Very strange names for children

That means that you can be KVIIIk or K8k

Oooh! So I can! Never thought of that......blame my Sunday lunch!

So it's pronounced Caitlin ?
Who would know. Ridiculous!

Silly.. like a.word.puzzle. Margaret would be MR gr8 I suppose.

What an odd choice of spelling, mind I've tried to find out where my Aunt's name came from and haven't managed to find out apart from its Welsh, she was called Gwlythyn as was my eldest sister. Always pronounced Gly thyn, I had a terrible time when my Aunt was in a nursing home with Alzheimers they would insist on calling her Gwill no wonder she was confused.
If anyone else has heard of it or can find a meaning I'd love to hear it.

When I was a student I used to babysit regularly for a mum called Gennifer-with-a-G. She always said it like that when telling her name, otherwise people would spell it with a J. Her first child was called Kate but people joked that it was Kate-with-a-Qu. It was quite a posh family. Nice people though and they always fed me well and gave me a room in their house overnight cos they were a bit out from Dundee.

I remember getting a list of names sent to me when DGD was expected and they had an unrecognisable name amongst them. Turned out it was a Gaelic spelling of Katie ... it wasn't my favourite name but I did say they would be better with plain Katie (or maybe K80???) to give us all a chance if that was the chosen name!

Happily another name was chosen.

There was a lovely Lady in Cornwall (As in titled Lady but I can't remember her full title) who always introduced herself as "Jonet the spelling mistake" because her father had been sent to register her birth and didn't notice that Janet had been spelled wrong.

Regarding names, the teachers and social workers on here will find few surprises at the bizzare names some people give their children. Particularly unusual spellings. There was trend for initials such as DB JD PJ etc.

I have the misfortune of being given an 'unusual' name. I've always hated it, and in fact, it made me a very, very shy child, with no self-confidence, because I was so self-conscious. Parents that do this to their children really do need a lesson in walking in the shoes of someone 'unusual', then maybe, a proper name would be given to their little darlin' instead of something ridiculous, like mine!

I remember when a school friend referred to her 'Aunt Girl'. We were all intrigued; but evidently she was the last child of an enormous family and the parents had run out of ideas!

I know a real life Sky whose daughter is called Rainbow. She shortened it to Rain when she went to university. There is also a child In one of our coastal villages called Prayer.........

I once taught a little girl blessed with the middle name 'Aitch'. Apparently she was born in a year when the car registration letter was an 'H'. ?

We had a KC and an SX at school ( born in Essex apparently) . Just imagine what She will suffer when a bit older !

We had a child at the school I worked at with what I thought was the stupidest name spelling ever but the OP's beats it hollow!

It's not really a 'spelling' at all, though, is it? A 'spelling' surely means that the sounds within the word are spelled according to the conventions of a language's orthographic system. You can't make up a completely new system on a whim; no-one else would be ab!e to read what you write!
Poor child.

Stupid woman.

We had a Paige Read and a
Jade Green.

My Dad always said he had a Dwayne Pipe !!

OK guess the name. I have an unusual name beginning with H. Very few people get it right and so I tend to reply to anything - Helen, Hilary, Hannah, Heather, Helena, Helga, Holly, Harriet, Heidi

When it matters i will make sure my name is spelt correctly and said. Most of the time I just don't worry about it.

I did hear of a child called La-a ( pronounced Ladasha, apparently)
Not sure I believe it, though.

my middle son is Dafydd ( the welsh for David) we have had so much fun since we moved to England with people both trying to spell & pronounce it, so much so he now calls himself Daf ( pronounced Dav).

My daughter works in the local maternity unit and hears some crackers. Her favourite was a little girl called Germolene!

I can remember a child staying at my mum's (she used to keep summer visitors) the little girl was called Happy Harry, because her father was on a ship called that when she was born

chocolate pudding - Hermione? Halcyone? Hepzibah?