I hate my name and pretty much every spelling of it.

My older son is Lukas. Worst spelling I have seen is Lucus.
Older daughter is Dylan. My least fave spelling is Dillon. I know it's legit, but I always read it as dill-on...as in, "I would like some dill on my xyz food."
Younger son is Ezra. I have seen Ezrah on a girl. Not a fan of that.
And my youngest daughter is Norah. I haven't seen any crazy spellings of that.

[madeyemads.livejournal.com]

My name is Madeleine.

It's a nice name, a classic. But it means I have spent my life dealing with Madeline, Maddilynne, Madalen, Madison, Maddyson, Madisin, Madlyn ... all of which are WRONG.

It's Madeleine, surely that isn't too hard?

[mommaalli.livejournal.com]

My name is Allison. I had a friend in highschool whose name was spelled Alicynne. I have no idea whether it was her given spelling or just a highschooler trying to be "different." She was a cool chick though.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

I'm Kirsty and the worst I've seen is Qiorstaidh - someone tried to Gaelic it up a bit too far.

[phoenixglass.livejournal.com]

Mine's Miranda. I've seen a couple of Morandas and Myrandas of people failing to spell my name correctly, but Miranda's pretty easy, at least in my experience for people to spell the original way. It's all the people who forget that it's Miranda and guess every other name that starts with an M that I have more trouble with.

My mother and my brother get Barbra'd and Ronin'd a lot though.

[forloveofbaby.livejournal.com]

I'm Nicole and I've seen Nichole, Nickole, Niccole & Nicolle. My son is Nolan and I haven't seen anything different there but my husband, Jay, I've seen as Jai, which I pronounce as 'hi' because of Jai Alai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_alai)

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha love your comment

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

For your Jennifer spelling - how about Ginnifer as in Ginnifer Goodwin? But I'm not sure if that's her given spelling of the name. IMDB tells me her given name is Jennifer Michelle, but then again, IMDB could be wrong :P

As for your question, my name's Mette. You can't really mess it up a lot. I've seen people write it as Medde, because they had only heard people say it, and as Metta as well. But I've never seen them been written like that as a given name.

[heyskeleton.livejournal.com]

I'm Kayla, so I get Kaylah a lot (which I hate), and I got Cayla once. I know of a Kaela and a Kaila--the latter makes me want to say KY-la. I also tend to get called Karla a lot.

[designingdreams.livejournal.com]

The name Mette is awesome and it reminds me of Newsies (but I think is spelled 'Medda' in the film).

My sister's name is Kelsey, and we went to college with a 'Celsea'. It didn't seem as weird when I realized it was Chelsea without the H, but still, written, I'd have guessed 'Sell-see' or maybe 'Sell-see-uh'.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I'm a Rebecca too (aka Becky). A few weeks back I remember a post in this comm. that had a Ribbekkah or something close to that horrid spelling.

[notanoptionbaby.livejournal.com]

I'm Allison and when I was a TA for a grade 9 class I got Allyson, Alysin, Allisyn, Allicine... wish I was kidding.

[composure.livejournal.com]

Ginny. Most people spell it with a J, even when I spell it out. I haven't seen many other variations, although I did see a Jini on I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I'm a Mary Grace, so each name has to be butchered separately. I've seen Mari and know a Merry and then there's the Celtic Mhairi (I love that one's wackiness). Oh, and once, a classmate wrote my name as "Marry Grace." I guess we know his true feelings, then.

For Grace, there's really only Gracen/Gracin/Gracyn. Why are people sticking an unnecessary "N" on a perfectly good name?

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

My sister-in-law is an Alicynne. Could we be talking about the same one? There can't be that many. Did you go to high school in Hawaii by any chance?