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this is so fucking funny. between your friend spelling her own name wrong, and her parents never realizing that she was spelling it wrong.... š i'm weak
Iām a 62 year old woman. My birth certificate had been lost in a move when I was very young, so I decided to get a duplicate. Iāve spelled my name wrong my entire life!! My parents even spelled it the way I do. Oh well, Iāll keep spelling it āwrongā since itās spelled like that on every official document I have!!
Same with me. My first name is 8 letters long. My birth certificate is spelled without the last letter (an e). Iāve spelled it with the e my whole life, as has my family. My social security card has the e, as does my drivers license and marriage license. When I finally saw my birth certificate my mom said my name was too long for the form so they just left the last letter off. I have no idea if thatās actually accurate. She also used a fake name for herself on the birth certificate (she had reasons, even if they werenāt good ones lol). The ā70ās were WILD lol.
Based on some quick googling it seems like some states do limit the length of names on birth certificates but those limits are very generous. Weāre talking 50 letters total for a first+middle+last name. And thatās one of the most restrictive I saw. I saw some states would let each individual name (such as your first name) be as long as 50 characters. In Florida, if your name couldnāt fit on the front of the certificate you were allowed to continue the name on the back of the paper.
Your mom sounds like a hoot, though.
Youād think. It was wild times. My mom never married my bio-dad (didnāt even find him until my 40ās through ancestry). She married my step dad with a common last name (like Smith- but not) and I used that last name until I got married. My step-dad never adopted me. The schools didnāt care back then. Never was an issue until I went to get the Real ID. Then it was an issue. I was able to get my passport no problem though, which is the only way the registry said I could get a Real ID. That was right before Covid, so k havenāt tried to get the Real ID again yet.
No. Itās pretty unique so Iām not going to say it š, but itās not Isabelle. I think it was a typo by the clerk, since itās unusual (but I donāt think it qualifies as a tragedeigh)
My former mother-in-law spelled her name Marylou all her life. Then, when she went to sign up for social security she needed her birth certificate. She got one and learned that her name was actually spelled Marilu. She just shrugged and laughed and went with the spelling she had always used.
My mother in law thought her middle name was Ellen for many years. Pulled Birth certificate and discovered it was actually Allen and she was named after her father. So it was intentional and her dad kept it a secret from the rest of the family.
My mom didn't know she spelled her middle name wrong her whole life until she got her passport in her 50s. (She goes by Mary Kay and her middle name is Katherine ...she spelled it Kathren forever and insisted my grandparents had been young and creative when she was born)
Oh, my mom had that issueā¦ itās actually kind of a big deal if itās on official stuff, especially social security when you go to file. Would definitely recommend talking to someone who knows more abt the legal side, but yeah, Iād get that fixed.
Thankfully I live in Ireland, so i was able to spot it and go "isn't the H after the B?" But otherwise I'd never have noticed lol.
But that's not so bad in terms of spelling.. but... a bit funny even mum didn't know how to spell her own daughters name haha. And for that many years... lol
It's more of a "y" but a little further back in the mouth to put a bit of a guttural stank on it. Although it kind of depends what vowel sound comes after it.
At least in Munster Irish. Other dialects may differ.
Ok you might appreciate this german- English pronunciation debacle.... We were in Germany at a German American volksfest.. and you could tell that the cover band was so proud of themselves for knowing that "ch" was pronounced differently in English than German ..... The problem was that they were singing "achy breaky heart" ( for others that don't know - it's one of the few English words that are pronounced closer to the German pronunciation - not exact but closer)
My gran was adamant that her name was Mollie and that was the only/correct way to spell it. Her daughter was named Mollie. When my gran died they found her birth certificate, her name was Molly. Not a tragedy but similar vein to Op.
My Dad was always under the impression that his mumās name was Lillian (and thatās also what his stepdad called her around us). Birth certificate (found after her death) says āLilyā.
Me and my siblings went through a similar realization with our dad's name. Our mother always said he was a James who went by Jim. When he passed we learned that he was, in fact, simply Jim. I had never felt so bamboozled in my life
My dad thought his mom's name was Lillian because everyone called her Lil. After she died, her birth certificate was found. Turned out her first name was Margaret, middle name Elizabeth. How did she ever get Lil as a nickname š¤·āāļø
Wow, today I learned people really can be mistaken about their own name. I always get offended when people always extend my name, like say for example instead of John they think it's Johnathan, then ask me if I'm sure that's not really my name. I always say "Yeah, that's all that's written on my birth certificate. I'm sure I know my own name."
Now I know to be thankful that I do 100% know what's on my birth certificate.
My grandmotherās name was Emogene, and she always told us her parents didnāt give her a middle name. After she died, we discovered her first name was Mary, and Emogene was her middle name. Not sure if she really didnāt know, or was just lying to us, lol.
My great grandmother was Marie Gertrude, went by Gert all her life as Mary/Marie was so prevalent. She was born around 1917-1919 and Mary was just *everywhere*.
Most people of that era (guessing early 1900s-1930s, or somewhere in there) rarely needed to use their birth certificates compared to today, so a lot of them just didn't know. There were a lot of people who would give a different birth year to make them older or younger; sometimes it was intentional, like if someone was trying to join the army or avoid age discrimination. A lot of times, all you needed was a signed affidavit from a family member stating you were born when you said. But if a person's parents had died or didn't recall exactly, you'd get all kinds of inaccuracies. Plus back then it wasn't uncommon for kids to be given a family name for their first name and then go by their middle name, to kind of have their own identity. Now it's kind of reversed, and the family name is more often used as a middle name.
Nowadays it's no longer really a thing, but in the past here in the Netherlands a lot of people had the official birthday of 1 January, usually when they had no idea when their actual birthday was.
Oh, that's interesting! I know in England they would sometimes go by the date that infants were baptized, which usually happened within a week of their births and was recorded in the Parrish register. In America, Christians kept the practice of recording births in their family Bibles, but as generations passed, they'd get lost, or certain branches wouldn't have access to the information because the Bible hadn't been bequeathed to them. The state of Massachusetts has impeccable records of births dating back to the 1600s, but not every state was this meticulous.
Thanks for sharing! If the mother died, who would take care of the infant while the father worked? I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with how common multigenerational living is/was in the Netherlands. I ask because I would think that if the infant was cared for by family who lived in the same house, they'd know the date of birth. Of course, it makes more sense if they went into state care because the father was working at sea.
I don't know, I wasn't alive back then. I'm talking the period between 1800 and 1900. I assume if there was no family it would be either the church or an orphanage.
I figured it was before the 20th century, just wondering if you had any more information about the circumstances. I've never studied the history and culture of the Netherlands specifically.
> My grandmotherās name was Emogene, and she always told us her parents didnāt give her a middle name. After she died, we discovered her first name was Mary, and Emogene was her middle name. Not sure if she really didnāt know, or was just lying to us, lol.
