I know a lady called Bridget. I can’t remember how she spells it, it starts with B and ends with T but has a load of random letters in the middle that definitely do not spell Bridget.

If you ask her she tells you the truth about her name. Her father went to register her birth on his own because her mum was ill. He could not spell whatsoever and just gave it his best shot.
 
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Ekkwhine

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Neveah is the worst of the worst. It can't be said without "its Heaven backwards". What a shit name.

Anything twee and double barrelled especially ones ending with Mae.

Logan. I just don't like it.
I think there’s 3 Nevaeh’s at school here. One of the mums has said to me at least once “it’s heaven Spelled backwards you know!”
I’m so tempted to introduce my kid as “this is Fred, it’s Derf spelled backwards you know” just to show her how wanky she sounds
 
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HarderFaster

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My mum used to teach in a really rough school in Liverpool and one of the kids was called Nefertiti, because her mum was doing the Egyptians at school when she fell pregnant and thought it sounded cool.

I don't think you even need to imagine how bad it sounded in a thick Scouse accent.
 
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Cáca_Milis

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Every generation has it's 'chav' names... In the 70's it was the likes of Wayne, Dwayne, Kevin/Sharon, Tracey, Sue... Now is Kai, Kayden, Jayden, Hayden, Chanese, Kandese, Jaundice, Tyler, .... You get the gist. HATE them ALL .. What's the bets we'll see some "Krona Vyress" type names next year?!
 
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Calalilly

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So in my salon today and a girl is talking about her children, She's three , two boys named Skyler and Billy Sailor and a little girl named China doll . Like why .
Poor kids
 
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roarke

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I've worked in dog rescue centres and never heard of this. Usually they're just given a name from staff suggestions or the dogs physical attributes/ personality.
That's such a nice idea to use the name them of those who found them 💕
Fast forward 20 years…”the dog didn’t have a name so we named her after the girl who brought him in. This is NEVAEH….,it’s hEaVEn SPellEd BacKWarDs” o_O
 
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TrollLolLol

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Hello ao the last time this thread came up you mentioned my son's name
Onicoren , it's pronounced "onic" "Oren" and was crafted using things that hold meaning to both me and his mum a willow tree is my favorite tree and onic comes from the proper Latin name for a willow "salix babylonica" and Oren cosen by his mum also trees tied to it's meaning and means light in Hebrew it's intentionally unique as I always thought a unique name was a pretty cool thing makes finding people talking about my son real easy too but that just a bonus lol and it's his little brother his mum's other son that has a regular name not his older brother
Don't worry I've not taken offence you don't have to like it just thought I'd share the background
Noones name holds any meaning anymore and very little effort other then "ooo that sounds nice" gos into naming a child nowadays I wanted to give my son something special something more then just a nice sound everyone I've spoken too has liked the name but it's rare people are honest with parents so I doubt that is completely true but yh just thought I'd fill you in on the background of his name Abit it grows on you everyone found it Abit funny to get there heads around at first but it doesn't sound like a bad name once you've said it a few times
Still sounds like a variant of Covid to me 🤷‍♀️
 
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SilentSue

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not sure if I posted this before but there was a baby at a baby group I used to go to about 8years ago - she was called ‘Angel’ but her Mum had spelt it ‘Angle‘ and it was spelt like that on all her documents etc 😆
Reminds me of when people write cringey tributes to people who have died - "Fly high wiv de angles" etc. I always imagine them floating in heaven surrounded by parallelograms and hypotenuse triangles.
 
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GlitteryKitten

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A girl I know with the surname West recently gave birth to her daughter...she called her Rose. I genuinely don't think she's realised 😬
 
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