Has anyone else come across a name—or a spelling of a name—which fills you with extreme, disproportionate fascination and dread? Like it’s so bad you can’t comprehend the parents’ choice of THAT NAME rather than the ten trillion other possibilities out there?
Mine are:
Andruw (pron. [name_m]Andrew[/name_m])
Kaylou (pron. [name_f]Kayla[/name_f])
This is not the same thing as a name that makes you want to pull out all your hair with frustration, such as (for me) [name_f]Miracle[/name_f]. It’s a different feeling altogether.
There was [name_u]KaCy[/name_u] ([name_u]Casey[/name_u]), Aylissa ([name_f]Alyssa[/name_f]), and MaKla ([name_f]Michaela[/name_f]) in my graduating class. Yikes!
Those are awful! MaKla…:eek::eek::eek:
My cousin and her children’s names: [name_f]Tesa[/name_f] (As in [name_f]Tessa[/name_f]. I don’t know why, but the missing ‘s’ just really bothers me), [name_u]Camren[/name_u] ([name_u]Cameron[/name_u]), Kennidie ([name_u]Kennedy[/name_u]), Kiyah ([name_f]Kaya[/name_f]), and Cirra ([name_f]Kiera[/name_f]). There’s also a [name_m]Caleb[/name_m] in there as well, but I think that one’s actually spelled correctly.
I met a little girl named [name_f]Feenix[/name_f] once, pronounced like “phoenix”, which I think was probably the worst one I’ve encountered. I find it’s even worse when it’s a word name that’s been misspelled.
Its name combos that I cringe at-well creative spelling i just pretend does not happen. In this case all occupational names were used. T y l 3 r (spelling y helps but its still sounds the same and surname S l @ t e r and I believe the 2nd child must have been given one parents surname only other wise its C @ r t e r B @ k e r - … Now I feel terrible, and will try not to judge others again!
[name_f]Camran[/name_f] on a girl. I cannot get over the urge to just say “[name_u]Cam[/name_u]-ran” rather than “[name_u]Cameron[/name_u]” (how she pronounces it). It’s really maddening.
Misused umlauts and accents always make me die a little inside.
And I mean both, putting them in places they don’t belong and using them but not pronouncing the name correctly.
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Sir recently shot to the top of this list for me. Like, really? I knew Beyoncé had a huge ego, but sheesh. What a joke.
I saw a magazine story about a girl whose parents had called her KVIIIlyn instead of [name_f]Katelyn[/name_f] (using the roman numeral VIII to make the ‘ate’ sound) which is pretty awful.
Then there was this… Kharringtyn-McKhynleigh Khaybryn [surname]. [name_m]Little[/name_m] sister to Khayleigh-Huntyr [name_f]Madisyn[/name_f] [surname] and [name_u]Casey[/name_u] [name_m]Jr[/name_m].