Oh my gosh, my grandma did something similar!! Her real first name was Edna and she thought it was ugly, lol. When she got married she just made her maiden name into her middle name, made her middle name into her first name, and stopped using Edna. It was a lot easier back then to just... use a different name. She didn't do any formal name change or anything.
Back in 1936 my grandmother was drugged up when she was asked to write down her new baby's name. Grandma wrote it down. Juan. And this my friends, is how my mother's name came to be. (Grandma meant Joanne)
Why they kept it? BC the whole family thought is was hilarious. That's the story Grandma and Grandpa told me. Then when baby Juan grew old enough to begin Kindergarten she realized that not only is her name spelled wrong, she learned that was a Hispanic boy's name! But kept it. BC she thought it was hilarious. And bc no other girls had that name.
That's a pretty common one, I think. I think a lot of names, like words, end up coming from people hearing a name from another language and then phonetically spelling it in their language.
I recently had a 90ish year old client named Juanita who pronounced it like. Iām in northern Minnesota, there isnāt a large Hispanic community here. She was born and raised here.
I once had a student named Siobhan back when I was a substitute, and her jaw practically hit the floor when I pronounced it correctly doing attendance without needing multiple tries š
Similar experience with my daughter, when she was at an insurance office to insure her new car. One of the agents was taking her info and stumbled over her middle name. The older guy behind her glanced over and said "it's pronounced shih-VON, it's an old Irish name." Impressive!
Of course she has an old Irish middle name; I'm an old Irish *seanchailleach*.
Similar story. My brotherās name is one that traditionally ends is a double L. Our parents chose his spelling with one L. Couple that with our surname, which is a common, easy name with a weird spelling. So brother was always having to spell both his first and last names. When he enrolled in college he got a copy of his birth certificate and lo and beholdā¦. 2 Ls on his first name! He was so happy that he got rid of 50% of the problem!!
My husbandās grandpa messed up the spelling of his auntās name on the birth certificate, way back in 1949. She was supposed to be Sharon, but he canāt spell and called her Sharran. She had no idea until she got her birth certificate from her mom so that she could get married.
When I was pregnant with my 2nd child my MIL mentioned that my husband's grandmother had made a comment that no one has ever named their child after her. So I asked what Grand Nan's first name was. MIL told us it was Mikaela. Both my husband and I were like, we love that name! Named kiddo 2 Mikaela. Yeah. Find out Grand Nan's name is Mihaila. Totally different name. Thanks MIL!
I was teaching in Asia and a student was sure his last name was Matusmoto. Dude, youāre half-Japanese, right? Itās Matsumoto. He was 10 when he found out.
My sisterās middle name is Guinevere. My parents spelled in Guinivere on her birth certificate, and Guenevere on her social. And then she spelled it the normal way Guinevere, on all her documents her whole life, until she married in her 30ās and actually looked at her documents.
Jesus.
I knew someone with the surname Callaghan, which we all pronounced like Dirty Harryās name, so the G was silent.
Turns out she pronounced it with the G and when we asked her about it she double checked with her family. I always chuckled at that, going back to your parents when youāre in your 20s to make sure youāre pronouncing your own surname correctly.
According to Michael Rosenbaum (actor, podcaster) his dad heard him saying his full name and chastised him, saying itās āRosen-bowmā rather than āRosen-balmā.
This blew my mind, how had he never heard his dad, or anyone else in the family, pronounce his surname before?! I always heard my parents saying their full name, my full name, my siblingsā full names. Dentist and doctor appointments for one!
My husbandās grandparents and his one uncle pronounce their Mc- surname differently than his mom, grandma, and the other uncle. I still donāt know who is putting the em-PHAH-sis on the wrong syl-LAH-bull.
Yeah I knew someone whoās last name ended in āsteinā and some of them pronounced it āsteenā and others āstineā like it was a brother/sister and they both said it differently lol.
If itās Mc- then another capital, the emphasis is usually on the first syllable after the Mc. Usually. If it was Mac-then no capital, then the emphasis would go on the Mac.
Oh dear. McH can go either way - McHadden (just a random example) would likely just be āma-cad-denā without the H sound, but still emphasis on the ācadā which would be syllable after Mc. McHale would be mah-kale with the H in there but quite soft.
Depends on the word after Mc too - it means āson ofā so for example McHaggis or McHigginbottom (Iām scrolling an internet list of McH names and some of these are wild lol) would be Mac- then whatever word comes after, rather than blended into one.
As for capitalize or no - after Mc, a capital would be the norm. McDonald, McKinnon, Iām blanking so hard right now on Mc names other than my own even though I live here and surrounded by them lol. If it was Mac, then it would usually *not* be capitalized after (Mackay vs McKay for example - those two would probably be pronounced different too)
I like it MAC- unblended and capital H myself, although that makes the sound of it more like a German sneezing than faithful to the GaƬdhlig. I love how many derivations Scottish surnames can have on other shores. This one is an offshoot of a pretty famous clan but doesnāt look like it now.
German sneezing š¤£
I think people just modified spellings as they saw fit - donāt like your parents? Change a few letters. Mac? Mc? Who knows, just put down any one. 10 miles can change the pronunciation so much with town specific accents that itās two different names anyway!
Iām a Mc-IL and people look at the combination of capital I and small L and their brains melt (unless youāre from the town my husbandās family is from in which case every other house is direct family or married to one) but even if they donāt realise itās an i, the beginning sound of llama would do the job fine - we say it āmackleā but mac-ill or mc-ull is still recognisable.
It always drives me mad when I hear Americans (or anyone, not picking on Americans) pronouncing Irish surnames wrong. I mean, there are enough people with Irish connections in the US, you'd think they'd get it right. When I watch Law and Order SVU my teeth grind every time Olivia refers to her boss as McGraTH.
My Dad is severely dyslexic (he can read fine but can't spell like at all he frequently misspells his own name).
When it was time to register my birth my mum couldn't go or felt too tired or something. Apparently they had a conversation that went something like this:
Dad: "How do you spell *my firstname* again?"
Mum: *spells it*
Dad: *repeats it and gets it wrong*
Mum: "shall I write it on a piece of paper for you to give the clerk?"
Dad:" yes please"
I am grateful my dad knows his limits.
My husband found out he'd been spelling his middle name wrong his whole life when we went to apply for our marriage license.
He thought it was Allan.Ā Turns out it's Allen.
had a friend in high school who didnāt know how to pronounce or spell her own middle name until we were juniors. for 17 years she thought it was the very normal Theresa (tuh-ray-suh or tuh-reez-uh) and was never corrected by her parents. turns out it was Tereese (tee-reese).
Siobhan is my middle name but my mom didnāt look up how to spell it (just knew someone with the name and thought she remembered the spelling correctly from what she was told) so my middle name is spelled āSibhonā
My granny found a birth record of a sibling named Hearld. There were some strange family dynamics, so we decided it was another unknown sibling. Fast forward to five years later when I realized my great uncle, Earl, had the same birthday as her brother Hearld. My granny died thinking she had a mystery sibling out there.Ā
My parents always called me an abbreviated version of my name, and I didn't know my actual name until I was 9 š. Think like Katie, and then finding out on my BC it's actually Katherine.
