what's in a name????

[Soledad]

If people want to mispell names, that's fine, but they have to realise that for their entire life people are going to spell it the original way whether they like it or not.

If you choose to name your son Danyell don't get upset when everyone spells it Daniel. It's just common sense.



In about 10 years there is going to be a female population almost entirely named either:

Mackenzie
Mikayla
Madison
Brianna


Those have to be four of my least favorite names. The worst part is that everyone who uses those names thinks they are somehow original.

[Kfamr]

I love different spellings. It's unique.

[Soledad]

How is it unique when everyone is doing it??

[PepperRSM]

I agree.

There are about a BILLION girls at my school named Brianna!
I've also seen a lot of girls named Mackenzie and Mikayla, not at my school, but a few grades below me. I know someone who had a daughter a few years ago and they named her Mikanna(sp?).

My name is pretty normal, Rachel, I like it, but for some reason, everyone wants to spell it Rachael or Racheal, I'm not sure where they put the a at the end, I never pay attention becuase that's not how it's spelled anyway

I think some names are ok to have weird spellings, if the name is weird enough already, but common names like Michael and Jennifer.......just let the name be!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Soledad


If you choose to name your son Danyell don't get upset when everyone spells it Daniel. It's just common sense.



In about 10 years there is going to be a female population almost entirely named either:

Mackenzie
Mikayla
Madison
Brianna


Those have to be four of my least favorite names. The worst part is that everyone who uses those names thinks they are somehow original.

you mean..

makenzee
meekaylah
mahdyson
bryannuh


my point is that until that person passes on to the netherworld they will always have problems with being identified correctly!

i used to think my name was unique until some former coworkers called me to wish me well on my
surgery........
it wasn't me!!!! it was someone with the same name and approximately the same age!

the problem with mispelled names, in my job, is that they can get you killed.

suppose your daughter's name is JAYNE SMITH, Born on Jan 1st 1989 and she's allergic to penicillin.

she gets into an accident with no ID on her and is taken to an ER...

because she's in and out of conciousness and the only info they have is her mispelled name and a month and year of birth-1/89-she gets the JANE SMITH, born jan 15, 1989, NOT ALLERGIC TO PENICILLIN record...

YIKES!!!!!

[Karen]

I have a very commonly spelled name, first and last. Even so, I always spell it for people when giving my name. My older siblings have UNcommon first names, and they spell it for people every time as well. It's just safer that way!

[cubby31682]

My name is Kathrine. Not Katherine, for some reason (I swear they gave my mom to many drugs when she had me) missed an e on my birth certificate. I never know if I should sign things that have my name mis-spelled becuase it isn't really my name on the things I need to sign but I just sign it anyways with my normal spelling. But ever since I could remember I have been called Katie, Katers, Kat Rin, and many many more. It's amazing what parents can thing of to call thier children. My parents had a never ending list of names that went along with Katie or Kathrine it drove me crazy at times.

[RICHARD]

Thanks!

spelling your name, as a way to insure we know who you are, is important!

a few added vowels isn't as bad as the 'creative'
spellings. we know that there is a 'katherine, catherine, cathrine or kathrine' it's the
'kathyryne' faction that make it impossible for us to find you!

in the hospital there is a person who prepares a birth certificate. They fill out the form and a few days after the birth the parents are REQUIRED to sign it. Sometimes the mom will sign first and the dad has to come in later to finish the process.


I have seen people argue and almost come to blows over the name on that BC. It's funny and scary to think that two grownups cannot agree on a name!
sometimes a father will come down to sigh the BC and FLIP OUT because the name is spelled differently or changed, not our doing, but the mom's because she thinks she can slip one by the dad. we change it according to the father's wishes and sure enough we get a call back from the mom because the OFFICIAL COPY she ordered doesn't have her version of the kid's name on it!!!

[babolaypo65]

I used to teach a girl named Leeja. Hello. her parents combined HIS Lee and HER ja (from jane).
thats a tough one.
i dont remember her middle name, but it combined THEIR middle names.

[Chinadoll]

Know what you mean. My mother condemned me for life by spelling my name differently. I forever am telling people it's T-i-f-f-a-n-i-e not Tiffany. Finally got so tired of it that any paperwork I come across that spells it with a *y* I just ignore now.

[micki76]

Yep. And while on this subject, isn't it common knowlegdge that a feminine version of a name usually ends in an i? My name is MICKI not MICKEY. Kinda like Terri and Terry, or Randi and Randy, Danni and Danny. If I'm right there in front of you, you can see that I'm female, do not spell my name Mickey.

BTW - I am not a mouse and I'm not that fine either, and that stuff stopped being funny about 30 years ago for me.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by micki76


BTW - I am not a mouse and I'm not that fine either, and that stuff stopped being funny about 30 years ago for me.

beep beep- awwww- beep beep

sorry i just couldn't help it......

what did you expect from a gal named Toni Basil???

[carole]

My daughter's name MELISSA is not uncommon to say the least, but she is the only Melissa in her whole school, and most of the girl's I meet named that are in their early twenties, perhaps it was not a very popular name at the time she was born, but who care's we like it and so doe's she!

As I was born very near Xmas everyone assumes I was named Carole because of that, not so, my mother liked it because of a person named carole anne kennedy, so I got the Carole Anne bit, and I am fairly happy with it.

[Cincy'sMom]

Onmy softball team there are 3 of us named Amy, all spelled different (Amy, Ami and Aimee). Since I'm the new one to the team, I guess I lucked out the other two were already nicknamed from their maiden names...so it's Amy, Frenchy and Greeno

[Tonya]

I had a boss named Rowdy once. I thought it was a nickname for the longest time, but nope, his parents actually named him that.