My best friend's younger brother (who is 20 yrs. old) and his immature girlfriend who just wanted a baby even though she doesn't have a job or savings named their baby. They are pronouncing the name like Michaela or McKayla but it will be spelt Miquela. Since the girlfriend is part hispanic she wanted to spell it like this since "que" in Spanish sounds like "kay." I have never heard of this name being spelt like this and would hate it if it were my name. My husband is half Venezuelan and we wouldn't ever consider something like this when we have a kid.
Re: Lifetime of mispronounciations
If you accept the McKayla corruption of the original name Michaela, why not this one? It's exactly the same thing, changing the original name for cultural reasons. Actually, this is a little better, since the McK change is usually not used by Scottish people but just because people like the Gaelicness of it. At least she's using it as a nod to her culture.
I am a big fan of the original spelling, but I think that people are largely ignorant, and this name is spelled so many different ways, the one I am most likely to here mispronounced is the original Michaela. (I often here Michael-ah.) It probably will be mispelled mroe than mispronounced.
i think that observing her heritage is cool, but does she know that miquela translates literally to "me that the"
it's a little odd...
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just because separately "mi que la" translates into "me that/what the" doesn't mean that it still translates that way when it is run all together.
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ditto