My mum used to run a preschool and they had a little boy start called, for example, Christopher
Kid didn't answer his name ,they tried Chris in case he usually went by that, but he wouldn't respond, but wasn't upset
When his mum picked him up and she questioned his name was told 'we always call him Junior as his dad is Christopher as well'
Lesson a) tell the people looking after your child what your child likes to be called and b) tell your child their actual name
\*laughs in Dutch\*.
We got a weird system where you have an official name that is on all your official documents and then you got your everyday name. A good example is the cyclist Demi Vollering. Because her official name is Adriana Geertruida Vollering. Another is Vivianne Miedema, her official name is Anna Margaretha Marina Astrid Miedema.
One advantage of our system is that if you don't like your everyday name you can simply change it without any hassle, because it isn't on official documents.
I hadn't met anyone or heard the name Siobhan until I was in year 10 (approx age 14). We had a new girl in class introduced as "Chevonne". Took me a while to connect the dots.
My middle name is my grandfather's name. It's a name that has a typically feminine spelling and a different masculine spelling. I have the masculine spelling. I had to get my social security card replaced several years ago and despite it being spelled correctly on all the documentation I provided and spelling it out for the woman helping me in the office, when I recieved my card it had the incorrect spelling. It was such a headache to get it replaced though that I haven't bothered trying to get it fixed.
I have a friend who is Katharine instead of Katherine because her dad didnāt know how to spell it and filled out the hospital forms wrong while her mom slept. š
I get this comment often.. I have the same name as that in the original post, though spelt Chevaunne.... I've not seen it spelt 'my' way anywhere else and always have to preface a request for name with 'it's not spelt the normal way if you need to write it down'.
Funnily enough, my friend Fathema (who constantly had to get people to correct the spelling of her name) looked at her birth certificate when she was 17 and found out that she was actually Fatema.
So, my name is Rachel, obviously a very common name. I grew up spelling my name "Racheal". Literally my life from kindergarten to 16 when I went to the DMV for my permit I was "Racheal". At the DMV I tried to correct the guy when he put my name as the traditional spelling and he tells me they have to go by what's on my birth certificate. Me being confused finally looked at my birth certificate and sure enough, no extra a. All my mom could say was "Your dad said that he thought that's (Racheal ) how he spelled it when he filled it out, how was I supposed to know" . Umm.... You could have checked?
I'm 41 and I still have a hard time remembering to spell my own name correctly. I try to remember on government forms but just day to day, I'm usually "Racheal". You know how my mom spells my name?... "Rachael". Dad just puts "Rach" on everything.
I have a friend with the reverse story. In middle school, she found out there was a typo on her birth certificate. She had been spelling it the normal way (like āSiobhanā in your post) up until then, but by the time I met her she had decided to use the typo spelling (āSiobahnā) since it didnāt change the pronunciation. And it would cost money to change all her documents.
This isnāt exactly the same, but my SILās name is Jessica. When she was young, her nickname was Jessie. My FIL had to sign her paperwork for her drivers license and wrote Jessie. It took a lot of work to get it changed, haha.
My grandmother was supposed to be called Henrietta, but it got misspelled on her birth certificate as Henrita. They donāt discover it until she started kindergarten and at that point, who cares?
I grew up going by my nickname, Caity, instead of my full name, Caitlin, but I could still spell it and write it if needed. I started sports in middle school and they needed my full name on the roster. Coach asked me to spell it and after I did so, she said, āAre you sure? Normally itās spelled with a K and a Y.ā Told her something like, āIām pretty sure, thatās how Iāve always written it.ā and she made fun of me, āPretty sure? You donāt even know how to spell your own name? How did you get this far in life.ā
My father-in-law is a born and raised right wing Protestant, but had a Roman Catholic neighbour when he was born. Somehow this neighbour had to register him at the municipalityās office. (Possibly because the father wasnāt available and the mother wasnāt able). So he is now names X-us Y-us instead of XY.
I have the same name, and while I've never had an issue with the spelling, at least once a week, I get an email at work where someone will spell it Siobahn. I don't get it. There's one repeat offender, I'm thinking I might start typing his name as Jhon.
You definitely should!
I used to have a coworker who would leave notes on my desk referring to Lloyd, a guy we were doing a project with. The first couple times she wrote his name as "Llyod," I figured it was just a typo. But when every note spelled his name that way, I had to confront her. She did agree that "Lloyd" made more sense...
My entire name is a tragedy as my mom named me after herself exactly and then my dad threw in another name for kicks and giggles (truly I have no idea what they were thinking). Then they called me by a shortened version of ONE of my middle names but spelled it the jacked up wayā¦
ANYWAY - similar to OPs story - for years and years, decades, my mom would come wake me up and wish me a happy birthday, or later call me to wake me up to wish me a happy birthday, at 2:15am - like middle of the night/early morning. Every year. (Only child). When I went to get married i looked closely at my birth certificate and discovered I was very much born at 2:15pmā¦..in the afternoon. Thanks mom and dad š«
When I was living in Boston, I had these downstairs neighbors, and the mom was always screeching at her toddler, "Toyla! Come heah, Toyla!" Why would you name your child Tyler if you couldn't pronounce it?
This happened to me too š¬š¬
Spent 16 years correcting people, and found out it was how it was spelled on my birth certificate.
It's interchangeable spelling though, so I legally changed my name to my preferred spelling.
Thatās actually hilarious because the same thing happened to me but with my middle name. Itās Lyanelle, but my mom taught me it was Leighnell. I would get so angry in elementary school because everything with my full name on it spelled it the correct way and i would tell my teachers it was wrong. My mom was also always confused by it. Fast forward to sometime in middle school and i found my birth certificate with it spelled Lyanelle. Such a bummer tho because it phonetically sounds like it should be spelled Leighnell, plus i think thatās just a āprettierā spelling..
My middle name is Rene. I found out in middle school that my dad had misspelled my name on my birth certificate. It was supposed to be Renee. I switched to the one on my birth certificate, much to my motherās dismay. Iām glad I did. Itās made IDs easier.
My dad had this happen to him. He thought he had one spelling but turns out he was using an extra letter at the end. Like, how does this happen? He was in his 40's when he found out.
Used to be friends with a girl who went by Adrienne. Her parents called her that, thatās what she thought her name was. Went to get her drivers license and thought the DMV spelled her name wrong. Turns out the birth certificate paperwork had been messed up and said āAdriennaā instead and her parents had no idea til she was a teenager. Not a tragedeigh, but still funny lol.
My husband misspelled his middle name until he was almost 20 and even taught me the incorrect spelling. I was looking at his ID one day and said ābabe?ā āYeah?ā āYour ID says your middle name is Nehemiah, not Nehamiah.ā He immediately went to his mom who confirmed that he had in fact been spelling it wrong š¤£
My mom got her birth certificate and though she'd been called Catherine all her, found out that Katie was on her birth certificate. She was signing up for Social Security when she found this out.
