This is a topic that comes up often here on the Baby Name Board. Creatively spelled and made up names are not well received here, and for good reason! Recently our fabulous Baby Name Board regular, @bromios, wrote out a wonderful explanation! Before you decide to invent or misspell a name please read this over.
Re: ***Why name spelling matters***
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Looking back now I think I would have chosen to spell her name the original way. My original thought was that the spelling "Elenore" made more sense phonetically.
I first thought of the name after listening to "all the lonely people" from the Beatles but we didn't name her after the song.
We like the meaning of the name and we also liked that it was a less common/ old fashioned name. Although now everyone seems to be naming their kids old fashioned names.
I concur, 100%.
Unfortunately, I don't know if people who consider dipping into the "XY and Z bowl" for their kids' YOO-NEEK names are going to have the patience to read that - let alone the comprehesion skills to understand what you are talking about. Here's hoping...
:P
I like Jax better ;;)
Also, Kathryn (and all it's variants) have Katie as a nick name...even though there is no hard T sound in Kathryn. Same goes for Margaret/Maggie/Peggy, John/Jack, Robert/Bob, Elizabeth/Betty/Betsy, Kathleen/Kate, James/Jim...I'm sure there's more.
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Um, if that's the way one spells a name.. Then it IS spelled correctly. Still like Jax better.
Also, Kathryn (and all it's variants) have Katie as a nick name...even though there is no hard T sound in Kathryn. Same goes for Margaret/Maggie/Peggy, John/Jack, Robert/Bob, Elizabeth/Betty/Betsy, Kathleen/Kate, James/Jim...I'm sure there's more.
True.
Eta Although when someone who reads the name Jackson (say a teacher)and decides to call that person a nn, they are more likely to say jack rather than Jacks.
Eta but I do get what op is saying. And that was an interesting read.
Ok then. I guess I don't. Carry on.
Eta Although when someone who reads the name Jackson (say a teacher)and decides to call that person a nn, they are more likely to say jack rather than Jacks.
This argument is completely invalid. No random person will be giving my child a NN. A NN is decided upon by the parents and/or child.
My sisters son is named Nicholas. But he goes by his mn at home. At school they call him by his first name, of course. Well they often call him Nick for short. Happened at camp also. Nobody in are family calls him Nick. It's not a big deal to my sister. But she wasn't there when they started calling him that, she didn't even know for awhile. He never said anything because it doesn't bother him. So who knows. Maybe your child will end up with a nn you didn't give. It happens. ;-) ok I'm done here. Have a good day.
ETA now my mom, that's a different story. She didn't want us to have nn. So she would definitely say something about it. But I like when I'm called Liv, although it is something I've only gotten used to as an adult.
I wouldn't. My dogs name is Jack.
Many of the nicknames you listed have legit historical and etymological reasons for existing. Jaxon does not.
But, you have fallen backwards into an excellent argument against yourself. Spell the name Jackson and his nickname can be Jax. Not all the letters need be present in the name for a nickname (like Katie and Kathryn, for example.). Win-win.
That's the point I was making...I think the quote boxes got messed up.
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Further proving that you don't get the point. You is a general you. 8-|
So because it was a general you, I can't respond to as why I wouldn't use the name? Um ok :-@
So because it was a general you, I can't respond to as why I would use the name? Um ok :-@
Yeah oooook
Also, Kathryn (and all it's variants) have Katie as a nick name...even though there is no hard T sound in Kathryn. Same goes for Margaret/Maggie/Peggy, John/Jack, Robert/Bob, Elizabeth/Betty/Betsy, Kathleen/Kate, James/Jim...I'm sure there's more.
Isn't Kathryn a butchered version of Catherine?
Justin + Laura 10.18.08
TTC #1 09.10/Dx PCOS 12.10/BFP #1 12.29.10/EDD 9.10.11/Missed m/c 2.3.11/D&C 2.15.11
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”-Kahlil Gibran
Cycle #1 4.2.11 + Clomid = BFN/Cycle #2 5.9.11 + Clomid + Trigger Shot = TWINS!
Walter Allen and Eleanor Joan 1.15.12
Another baby on the way! 8.25.14
My daughter is Evangeline. DH and I call her by her full name as does everyone that sees her regularly. But, others, that see her rarely have come up with several nicknames for her. Evi, Evie, Evan. Whatever, she knows her name is Evangeline. I don't really care if someone that sees her once a year calls her Evi.
Pick and choose your battles.
Justin + Laura 10.18.08
TTC #1 09.10/Dx PCOS 12.10/BFP #1 12.29.10/EDD 9.10.11/Missed m/c 2.3.11/D&C 2.15.11
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”-Kahlil Gibran
Cycle #1 4.2.11 + Clomid = BFN/Cycle #2 5.9.11 + Clomid + Trigger Shot = TWINS!
Walter Allen and Eleanor Joan 1.15.12
Another baby on the way! 8.25.14