If you're going to give your kid one of the most popular names ever

mamarazzi

please spell it correctly.  PLEASE.

There's a guy on the local news named Mike'l.  Last night, there was a news story about a dude named Michael...but spelled "Mickle."

WTF?

ali-1411

LOL.

I apologize to my kid all the time for screwing up his name.  I was young and wanted him to be different and Jacob was the top baby name for years on end.  So I made him, Jakob.

By the time he was 6 years old, he was mad because "People always spell my name with a C.  I tell them its a K and so they just make a line through the C to make it a K!"

He's come to terms with it now.  I'm pretty sure he won't need therapy for it

Alibabs

Maybe it's a cultural thing? I don't get the whole apostrophe thing in names, but the spelling could be foreign.

DS#2 is called Evan, but we spell it Eimhin, because that is the correct Irish spelling. It is pronounced the exact same way.

neesernicole

there's a 1st grader named Eythen ... guess they needed to get the 'y' in there somehow.

Amberzxoxo

My DD is Sofia and it is constantly spelt wrong. Its the greek spelling.

AnnapolisLari

Alibabs:

DS#2 is called Evan, but we spell it Eimhin, because that is the correct Irish spelling. It is pronounced the exact same way.

Oops. I've always thought of your second as 'Eamon', not Evan. Sorry!

EMT

Anyone remember the nestie that wanted to name her son Ryan but wanted to spell it Ryn?

Alibabs

AnnapolisLari:

Alibabs:

DS#2 is called Evan, but we spell it Eimhin, because that is the correct Irish spelling. It is pronounced the exact same way.

Oops. I've always thought of your second as 'Eamon', not Evan. Sorry!

 

LOL No need to apologize...It's Irish and I'm on an American board. I'd be very surprised if anyone knew the correct pronunciation!

cristiana

EMT:

Anyone remember the nestie that wanted to name her son Ryan but wanted to spell it Ryn?

lol, yes! The missing, yet implied "a".

A&R2005

mamarazzi

cristiana:

EMT:

Anyone remember the nestie that wanted to name her son Ryan but wanted to spell it Ryn?

lol, yes! The missing, yet implied "a".

That's only acceptable if you use an apostrophe.

Ry'n.

I totally get spelling names differently for cultural reasons.  I even get Jakob since Jake is such a popular nickname.  I'm guessing the two variations of Michael I'm looking at weren't done for any other purpose other than to be U'neek.

(full disclosure -- my DS2 is spelled Andersen that way because it ties to a family name.  DD's middle name is Ryann and it's a combination of my BIL's name and my Grandma's middle name.  So, I'm no stranger to "made up" names, but it seems silly to completely butcher a spelling just for the sake of doing it to be different)

 

lsufan

Alibabs:

Maybe it's a cultural thing? I don't get the whole apostrophe thing in names, but the spelling could be foreign.

DS#2 is called Evan, but we spell it Eimhin, because that is the correct Irish spelling. It is pronounced the exact same way.

I always wondered how to pronounce Eimhin when I saw it in your sig.  I never would have guessed Evan!  That's my oldest DS's name.  

And I agree with the apostrophe thing.  Just use a vowel already! 

SuperCuteBenz

EMT:

Anyone remember the nestie that wanted to name her son Ryan but wanted to spell it Ryn?

My son's name is Ryne. Everyone calls him Ryan. There was another nestie on my birth month board that named her son Ryne as well, but they were going to pronounce it Ryan.