Never knew anyone with a weird spelling but I knew a dude who had the unfortunate name of Harry Butt. Already bad enough your family name is “Butt” but his parents did him hella dirty naming him Harry.
Was always funny getting a sub thinking he was just fucking with them tho.
Butt is actually a common Kashmiri last name. If he was from India/ Pakistan that night make sense
I would like to provide a counterexample. There are plenty of these people in the US intermountain west, but there are at least some cases where there is no one at fault. Next time you see one of these names without context (though we clearly have the context in this case), before judging, consider Nariaw:
I am a teacher, and one year I found that my roster included a student named “Nariaw”. As a public school, we register your student based on what’s on the birth certificate. I ask all of my students to pronounce their names for me when I first meet them, for the reason we see in so many of the replies here and with shit like “abcde”. However, when this girl came to my class, she said her name was pronounced “Miriam”. I spent a good twenty seconds looking at my roster, and had to ask her to spell it for me. I didn’t ask any rude and impertinent questions at that point, so it wasn’t until a few months later that I got the full story:
Her mother, an immigrant from Ethiopia, was still unfamiliar with Latin script when her daughter was born here in the US. So when she attempted to write out the name, which she wanted to transliterate as “Mariam”, she ended up writing only half of the first M, and wrote the second one upside-down. Whoever did the data entry for the government records dutifully recorded the child’s name as “Nariaw”. Was the mother at fault for being expected to write a name which, while she knew how to represent it in Amharic, she was forced to write in a language in which she was illiterate?
Wow. Yeah, definitely good to be gracious in that situation!
Another is, some cultures, not too far from home - like Irish and Welsh - have names written in ways that look Traighdiegh to English, but are the correct/traditional way to spell it for that culture.
That’s super frustrating. The hospital should have easily been able to get someone who had at least a basic grasp of a common language to help ensure they understood the forms and got them filled out correctly.
The fault is 100% with the hospital.
I would argue that at least 15% of the blame lies with the racist expectation in the US that all names need be anglicized, when we have fucking Unicode. If someone whose second language is English can be expected to be able to pronounce “Rayleigh Monaghan McTavish”, then the least that the anglophone people of the US could do is learn to pronounce things in a few other common languages. There is, quite simply, no excuse for the government of the united States, in which there is no official language (even though a traitor, invalidated by the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, had some fuckwit draft a document trying to declare it without congressional approval), to mandate the use of a single language.
That really qogA.
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Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.
That is like a grandma reading a hash out loud
I’m now thinking of that classic post from the old site that shows someone’s painstakingly cursive-written note of the entire text of a bluescreen (the old bluescreen with a lot of characters on screen) for tech support.
And thinking of a slightly more tech inclined grandma who doesn’t quite get all of it having a problem with a torrent and just reading the infohash/magnet link to the ISP’s support call center.
…what kinda hash?
Hashashin, get stabbed loser.
Why did I read that in Napoleon Dynamite’s voice?
Brownie
like a sha-512 for example, if you are not familiar with the concept. go ahead and google it :)
Yeah that dude is obsessed with x. He slaps it everywhere he can
That’s what happens when you prevent your kid from exploring X sites till your adulthood
Can you just use all of unicode in the US for baby names?
X Æ A-Xii . I could not resist. I apologize.
Apology not necessary.
I am happy that here in Finland you can’t name your child whatever you want.
‘Whatever you want’ would be a terrible name
Yep, the government would say no to that name.
The downside is, neither can any adult. I think the first name limitations should only apply to kids; legal adults should be able to change their names to whatever they want, no matter how stupid it is. It could only hurt themselves after all
Tragedeigh
Kommie-dagh
Congrats to my brother Jerry and his stepdaughter!
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Omg I didn’t even notice that at first
Can we just start using cosmic horror entity names already? Reighfyl is definitely something I could see being some sort of Lovecraftian alien
Think they’ll name their next daughter Cheaughtgeughn?
Hah, maybe. I am gunning for just going full tilt and naming their next daughter Shub-Niggurath
Ia! The black goat of the woods with a thousand young! Ia!