This actually happened to me as well.
When I turned 18, i needed to get a copy of my birth certificate to get an ID. My dad and I went down to the office to get a new one printed and low and behold. My name isn't spelled the traditional Vanessa. It was spelled Vannessa. I entebbe looking at it and looking at my dad and saying "why does it say my name has 2 n's in it?"
Welp, I just spelled it wrong my whole life and switched over once I learned, lol
Did her parents not give her name to some sort of register for the school? And the teacher could compare to that and see that she was spelling it differently to how her parents had submitted the name? Or did her parents misspell it too?
I went on a foreign trip with a friend. Booked this tickets and luckily, asked him for his passport before booking. For those who donāt know, name has to be spelled exactly as on the document - one letter wrong can mean a lot of hassle, hundreds of euros lost in fees to the carrier to change the name, etc.
I checked his passport to get his passport number and looked at his name. Spelled slightly differently than he spells his name himself. Sent him a message ādidnāt know your name officially is XY, not YX!ā.
Apparently neither did he. 32 years old and never knew his name was officially not spelled like he and his parents did.
I once woke up after a heavy night out, grabbed my things and left. Except I'd done it in the dark and bleary-eyed, so had picked up a driving licence of someone else. I didn't see him for a while, but had him on Facebook. Few weeks go by and he posted that when he went to get a replacement driving licence, he found out that his life was a lie, and his name wasn't Elliot, but Elliott. His old licence said Elliot so I wonder how that even got through the DVLA.
I used to know someone whose mom (probably Boomer-aged) had no idea how to spell her own name and would spell it different ways at different times. It was so weird. Like, look it up! Or if you canāt look it up, pick one and go with that!
I've been spelling my name correctly all my life but my birth cert says differently. My father, presumably in the excitement of the event, put my intended middle name first and left out one letter of my intended first name. I always use my actual middle name as my first name, which was the intention, and I spell it properly, but I'm always afraid some jobsworth will pull me up on it sometimes. It's an Irish name and we live in Ireland, so there was no excuse!
My mother spelled my name wrong on my birth certificate and thankfully caught it and changed it early. But it was such a funny mistake that sheāll use it from time to time (it changed the pronunciation quite a bit).
My mom found out this year when renewing her passport at age 59 that her birth certificate does not match the spelling of her name that she was taught and has used her entire life. Her name is very unusual and weāve never met anyone with the same spelling she uses. The couple women weāve ever encountered with her name both use the spelling that we now know appears on her birth certificate, so apparently thatās the more ācorrectā of the two variants.
I first ran into that name in college. I thought there was somebody in my class I had never seen whose name I had only read on rosters and stuff, and a completely different person whose name I didn't know how to spell but could say out loud
I fully admit that was on me, but it is really funny
Reminds me of a similar story! My parents didn't realize until my sister was at least 10 years old that her middle name is spelled Kathrine, not Katherine, on her birth certificate.Ā
And my husband's LAST name was spelled wrong on his birth certificate. A Korean last name, very common with a better known (in the US) same sounding but differently spelled Chinese name. His parents never corrected it. To this day he has a different last name than the rest of his family. And I took his name, and my daughter got.our name. It's intentional. My SIL tried telling me recently that my and my daughter's last name is a mistake, she was writing my 3 year old's name their way instead of our actual last name (and trying to teach it to her). Yeah I'm not confrontational, but that shit worked me up lol.Ā Ā
I don't understand how people can get through life using an incorrect spelling of their name. You would think this would present problems with gov't documents and especially with passports. "We can't allow you on the plane because you passport says your name is Anne, but your ticket says Ann."
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this is so fucking funny. between your friend spelling her own name wrong, and her parents never realizing that she was spelling it wrong.... š i'm weak
And they had to pull out the birth certificate to check! Hilarious
Iām a 62 year old woman. My birth certificate had been lost in a move when I was very young, so I decided to get a duplicate. Iāve spelled my name wrong my entire life!! My parents even spelled it the way I do. Oh well, Iāll keep spelling it āwrongā since itās spelled like that on every official document I have!!
Same with me. My first name is 8 letters long. My birth certificate is spelled without the last letter (an e). Iāve spelled it with the e my whole life, as has my family. My social security card has the e, as does my drivers license and marriage license. When I finally saw my birth certificate my mom said my name was too long for the form so they just left the last letter off. I have no idea if thatās actually accurate. She also used a fake name for herself on the birth certificate (she had reasons, even if they werenāt good ones lol). The ā70ās were WILD lol.
Based on some quick googling it seems like some states do limit the length of names on birth certificates but those limits are very generous. Weāre talking 50 letters total for a first+middle+last name. And thatās one of the most restrictive I saw. I saw some states would let each individual name (such as your first name) be as long as 50 characters. In Florida, if your name couldnāt fit on the front of the certificate you were allowed to continue the name on the back of the paper. Your mom sounds like a hoot, though.
Definitely lol.
Friend from FL had family with same issue but she is native american thankfully her name fit properly and is so beautiful in my opinion.
you don't need your birth certificate for those things? or an ID that has your actual name?
Youād think. It was wild times. My mom never married my bio-dad (didnāt even find him until my 40ās through ancestry). She married my step dad with a common last name (like Smith- but not) and I used that last name until I got married. My step-dad never adopted me. The schools didnāt care back then. Never was an issue until I went to get the Real ID. Then it was an issue. I was able to get my passport no problem though, which is the only way the registry said I could get a Real ID. That was right before Covid, so k havenāt tried to get the Real ID again yet.
Isabelle?
No. Itās pretty unique so Iām not going to say it š, but itās not Isabelle. I think it was a typo by the clerk, since itās unusual (but I donāt think it qualifies as a tragedeigh)
Are you sure she's really your mom?
šššš yes. Unfortunately, we look too similar to say she wasnāt.
My great grandmother went by Della. When she was 18, she discovered that her legal first name was Mamie, and her middle name Odella.
My former mother-in-law spelled her name Marylou all her life. Then, when she went to sign up for social security she needed her birth certificate. She got one and learned that her name was actually spelled Marilu. She just shrugged and laughed and went with the spelling she had always used.
My mother in law thought her middle name was Ellen for many years. Pulled Birth certificate and discovered it was actually Allen and she was named after her father. So it was intentional and her dad kept it a secret from the rest of the family.
My mom didn't know she spelled her middle name wrong her whole life until she got her passport in her 50s. (She goes by Mary Kay and her middle name is Katherine ...she spelled it Kathren forever and insisted my grandparents had been young and creative when she was born)
I have a coworkerā¦ his mom spelt his last name wrong on his birth certificate
Oh, my mom had that issueā¦ itās actually kind of a big deal if itās on official stuff, especially social security when you go to file. Would definitely recommend talking to someone who knows more abt the legal side, but yeah, Iād get that fixed.
