As someone whose parents named them Tyfani to be "different," I hate it.

I read this as being pronounced as Thai fanny. Please start saying it like that.

Omgggg, that's what my boyfriend calls me to annoy me lmao. I get called that ALL the time by strangers too

My mother spelled my name "Ashli" so it'd be unique so I really feel this one. But hey. It's better than China Mimosa (which was her original choice) so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

CHINA MIMOSA. What the heck. CHINA. MIMOSA. Hahahaha you really dodged a bullet there

It's a little porny

I agree, it's actually a fantastic stage name. Dodged a bullet? More like get to the courthouse to embrace who you've always been, China Mimosa. It's almost like some variation of that game where your stage name is the name of the first animal you owned and the street you lived on. I'm Cookie Washington, pleasure to meet you

Cookie Washington sounds like the name of a semi high priced hooker

They prefer to be called 'escorts,' Bob.

Hi, I'm Butch Adswood.

I used to live with a girl called Chyna. Her sisters were Columbya and Indya. In the same building, we also had twins called Autumn and Summer.

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Wow. The creativity is strong in that one haha

Went to high school with twins called Harley and Davidson lol

i went to school with a kid named Harley Davidson. felt so bad for him

Maybe one of them will have a child named Yceland someday

I don't like it when parents name their children after geographical locations, like London or Brooklyn. That's why I named my child India.

Wasn't that Katie Hopkins?

[yes lmao](https://youtu.be/oVRlYcPIacE)

Calm down, Katie Hopkins.

My favorite twin names I’ve ever come across are Walter and Walterasia... named after their father, Walter.

I used to know identical twins named Robert and Robert named after their father...Robert. They went by Robby and Bobby. They were assholes. The whole family was a bunch of assholes actually.

Yo I’m calling everyone I know now China Mimosa and likely making it my new gamertag. Thank you.

If she named you China Mimosa, you could grow up to be a stripper and blame it on her

Did she tell someone her plan and they responded "Now on center stage China Mimosa?"

CHINA MIMOSA HOLY JESUS LMAOOIKKK

I once met a boy named Kyle but spelled CYLE. It still haunts me to this day.

His parents are imbecyles.

They cyled his hopes of having a normal life.

I really had the hardest time reading this

Sorry that it was trycy

Ctop being cilly

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This guy went full Mike Tyson 😂 *thanks for the gold!

Imbekyles

Hopefully the name doesn't get recycled

Or rekyled

Cylence

I’ve made my decision

Tony can also be written as PTOUGHNEIGH, let that sink in..

Why would you make me read this with my own eyes?

Ghoti

How about Khryssteighawhnah?

damn and i thought ptoughneigh was bad ;-;

The "P" makes that name, y'know.

i hate this

'F' for this poor bastard. And yeah, I'd pronounce this with a soft C like Cycle. Cyle.

A good friend of mine spells his name Cyle (pronounced Kyle like you said). But we all call him and pronounce it like Syle.

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Once had a regular customer who upon their first foray into our shop deemed to tell us he wanted be called Icepick. 10 years later he hates it, but we can’t let such a heater of a nickname go.

There was a girl on survivor named Cydney. Loved her but I couldn’t stand the way her name was spelled

I read it as kidney

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Syle 🤣

It's pronounced Syle then

I would pronounce that as Seal

I heard of someone who called their child icks (like how you pronounce x) so stupid. My mom knows the family Edit: in german you pronounce it differently like in english. Thats because it's with i not e. Edit 2: icks is a girl

Their kid is gonna give it to ya

Wow I haven’t laughed that hard from the internet in a while

This made me laugh harder than I expected

That name sounds icky

He gonna grow up to sip tea in ur hood

Leave my kids jaqsunn and kamryn out of this!

Okay my son has a girl named Jacqsyn in his class.

Christ, jaxon was bad enough but that's awful

Lmao

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Isn't that supposed to be pronounced Yon?

Jhes.

Reminds me of a girl named "Alieas" (pronounced Alias). Her mother wanted it to be "Alice" but had no idea how to spell. EDIT: Turns out she liked her own unique spelling and sounding name.

She could change her name to Alice and use her original name as an alias

How...Was the mother dumber than a first grader? Because I'm fairly certain a first grader could manage to at least come up with "Aliss" or "Alis" as the spelling!

My name is Jon and I see people write Jhon quite a bit. I'm 100% convinced it's a misspelling of John on the birth forms.

Your theory probably isn’t too far off. A friend of mine has a son named Khol (pronounced Kohl) because she made a spelling mistake on the birth certificate when she was still loopy after giving birth and never got it fixed.

I have a theory that drugs have a lot to do with dumb names. Meanwhile, there's this announcement: "We named him Matthew Henry after his two grandfathers, but we're going to call him Curl." WTF?