Forgive me… is that supposed to be shotgun?
Yeah, at maximum Feloneigh spelling.
It hurt to read, well done
Maybe Caoilfhionn?
Wonder what his wife thinks of this pregnancy
There’s a girl in my kid’s class named Eighmee. Pronounced “Amy”. I thought it was weird but there’s a street in a neighboring town named Eighmee Street.
Wow. So maybe it wasn’t an “I’m so new and unique” Traighdiegh. I wonder what the history of Eighmee Street is.
La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah) is the weirdest one I’ve seen
I’ve seen that as La-ah. Somehow La-a is so much worse.
Seems the article is from 2008, and the La-a I know of was in pre-k in ~2015, so it seems someone named their kid based on the legend.
The first time I read that it was le-a , which could be read as lea without the dash
Seems to be an urban legend tough. Also racist.
I’ve seen one in real life. Maybe they just carried a fake id card as a joke, but this was in a billing department so I’m assuming it was real.
Yeah the other reply noted the same thing. This would have been about ~2015 and she was in pre-k so someone must have named their kid based on the legend. I can’t recall if the girl was black or not but I don’t think she was.
The dash don’t be silent
“Breighdone” (Brayden) is probably the most egregious one I haven’t brain-bleached yet.
My friend works in the billing department of a local hospital, and she will occasionally text me some crazy spellings she comes across.
yeah that’s literally a HIPAA violation lol
esp if the spelling is that unique, it’s definitely identifying info
It probably would get her in some hot water, but a first name alone is a gray area. It becomes a definite violation if it’s combined with health information, even as simple “a baby was born here with the name X”. If she just says “I saw a name spelled X” then it may not be a violation of the law, but the hospital would probably still can her for it.
I named my son Jaxin because my wife wanted Jax and I didn’t want my son to have a dog’s name.
I regret not just naming him Jackson because nobody in Taiwan knows how to pronounce Jaxin.
Sorry, you are not legally permitted to name your son Jackson unless you carry the name Jack yourself.
Hate to pile on, but could have done Jackson and then called him Jax for short just as easily. Hell Dick is short for Richard, short names don’t have to be spelled the same.
I know. That is why I said i regret not just naming him Jackson. It’s too late now. His passports and legal name in 2 countries are already set. It would be hell to change it now.
Could have named him Jacob and called him Jax.
Or basically any J name, honestly.
Joseph, shortened as jax
Jacob was just the most basic I could think of
Jay.
JaXin would, I believe, be a normal Chinese name - but pronounced quite differently!
Ya people call him Ja Sin.
Verbalee. I met this in IRL.
Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.
Ptoughneigh
Brothers with Phteven
Full name, Toneigh Lynne Groan.
Damn why don’t they have a toe emoji.
T’Fanny for Tiffany. She’s about 30 now, so that was a bad decision from a long time ago.
T’Fanny sounds like the name of a Vulcan stripper lol.
“Live long, t’werk that t’fanny, and prosper 🖖”
Worst lap dance in the quadrant … yeah right it was scientifically measured and performed
Fkn lol!
Hope she never goes to Britain…
How did Americans get fanny backwards but they wear fanny packs correctly?
Nah they’re called “bum bags”
Only younger generations wear fanny packs “correctly”. They were originally a hip bag that stayed behind you, not something you wore in front of you. Because fanny was slang for ass in America.
So younger generations wear them “wrong” in the sense that they were originally meant to be worn behind you. But “correctly” in the British sense.
Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.
Oh dear lord no
I’ve seen this name also in the wild. Girl was pretty fat too. Poor kid.
I remember reading an article about an airport staff person ( possibly TSA? ) laughing about a little girls name. Same exact name. Crazy stuff that any parent could start their children at square -3 upon being born.
I fully came in here with this name in mind. Lol in the 10 years since I’ve first heard it, I’ve never come across anyone else who has heard the same. I somehow hope we’re all running into the same Abcde and there aren’t just hordes of them out there.
Reminds me of that kids book CDB
This is actually a tuff name
