Idiotic Baby Names

I have a "weird" name...sort of. It's Katia (Ka-Tee-Uh) but I get called all kinds of things. Catch-ya, Kade-Ee-Uh, Kay-Tee-A, I've even been called Tequila for some reason. I swear people don't even try with my name, lol.

I have no idea why my parents named me that. My dad was French-Canadian, but it's pronounced "Catch-ya" in Quebec.

I agree with the spelling things.

Alecksandreea - My friends were LEGIT debating weather they should name their daughter this. No, just....no. crap like this needs to be stopped haha. It seems people are just trying to find the most obscure spelling. And it's true, it causes A LOT of headaches when it comes to legal documents. I have had trouble with multiple things bcause my name on my credit card is Katia (because that's my name!) but people on the other end assume I am "Katie." UGH!

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Originally Posted by Bobbafett

This girl I know named her kid Blaze...

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Did you challenge her to a Pokémon battle? :P

Just met someone at work names Rachel Hoogacker Swords. At Rachel is normal.

My wife is a public high school teacher.
She's had twins in her classes named la-a and la.a. That's Ladasha and Ladotta so I know for sure the whole La-a thing is legit. She's had some doozies she's come home with that she couldn't even pronounce. But my all time favorite was IUD. Yep - IUD the pronunciation was I Unique. How the hell you get that from IUD I'll never know but that was her name. It's amazing how stupid some people are when naming their kids.

I went to high school with a guy with the last name Kuhn, pronounced Que-in. He stated multiple times he always wanted to have a daughter so he could name her Barbie.

I love me some BBQ, but that's a little unnecessary.

i say if you want to spell a name strangely, go ahead. my daughter's name is Airianne(pronounced air-e-ann.) i spedded it that way so it was phonetically correct and people would not mispronounce it. she is constantly called everything BUT Airianne. the most common ones are Arianna(are-e-anna) and Airianna(air-e-anna). i dont know how anna comes in to play with a name that clearly does not end in "A" but whatever. spell names however you want, the bottom line is people are gonna muck it up no matter what. might as well be original.


my name is Josh. or Joshua actually. easy, right? change two letters and its not. i have a buddy named Joshem. pronounced Josh-um. no one ever gets that right. he gets a lot of Joe-sheeeeem.

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Originally Posted by lefty

i say if you want to spell a name strangely, go ahead. my daughter's name is Airianne(pronounced air-e-ann.) i spedded it that way so it was phonetically correct and people would not mispronounce it. she is constantly called everything BUT Airianne. the most common ones are Arianna(are-e-anna) and Airianna(air-e-anna). i dont know how anna comes in to play with a name that clearly does not end in "A" but whatever. spell names however you want, the bottom line is people are gonna muck it up no matter what. might as well be original.


my name is Josh. or Joshua actually. easy, right? change two letters and its not. i have a buddy named Joshem. pronounced Josh-um. no one ever gets that right. he gets a lot of Joe-sheeeeem.

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Except when your kid gets frustrated because no one can spell/pronounce it and she gets picked on. Originality is not always a good thing.

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Originally Posted by Raptor

Except when your kid gets frustrated because no one can spell/pronounce it and she gets picked on. Originality is not always a good thing.

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ya well, my kids name is spelled exactly as it should be pronounced. does that happen? no. spelling does not always to mispronounciation or proper pronounciation. most of the time its peoples inability to read or lack of paying attention imo.

I completely understand the differences in spellings when the person's country of origin comes into play: ex: Aleksandra and someone said Cristina (and all of those Irish names I can never pronounce, haha). However, spelling things ridiculously just to be original makes me go crazy.

I'm planning to be a teacher, and lord knows what I'm going to run into in the future with all these crazy names popping up.

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Originally Posted by lefty

ya well, my kids name is spelled exactly as it should be pronounced. does that happen? no. spelling does not always to mispronounciation or proper pronounciation. most of the time its peoples inability to read or lack of paying attention imo.

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..Or, you know. Weird spellings are going to get weird pronunciations.