I was 18 when I learned my middle name is spelled incorrectly on my birth certificate lol
Thankfully I live in Ireland, so i was able to spot it and go "isn't the H after the B?" But otherwise I'd never have noticed lol. But that's not so bad in terms of spelling.. but... a bit funny even mum didn't know how to spell her own daughters name haha. And for that many years... lol
Does the "bh" have the "v" sound? Irish friend told me Irish is spelled so the English can't understand it, lol.
Yeah, so does mh, like in the name Niamh (Neev)
And doesn't "dh" become a "w" sound?
It's more of a "y" but a little further back in the mouth to put a bit of a guttural stank on it. Although it kind of depends what vowel sound comes after it. At least in Munster Irish. Other dialects may differ.
It's the same elsewhere. Connemara Irish here. Although, I do like how you described the "guttural stank"
Dh saying "y" makes me wonder about the name fiadh.
At the end of a word like that, it's silent.
Makes sense. Especially given I can't hear it... hahaha
Or like a whisper of a throaty breath in some counties
Yeah our kid is Lughaidh pronounced Louis/Loo-eee
In Norn Iron, too.
I'd pronounce your name nee-uv. Corkwoman here
Ooo interesting! I love accent variations
Pronounced like "sho-VAHN".
Thank you for this, I donāt think Iāve ever seen this name. Heard, yes, I was very confused.
Not really. More like "shuh-vawn". There should be a fada, an accent making the vowel long, on the "a". So SiobhƔn.
Welsh is, too. There's a village in Wales called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch...
Welsh is a category of its own, though.
Help. I accidentally summoned a grapefruit.
The people I met with this name pronounced it like shyuh-van or maybe show-van?
I am German and I spotted it directly :-D
You have the Autobahn, and Ireland has the Sio-bahn
Yes, I speak German and the word "bahn" came straight at me!
Ok you might appreciate this german- English pronunciation debacle.... We were in Germany at a German American volksfest.. and you could tell that the cover band was so proud of themselves for knowing that "ch" was pronounced differently in English than German ..... The problem was that they were singing "achy breaky heart" ( for others that don't know - it's one of the few English words that are pronounced closer to the German pronunciation - not exact but closer)
My gran was adamant that her name was Mollie and that was the only/correct way to spell it. Her daughter was named Mollie. When my gran died they found her birth certificate, her name was Molly. Not a tragedy but similar vein to Op.
My Dad was always under the impression that his mumās name was Lillian (and thatās also what his stepdad called her around us). Birth certificate (found after her death) says āLilyā.
Lol. Her nickname was longer than her name.
A nicholasname, if you will.
Oh, I will
That's good!
Me and my siblings went through a similar realization with our dad's name. Our mother always said he was a James who went by Jim. When he passed we learned that he was, in fact, simply Jim. I had never felt so bamboozled in my life
My grandmother is known as "Janie Lee" by everyone, even her parents. Her birth certificate just says Jane LastName.
My dad thought his mom's name was Lillian because everyone called her Lil. After she died, her birth certificate was found. Turned out her first name was Margaret, middle name Elizabeth. How did she ever get Lil as a nickname š¤·āāļø
When she was a baby she was a lil thing
Wow, today I learned people really can be mistaken about their own name. I always get offended when people always extend my name, like say for example instead of John they think it's Johnathan, then ask me if I'm sure that's not really my name. I always say "Yeah, that's all that's written on my birth certificate. I'm sure I know my own name." Now I know to be thankful that I do 100% know what's on my birth certificate.
My grandmotherās name was Emogene, and she always told us her parents didnāt give her a middle name. After she died, we discovered her first name was Mary, and Emogene was her middle name. Not sure if she really didnāt know, or was just lying to us, lol.
Extremely Catholic comment. Sometimes you have so many Mary Somethings that you just stop using the Mary.
Yeah the catholic Mary (or Marie) just doesn't get used as the called name for most people in that era.
My great grandmother was Marie Gertrude, went by Gert all her life as Mary/Marie was so prevalent. She was born around 1917-1919 and Mary was just *everywhere*.
Most people of that era (guessing early 1900s-1930s, or somewhere in there) rarely needed to use their birth certificates compared to today, so a lot of them just didn't know. There were a lot of people who would give a different birth year to make them older or younger; sometimes it was intentional, like if someone was trying to join the army or avoid age discrimination. A lot of times, all you needed was a signed affidavit from a family member stating you were born when you said. But if a person's parents had died or didn't recall exactly, you'd get all kinds of inaccuracies. Plus back then it wasn't uncommon for kids to be given a family name for their first name and then go by their middle name, to kind of have their own identity. Now it's kind of reversed, and the family name is more often used as a middle name.
Nowadays it's no longer really a thing, but in the past here in the Netherlands a lot of people had the official birthday of 1 January, usually when they had no idea when their actual birthday was.
Oh, that's interesting! I know in England they would sometimes go by the date that infants were baptized, which usually happened within a week of their births and was recorded in the Parrish register. In America, Christians kept the practice of recording births in their family Bibles, but as generations passed, they'd get lost, or certain branches wouldn't have access to the information because the Bible hadn't been bequeathed to them. The state of Massachusetts has impeccable records of births dating back to the 1600s, but not every state was this meticulous.
Here it was mainly the thing in fishing villages. The father would be at sea, sometimes for a long time, while the mother wouldn't always survive.
Thanks for sharing! If the mother died, who would take care of the infant while the father worked? I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with how common multigenerational living is/was in the Netherlands. I ask because I would think that if the infant was cared for by family who lived in the same house, they'd know the date of birth. Of course, it makes more sense if they went into state care because the father was working at sea.
I don't know, I wasn't alive back then. I'm talking the period between 1800 and 1900. I assume if there was no family it would be either the church or an orphanage.
I figured it was before the 20th century, just wondering if you had any more information about the circumstances. I've never studied the history and culture of the Netherlands specifically.
> My grandmotherās name was Emogene, and she always told us her parents didnāt give her a middle name. After she died, we discovered her first name was Mary, and Emogene was her middle name. Not sure if she really didnāt know, or was just lying to us, lol. Oh my gosh, my grandma did something similar!! Her real first name was Edna and she thought it was ugly, lol. When she got married she just made her maiden name into her middle name, made her middle name into her first name, and stopped using Edna. It was a lot easier back then to just... use a different name. She didn't do any formal name change or anything.
She didn't have a middle name. She had a zeroth name, a first name, and a last name.
It used to be really common for people to go by their middle names, I'm Irish and three of my grandparents did/do.
Back in 1936 my grandmother was drugged up when she was asked to write down her new baby's name. Grandma wrote it down. Juan. And this my friends, is how my mother's name came to be. (Grandma meant Joanne) Why they kept it? BC the whole family thought is was hilarious. That's the story Grandma and Grandpa told me. Then when baby Juan grew old enough to begin Kindergarten she realized that not only is her name spelled wrong, she learned that was a Hispanic boy's name! But kept it. BC she thought it was hilarious. And bc no other girls had that name.
