Idiotic Baby Names

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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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My observation is that when "normal" Americans see a oddly spelled name they automatically think it's foreign and start to try to pronounce it as it it were since many foreign names for some reason are not spelled phonetically. I fall victim to this a bit too since I would with foreign people on a daily basis. If I saw Joshem, I would think Joe-shum because it looks Hebrew.

Also, my wife's name is Chanin (pronounced Shannon). She gets Cha-nin and Cha-neen a lot.

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Im naming my kids Walker and Texas Ranger.

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Are they going to be all jacked up on mountain dew?

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Originally Posted by Rob

Are they going to be all jacked up on mountain dew?

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"Like a SPIDER MONKEY!"

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Originally Posted by RoseyReps

My sister in law is a kindergarten teacher. She had two kids, brothers, that came through her class.
Orangejello
Lemonjello
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Not even joking.

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OMG I Almost choke myself with my coffee...

Strange names...exotic names dont anoy me that much especially that we live in country with almost every nation and every language...

but Yea example above and Airwrecka.. dang thats something...

I have good friend with first name Tuesday.. always wondering if that was day when she was born or procreated ;)

For me more anoing is miss pronounciation...


I'm Polish.. My name is Rafał... last letter is L with accent.. You spell it like W on begining in english words like in welcome, waco, week ect ect...


I meet One "american" person who actually paid attention and try spell it right all the time His Agrument was That this is my name and it should be spell right... Others.. Geeez.. I was called Raf Raplh Ralphie Rafa (that one is actually funnt because in polish that meens reef)... and so many other forms of my name lolz..


Seriously so many times I just use Raphael (hebrew/Spanish/Italian form of my name) it bothers me way less than other forms..

The best weird name is still Moon Unit.

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Originally Posted by Aes_Sidhe

OMG I Almost choke myself with my coffee...

Strange names...exotic names dont anoy me that much especially that we live in country with almost every nation and every language...

but Yea example above and Airwrecka.. dang thats something...

I have good friend with first name Tuesday.. always wondering if that was day when she was born or procreated ;)

For me more anoing is miss pronounciation...


I'm Polish.. My name is Rafał... last letter is L with accent.. You spell it like W on begining in english words like in welcome, waco, week ect ect...


I meet One "american" person who actually paid attention and try spell it right all the time His Agrument was That this is my name and it should be spell right... Others.. Geeez.. I was called Raf Raplh Ralphie Rafa (that one is actually funnt because in polish that meens reef)... and so many other forms of my name lolz..


Seriously so many times I just use Raphael (hebrew/Spanish/Italian form of my name) it bothers me way less than other forms..

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This is interesting! I've never seen (personally) the L with accent. So phonetically you pronounce your name Rafaw?

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Originally Posted by Aes_Sidhe

I meet One "american" person who actually paid attention and try spell it right all the time His Agrument was That this is my name and it should be spell right... Others.. Geeez.. I was called Raf Raplh Ralphie Rafa (that one is actually funnt because in polish that meens reef)... and so many other forms of my name lolz..

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That's me. I'm almost obsessive about getting people's names right, especially because I'm not the greatest with names. So when I am introduced to a person, that's the name I use. Always. And then sometimes I find out a few months later they actually prefer to go by their nickname... :rolleyes:

A little off topic I guess... lol

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Originally Posted by SquamishSerpents

The best weird name is still Moon Unit.

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moon unit and dweezil zappa... I love me some Zappa!!

I am happy that my parents named me something normal lol.

Joseph James Davidson (The Second)

Or I go by Joey.

I have never once been asked to spell my first name or last name! WOOT!!!!

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Originally Posted by RoseyReps

This is interesting! I've never seen (personally) the L with accent. So phonetically you pronounce your name Rafaw?

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Not exactly is still L but harder something between L and W... best way to hear it is just do copy bolded from my post and paste it to Google Translate as polish and hear pronunciation. .

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Originally Posted by Aes_Sidhe

Not exactly is still L but harder something between L and W... best way to hear it is just do copy bolded from my post and paste it to Google Translate as polish and hear pronunciation. .

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Done and done. Very cool :)