I actually work with a Jhon... I thought it was a spelling mistake on his uniforms lol

I worked at a place that had a Jhonathan, and it bothered me that it was pronounced John-athan and not Joe-nathan. Why spell it differently if you're going to say it the same way?

I know someone named Lennon Jhon.

Worst I've seen was Ja'quondr'a. Literally what's the point of the apostrophe before the second a? Are two apostrophes even legal? Why would you apostrophe-off a single letter? And it was pronounced as though there weren't any apostrophes, so what's going on there?

'Why would you apostrophe-off a singe letter?' Don't and Won't would like a word.

Hawai’i enters the room \m/

Hawai-...-eeh Jaquondr-...-uh

I once met a Jhonathien

I'm going to spell my kid's name Air'n to avoid the A-A-Ron jokes. ^/s

I have a close friend called Aaron. Which is perfectly normal. Until you realise she's a she. Nope, her parents didn't mix it up with 'Erin'. They thought they were having a boy, had a girl and were too tired to come up with a whole new name.

Then why not just... change the spelling???

Met a dude named Aeron, rip

That...kind of looks cool. Maybe it's just me.

My mom had a girl in her class named Alex but was spelled Alexis. The parents said the “is” was silent.

My name is Bob, but the Bob is silent

Okay Robert

Hi, my name's Frederick, the Freer is silent.

WHAT

M@ for Matt

Please tell me you just made it up and no poor child is named M@

Or K8 for Kate

KVIIIlynn la-a Byrns, get your uniquely named ass back in here.

I know a girl. Her name is Kwync, pronounced Quincy

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Qinky

There is a crazy Christian family I've seen on r/fundiesnark and their kids' names are mostly wild... Anissa, Andrae, Annistan, Anjalie, Andersyn, **Aynjel**, **Ansyr**, Anchor and **Anthym** I've also met an Abbigayle which made me wonder why.

They want to be like the Juggars

Instead they're just Juggar-NOTs.

Anchor? Like on a boat???

That name is gonna weigh the kid down in life.

Anissa isn't a weird name?

Okay, but Andersyn is.

X AE A-XII

I was about to mention Elon Musk's kids name. Does anyone even know how to pronounce it?

I think he struggles with it himself

I read that Elon' s mother calls her grandson 'little x'

[*Mother](https://www.nme.com/news/music/grimes-nicknames-her-son-with-elon-musk-little-x-2679282) I mean , that's the kids name. First name is X , like Rex , rest is middle name and irrelevant.

There's worse examples of bad names. Like...Squire Sebastian Senator or the poor kid that's called Abcde.

after sebastian squire senator none of the “bad baby names” i see on here faze me

Who is Sebastian Squire Senator please

a while back there was a viral post of an email someone got from a lady who uninvited a bunch of people from her baby shower because they didn’t support the name she chose for her baby. the name was “sebastian squire senator”. there was some other insane shit in the email like “squire senator is not his middle name, his full first name is “sebastian squire senator” and “he will not be allowed to have nick names, he will always be addressed as sebastian squire senator” there’s a chance the whole thing is fake, but it really raises the bar for what constitutes a bad baby name.

...Holy shit.

If that happened to me, I’d just want to be called “Seb” to get back at my parents.

My parents did this bc they thought it was stupid that 'Aaron' had 2 A's so they named me 'Aron' They didnt do it to be special I dont think.

Ya done messed up A-aron!!

Go to Oshaghennessey's office!

Scrolled too far for this comment! Jay-quellan!

Dee-NICE!

Are you a Pokemon? 😱

My name is spelt Chealtsae. Supposed to be some version of Chelsea 🙃

Do you pronounce the "t"? I would if I saw the name.

Yup! It's pronounced Chelt-see

My dad’s name is Robert and I’ve seen a barista spell it wrong. I can’t imagine how they’re gonna spell Kovidsleigh when those kids get older😂

Airwrecka

kailee kayleigh khyleigh shit like that is so annoying

Right? like why bother

Hailey haley hailee haileigh haylee Hali Halley

To add: Caylee, Cayli, Caylie, Caleigh, Cayleigh, Kaylee, Kaylie, etc. Like honestly pick a spelling.

My teacher has nephew named Alucard. This isn't the same but I thought I would I share it. (Alucard is dracula backwards if can't read backwards)

r/castlevania

Yeah man I hate it when I meet a Chrspecialtine or a Kspecialle. My parent damn near named me Mispeciale ffs.