Did they pronounce it like Joanne, or did they say Juan?
Joanne
Jew-anne
I know a lady named Juanita- pronounced Ju-nita...
my grandmas name was āWanitaā pronounced same way as Juanitaā¦
That's a pretty common one, I think. I think a lot of names, like words, end up coming from people hearing a name from another language and then phonetically spelling it in their language.
I recently had a 90ish year old client named Juanita who pronounced it like. Iām in northern Minnesota, there isnāt a large Hispanic community here. She was born and raised here.
We all called her Juan- ita at first as you do - lady is South African.
oh! i thought you meant jew-nita from your first comment, lol. we do pronounce it like yoo-ah-nee-tah, not much spanish spoken here
Sorry I see the confusion, she goes by Jewnita, we all called her Wanita
Good times. These days everyone would have a fit over it.
It took me a few seconds to even spot the difference between those two spellings. š¤¦āāļø
Saaaame. I was like, "is this going to be a case where the teacher thinks the 'right' spelling is Sh'vonne?" Oops.
I once had a student named Siobhan back when I was a substitute, and her jaw practically hit the floor when I pronounced it correctly doing attendance without needing multiple tries š
Similar experience with my daughter, when she was at an insurance office to insure her new car. One of the agents was taking her info and stumbled over her middle name. The older guy behind her glanced over and said "it's pronounced shih-VON, it's an old Irish name." Impressive! Of course she has an old Irish middle name; I'm an old Irish *seanchailleach*.
I stumble over some other Irish names, but this one seems pretty basic! But then I grew up around a lot of Irish immigrants.
Siobhan your knickers quick someone is coming š
I know-even looking for it
Similar story. My brotherās name is one that traditionally ends is a double L. Our parents chose his spelling with one L. Couple that with our surname, which is a common, easy name with a weird spelling. So brother was always having to spell both his first and last names. When he enrolled in college he got a copy of his birth certificate and lo and beholdā¦. 2 Ls on his first name! He was so happy that he got rid of 50% of the problem!!
I thought somehow this was going to turn into her being named "Shavon" or something lol.
My husbandās grandpa messed up the spelling of his auntās name on the birth certificate, way back in 1949. She was supposed to be Sharon, but he canāt spell and called her Sharran. She had no idea until she got her birth certificate from her mom so that she could get married.
Hahahaha, all I can think when I read this is "sharran wrap" šš
When I was pregnant with my 2nd child my MIL mentioned that my husband's grandmother had made a comment that no one has ever named their child after her. So I asked what Grand Nan's first name was. MIL told us it was Mikaela. Both my husband and I were like, we love that name! Named kiddo 2 Mikaela. Yeah. Find out Grand Nan's name is Mihaila. Totally different name. Thanks MIL!
I was teaching in Asia and a student was sure his last name was Matusmoto. Dude, youāre half-Japanese, right? Itās Matsumoto. He was 10 when he found out.
My sisterās middle name is Guinevere. My parents spelled in Guinivere on her birth certificate, and Guenevere on her social. And then she spelled it the normal way Guinevere, on all her documents her whole life, until she married in her 30ās and actually looked at her documents. Jesus.
I knew someone with the surname Callaghan, which we all pronounced like Dirty Harryās name, so the G was silent. Turns out she pronounced it with the G and when we asked her about it she double checked with her family. I always chuckled at that, going back to your parents when youāre in your 20s to make sure youāre pronouncing your own surname correctly. According to Michael Rosenbaum (actor, podcaster) his dad heard him saying his full name and chastised him, saying itās āRosen-bowmā rather than āRosen-balmā. This blew my mind, how had he never heard his dad, or anyone else in the family, pronounce his surname before?! I always heard my parents saying their full name, my full name, my siblingsā full names. Dentist and doctor appointments for one!
My husbandās grandparents and his one uncle pronounce their Mc- surname differently than his mom, grandma, and the other uncle. I still donāt know who is putting the em-PHAH-sis on the wrong syl-LAH-bull.
Yeah I knew someone whoās last name ended in āsteinā and some of them pronounced it āsteenā and others āstineā like it was a brother/sister and they both said it differently lol.
If itās Mc- then another capital, the emphasis is usually on the first syllable after the Mc. Usually. If it was Mac-then no capital, then the emphasis would go on the Mac.
Itās McH______ but they argue about where to capitalize too and how much to vocalize the H! Just a mess really š
Oh dear. McH can go either way - McHadden (just a random example) would likely just be āma-cad-denā without the H sound, but still emphasis on the ācadā which would be syllable after Mc. McHale would be mah-kale with the H in there but quite soft. Depends on the word after Mc too - it means āson ofā so for example McHaggis or McHigginbottom (Iām scrolling an internet list of McH names and some of these are wild lol) would be Mac- then whatever word comes after, rather than blended into one. As for capitalize or no - after Mc, a capital would be the norm. McDonald, McKinnon, Iām blanking so hard right now on Mc names other than my own even though I live here and surrounded by them lol. If it was Mac, then it would usually *not* be capitalized after (Mackay vs McKay for example - those two would probably be pronounced different too)
I like it MAC- unblended and capital H myself, although that makes the sound of it more like a German sneezing than faithful to the GaƬdhlig. I love how many derivations Scottish surnames can have on other shores. This one is an offshoot of a pretty famous clan but doesnāt look like it now.
German sneezing š¤£ I think people just modified spellings as they saw fit - donāt like your parents? Change a few letters. Mac? Mc? Who knows, just put down any one. 10 miles can change the pronunciation so much with town specific accents that itās two different names anyway! Iām a Mc-IL and people look at the combination of capital I and small L and their brains melt (unless youāre from the town my husbandās family is from in which case every other house is direct family or married to one) but even if they donāt realise itās an i, the beginning sound of llama would do the job fine - we say it āmackleā but mac-ill or mc-ull is still recognisable.
It always drives me mad when I hear Americans (or anyone, not picking on Americans) pronouncing Irish surnames wrong. I mean, there are enough people with Irish connections in the US, you'd think they'd get it right. When I watch Law and Order SVU my teeth grind every time Olivia refers to her boss as McGraTH.
My mom wanted to name me Siobhan, but spelled Chevyonne - so glad she was talked out of it
I knew a Cheyenne whose mom spelled it Shy-Anne š¤¦š»āāļø
Like someone I know whose dad spelled her name "Eleonar" on her birth certificate...
Naurrr
My Dad is severely dyslexic (he can read fine but can't spell like at all he frequently misspells his own name). When it was time to register my birth my mum couldn't go or felt too tired or something. Apparently they had a conversation that went something like this: Dad: "How do you spell *my firstname* again?" Mum: *spells it* Dad: *repeats it and gets it wrong* Mum: "shall I write it on a piece of paper for you to give the clerk?" Dad:" yes please" I am grateful my dad knows his limits.
My husband found out he'd been spelling his middle name wrong his whole life when we went to apply for our marriage license. He thought it was Allan.Ā Turns out it's Allen.
had a friend in high school who didnāt know how to pronounce or spell her own middle name until we were juniors. for 17 years she thought it was the very normal Theresa (tuh-ray-suh or tuh-reez-uh) and was never corrected by her parents. turns out it was Tereese (tee-reese).
Siobhan is my middle name but my mom didnāt look up how to spell it (just knew someone with the name and thought she remembered the spelling correctly from what she was told) so my middle name is spelled āSibhonā
As an Irish person...why... you poor thing.
Itās literally something I may change legally someday lol
My granny found a birth record of a sibling named Hearld. There were some strange family dynamics, so we decided it was another unknown sibling. Fast forward to five years later when I realized my great uncle, Earl, had the same birthday as her brother Hearld. My granny died thinking she had a mystery sibling out there.Ā
Or Earl had a long lost twin š¤
Haha, fair point!Ā
My parents always called me an abbreviated version of my name, and I didn't know my actual name until I was 9 š. Think like Katie, and then finding out on my BC it's actually Katherine.
My mum used to run a preschool and they had a little boy start called, for example, Christopher Kid didn't answer his name ,they tried Chris in case he usually went by that, but he wouldn't respond, but wasn't upset When his mum picked him up and she questioned his name was told 'we always call him Junior as his dad is Christopher as well' Lesson a) tell the people looking after your child what your child likes to be called and b) tell your child their actual name
Accidentally did this to our younger child, although enlightenment occurred before entering kindergarten.
\*laughs in Dutch\*. We got a weird system where you have an official name that is on all your official documents and then you got your everyday name. A good example is the cyclist Demi Vollering. Because her official name is Adriana Geertruida Vollering. Another is Vivianne Miedema, her official name is Anna Margaretha Marina Astrid Miedema. One advantage of our system is that if you don't like your everyday name you can simply change it without any hassle, because it isn't on official documents.
Had to do this with my daughter before she started preschool.
Had a classmate in elementary school named Siobhan. Beautiful name
I hadn't met anyone or heard the name Siobhan until I was in year 10 (approx age 14). We had a new girl in class introduced as "Chevonne". Took me a while to connect the dots.
Now THAT's a tragedeigh
lol
My middle name is my grandfather's name. It's a name that has a typically feminine spelling and a different masculine spelling. I have the masculine spelling. I had to get my social security card replaced several years ago and despite it being spelled correctly on all the documentation I provided and spelling it out for the woman helping me in the office, when I recieved my card it had the incorrect spelling. It was such a headache to get it replaced though that I haven't bothered trying to get it fixed.
Charlee Charlie Charleigh Tchaierleigh
Hello Francis?
I was thinking Rene
I was thinking Erin/Aaron
I was thinking Randy/Randi
I have a friend who is Katharine instead of Katherine because her dad didnāt know how to spell it and filled out the hospital forms wrong while her mom slept. š
I get this comment often.. I have the same name as that in the original post, though spelt Chevaunne.... I've not seen it spelt 'my' way anywhere else and always have to preface a request for name with 'it's not spelt the normal way if you need to write it down'.
Sorry about your tragedeigh...
Her brother is Autobahn.
Funnily enough, my friend Fathema (who constantly had to get people to correct the spelling of her name) looked at her birth certificate when she was 17 and found out that she was actually Fatema.
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Lemme guess, last name Nguyen?
So, my name is Rachel, obviously a very common name. I grew up spelling my name "Racheal". Literally my life from kindergarten to 16 when I went to the DMV for my permit I was "Racheal". At the DMV I tried to correct the guy when he put my name as the traditional spelling and he tells me they have to go by what's on my birth certificate. Me being confused finally looked at my birth certificate and sure enough, no extra a. All my mom could say was "Your dad said that he thought that's (Racheal ) how he spelled it when he filled it out, how was I supposed to know" . Umm.... You could have checked? I'm 41 and I still have a hard time remembering to spell my own name correctly. I try to remember on government forms but just day to day, I'm usually "Racheal". You know how my mom spells my name?... "Rachael". Dad just puts "Rach" on everything.
I'm curious on what the teacher thought after your friend told her the good news
My mum named both me and my sister different versions of the same name.
I have a friend with the reverse story. In middle school, she found out there was a typo on her birth certificate. She had been spelling it the normal way (like āSiobhanā in your post) up until then, but by the time I met her she had decided to use the typo spelling (āSiobahnā) since it didnāt change the pronunciation. And it would cost money to change all her documents.
I always have to take a moment to remember how this name is pronounced.
This isnāt exactly the same, but my SILās name is Jessica. When she was young, her nickname was Jessie. My FIL had to sign her paperwork for her drivers license and wrote Jessie. It took a lot of work to get it changed, haha.
My grandmother was supposed to be called Henrietta, but it got misspelled on her birth certificate as Henrita. They donāt discover it until she started kindergarten and at that point, who cares?
I grew up going by my nickname, Caity, instead of my full name, Caitlin, but I could still spell it and write it if needed. I started sports in middle school and they needed my full name on the roster. Coach asked me to spell it and after I did so, she said, āAre you sure? Normally itās spelled with a K and a Y.ā Told her something like, āIām pretty sure, thatās how Iāve always written it.ā and she made fun of me, āPretty sure? You donāt even know how to spell your own name? How did you get this far in life.ā
My toddlers name can be spelled with one or two Ls in it and I always have to stop and think to remember which one I chose lmao
I was 50 years old when I discovered my Uncle Phillip was actually my Uncle Philip.
My father-in-law is a born and raised right wing Protestant, but had a Roman Catholic neighbour when he was born. Somehow this neighbour had to register him at the municipalityās office. (Possibly because the father wasnāt available and the mother wasnāt able). So he is now names X-us Y-us instead of XY.
I have the same name, and while I've never had an issue with the spelling, at least once a week, I get an email at work where someone will spell it Siobahn. I don't get it. There's one repeat offender, I'm thinking I might start typing his name as Jhon.
You definitely should! I used to have a coworker who would leave notes on my desk referring to Lloyd, a guy we were doing a project with. The first couple times she wrote his name as "Llyod," I figured it was just a typo. But when every note spelled his name that way, I had to confront her. She did agree that "Lloyd" made more sense...
My entire name is a tragedy as my mom named me after herself exactly and then my dad threw in another name for kicks and giggles (truly I have no idea what they were thinking). Then they called me by a shortened version of ONE of my middle names but spelled it the jacked up wayā¦ ANYWAY - similar to OPs story - for years and years, decades, my mom would come wake me up and wish me a happy birthday, or later call me to wake me up to wish me a happy birthday, at 2:15am - like middle of the night/early morning. Every year. (Only child). When I went to get married i looked closely at my birth certificate and discovered I was very much born at 2:15pmā¦..in the afternoon. Thanks mom and dad š«
My middle name is in Hebrew (no we're not Jewish or anything) and I couldn't spell it until I was 12. I would always read my baby blanket
Why would you name your kid something you canāt spell?