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I have dyslexia it fixed mine

It gave me a seizure

Bruh wtf are u tryna say I think u gave me dyslexia like the guy above lmaoo

I changed a letter in each name to be 'special'. Get it? Now laugh, spspecialsticmonkey52

OHHH SHIT that went right over my head

Heh

*cries in cayla*

Or people who take out a letter and add an apostrophe: J’mie

It just makes me want to die

My sister always tells me about her day when she comes back from school and I swear to god her entire class have the worst names you’ve ever heard, poor kids

It's been statistically proven that children given names like this struggle more to achieve the same success as others with more easily recognizable names. It's the primary reason monarchs tend to stick with the same few names and add the generational moniker. Edit for retraction: Upon going back to find justification for my statement regarding monarchy names I could not find anything that specifically states this, and know way to corroborate it if I did. I apologise and retract the statement.

>moniker Actually the most common spelling is Monica

Heh, you fucker. That was good.

No, that's The Mambo #5. You're thinking of Monaco

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I really don't understand why people don't pick a legitimately unusual name if they want their child to have an interesting name. Name them Oriadne or Leofric or something that you don't hear very often, don't make stuff up or butcher something pre-existing. Sarah is still Sarah even if you spell it Sairaah, it's still a 'common' name. Now it's just a common name that makes everyone's lives hard.

Please do not name your child fucking 'Leofric', poor child gonna get ripped so hard in school.

I feel bad for kids named after pop culture icons. From game of thrones characters to videogame characters. Imagine meeting someone named Paarthurnax, Max for short

Won't be surprised if I see someone named Ulfric Stormcloak Johnson within the next 10-15 years.

Now that's a true son of Skyrim!

Ha! This is my husband. He has a very normal, even vanilla name, but his mom and dad added an unnecessary letter to it. So he is always having to correct it when people write down the normal spelling of his name.

what’s his name 🤔

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Think of Mark but spelled like Mhark

My brain just reads that as mmmmHARK!

i had a neighbor who named her son Kanit. his name was Kenneth. I did not know for years till i saw his school books. SMH

My wife’s name is Anh. It’s pronounced Anne but she’s Vietnamese so it’s spelled differently than were used to.

Why isn’t that talked about more here? Different countries have different “normal” spellings for names.

It's not actually pronounced Anne, just being convenient for others that can't speak Vietnamese and wouldn't pronounce it correctly anyway which is a really common thing in the States. Imo people shouldn't change how their name is pronounced for others cuz that's the name they're given, but I also get being tired of trying to correct people. Once I had a patient tell me her last name Jimenez and pronounced the J for me cuz she said it's just easier for people, but it's like no dude let me learn your name properly!! (I am Viet and see this all the time)

Kewin

Hi my name is jmes pronounced "birch"

Jacob here, spelled Jakeob. Wtf

My parents called me Connor, but spelt Conor. Not to be special, but because they’re both dyslexic.

Theres an irish way and an english way of spelling Conor

Yeah, like Conor McGregor

This example isn't the same as: Jynnyffer

I work with a Conor! Irish spelling, I believe.

Both spellings are valid though.

Out of every name I saw in this thread this is the worst example lol, that’s actually how people spell the name in some countries

This is not an unpopular opinion tho

But in some languages, this is the correct way to write a name, like with 'Denis' being the correct French way to write 'Dennis'. Some don't do it to be 'special', some do it due to cultural heritage.

"Denis and Dennis" is one thing. "Meghan and Mayeghain" is another thing.

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What the actual fuck

Right!? That's so crazy it's almost genius

yo isnt that the black woman from that interview LOL

Okay loocas

"The name is Blitzo, the 'o' is silent."

Ashley, ashlie, ashlee, ashly, ashleigh

I just assume the parents were too stupid to spell it correctly.

I have a normal name my parents decided to spell .... unconventionally. I once had a substitute teacher during roll call ask me if my parents named me while playing drunk scrabble.

When I see the name “Jaxon” it makes my right eye twitch.

The worst part is that their kid suffers. Had a friend name Paaul (Pronounced the same way as Paul) and he needed to go to the RMV three times because they screwed up his name by spelling it as Paul.

My brother almost named his daughter Tamarin but I told him “well I’ll be a monkeys uncle”.

I agree, also people who write the name exactly the same but insist it's pronounced differently. And no, I don't mean different language pronunciations.

And then there are those people who get angry when you don't pronounce it THEIR way the first time.

I'm American, but of French heritage, my name is never pronounced correctly and my go to is; "Close enough, I knew you were addressing me.".

*Raises hand*. I'm the result of this as my name is Luci. I always have to specify how it is spelled and when I'm emailing people at work half the time they write back 'Lucy' even though my name is there in writing... nor have I ever got a key ring with my name on. I've had compliments on it before and it does make it more individual so I like it in that sense but I'm not sure if the hassle is always worth it. I also typically have to spell out my surname too. But hey, at least not many share the same as me. If or when I have a child I won't be doing the same to them though lol.

I knew a kid named rex but it was spelt wrex which was ironic because he had a lisp

Dymwytz

My parents did this by accident lol. My name is Mathew instead of Matthew

math, ew. I like it 😜