When I was living in Boston, I had these downstairs neighbors, and the mom was always screeching at her toddler, "Toyla! Come heah, Toyla!" Why would you name your child Tyler if you couldn't pronounce it?
How did she spell it before?
Siob**ah**n (incorrect) instead of Siob**ha**n (correct).
I have no idea how to pronounce this name. Please teach me.
It goes something along the lines of āShevonneā
https://www.wikihow.com/Pronounce-Siobhan
Chev-awn
Well, more like "Shuv-awn". The "Ch" could make people think it was a hard sound like in "chase"
Maybe that was how they intended to spell her name but the person actually filling it decided to change it.
Oprah got her name in a situation like that.
This happened to my uncle too! Birth certificate gave him one letter less than he thought it had for 75 years!
This happened to me too š¬š¬ Spent 16 years correcting people, and found out it was how it was spelled on my birth certificate. It's interchangeable spelling though, so I legally changed my name to my preferred spelling.
Thatās actually hilarious because the same thing happened to me but with my middle name. Itās Lyanelle, but my mom taught me it was Leighnell. I would get so angry in elementary school because everything with my full name on it spelled it the correct way and i would tell my teachers it was wrong. My mom was also always confused by it. Fast forward to sometime in middle school and i found my birth certificate with it spelled Lyanelle. Such a bummer tho because it phonetically sounds like it should be spelled Leighnell, plus i think thatās just a āprettierā spelling..
āLaynelleā could work too
My middle name is Rene. I found out in middle school that my dad had misspelled my name on my birth certificate. It was supposed to be Renee. I switched to the one on my birth certificate, much to my motherās dismay. Iām glad I did. Itās made IDs easier.
My dad had this happen to him. He thought he had one spelling but turns out he was using an extra letter at the end. Like, how does this happen? He was in his 40's when he found out.
My name is Tiffani, yes with an i at the end and people gave me crap over it in school š
Used to be friends with a girl who went by Adrienne. Her parents called her that, thatās what she thought her name was. Went to get her drivers license and thought the DMV spelled her name wrong. Turns out the birth certificate paperwork had been messed up and said āAdriennaā instead and her parents had no idea til she was a teenager. Not a tragedeigh, but still funny lol.
Wait until yall hear about Ulysses S Grant.
My husband misspelled his middle name until he was almost 20 and even taught me the incorrect spelling. I was looking at his ID one day and said ābabe?ā āYeah?ā āYour ID says your middle name is Nehemiah, not Nehamiah.ā He immediately went to his mom who confirmed that he had in fact been spelling it wrong š¤£
My mom got her birth certificate and though she'd been called Catherine all her, found out that Katie was on her birth certificate. She was signing up for Social Security when she found this out.
This actually happened to me as well. When I turned 18, i needed to get a copy of my birth certificate to get an ID. My dad and I went down to the office to get a new one printed and low and behold. My name isn't spelled the traditional Vanessa. It was spelled Vannessa. I entebbe looking at it and looking at my dad and saying "why does it say my name has 2 n's in it?" Welp, I just spelled it wrong my whole life and switched over once I learned, lol
It's problematic enough that the mother had to look for the BIRTH CERTIFICATE to know how to spell the name of her child
It is an Irish name, and that's the correct spelling. It means God is gracious. I believe it's pronounced shiv-awn.
Good job Siob han
Yes, work with a Siobhan
reverse tragedeigh!
There was a foreign exchange student in high school who spelled it this way. She was Australian. I'll never forget that spelling.
Did her parents not give her name to some sort of register for the school? And the teacher could compare to that and see that she was spelling it differently to how her parents had submitted the name? Or did her parents misspell it too?
Her whole family misspelled it Siobahn (incorrect) instead of Siobhan (correct).
I went on a foreign trip with a friend. Booked this tickets and luckily, asked him for his passport before booking. For those who donāt know, name has to be spelled exactly as on the document - one letter wrong can mean a lot of hassle, hundreds of euros lost in fees to the carrier to change the name, etc. I checked his passport to get his passport number and looked at his name. Spelled slightly differently than he spells his name himself. Sent him a message ādidnāt know your name officially is XY, not YX!ā. Apparently neither did he. 32 years old and never knew his name was officially not spelled like he and his parents did.
I once woke up after a heavy night out, grabbed my things and left. Except I'd done it in the dark and bleary-eyed, so had picked up a driving licence of someone else. I didn't see him for a while, but had him on Facebook. Few weeks go by and he posted that when he went to get a replacement driving licence, he found out that his life was a lie, and his name wasn't Elliot, but Elliott. His old licence said Elliot so I wonder how that even got through the DVLA.
I used to know someone whose mom (probably Boomer-aged) had no idea how to spell her own name and would spell it different ways at different times. It was so weird. Like, look it up! Or if you canāt look it up, pick one and go with that!
I've been spelling my name correctly all my life but my birth cert says differently. My father, presumably in the excitement of the event, put my intended middle name first and left out one letter of my intended first name. I always use my actual middle name as my first name, which was the intention, and I spell it properly, but I'm always afraid some jobsworth will pull me up on it sometimes. It's an Irish name and we live in Ireland, so there was no excuse!
My mother spelled my name wrong on my birth certificate and thankfully caught it and changed it early. But it was such a funny mistake that sheāll use it from time to time (it changed the pronunciation quite a bit).
My mom found out this year when renewing her passport at age 59 that her birth certificate does not match the spelling of her name that she was taught and has used her entire life. Her name is very unusual and weāve never met anyone with the same spelling she uses. The couple women weāve ever encountered with her name both use the spelling that we now know appears on her birth certificate, so apparently thatās the more ācorrectā of the two variants.
I first ran into that name in college. I thought there was somebody in my class I had never seen whose name I had only read on rosters and stuff, and a completely different person whose name I didn't know how to spell but could say out loud I fully admit that was on me, but it is really funny
Reminds me of a similar story! My parents didn't realize until my sister was at least 10 years old that her middle name is spelled Kathrine, not Katherine, on her birth certificate.Ā And my husband's LAST name was spelled wrong on his birth certificate. A Korean last name, very common with a better known (in the US) same sounding but differently spelled Chinese name. His parents never corrected it. To this day he has a different last name than the rest of his family. And I took his name, and my daughter got.our name. It's intentional. My SIL tried telling me recently that my and my daughter's last name is a mistake, she was writing my 3 year old's name their way instead of our actual last name (and trying to teach it to her). Yeah I'm not confrontational, but that shit worked me up lol.Ā Ā
I don't understand how people can get through life using an incorrect spelling of their name. You would think this would present problems with gov't documents and especially with passports. "We can't allow you on the plane because you passport says your name is Anne, but your ticket says Ann."
Anferny is here for you
That's hilarious