Jynnasis is a great name for a new medication. No, wait, it has no "X" in it like all the others.

My 96 yo mother's name is Anne and everyone pronounced it Annie at the doctor's offices. Geeze. "The e is silent", I would say as I ushered her in. My small contribution to their education.

Mimi, you had me laughing with the Rocks-Anne comment which would of course be pronounced Rocks-Annie.

OMG...I just got the Rocks-anne (Roxanne)!!! Aye yi yi!!!

Seriously just saw this--Jessa Duggar named one of her kids Spurgeon. WTH? Reminds me of a cross between a fish and a sperm

I think I've already told ya'll about my niece, whose married last name is Land. Her daughter is named Allison Wanda. Nice alone, but paired with Land....

I googled the Welsh version of Jennifer and Wikipedia says it's Gwenhwyfar . Can't find Jennaphr.

My grands music instructors name is Karen Karen..but I think the last name is spelled Karin.

I see no problem with people naming their children as they please, its their kids, but I do think its fun to hear these names and giggle at some.

Giggle..did I really say giggle...I ment laugh haha

I've always liked the name Picabo Street. I think it was chosen a few years after her birth. I don't really enjoy common and overused names as much as some, probably because I have one and dislike it.

Years ago when I was in the hospital after giving birth to my son, I shared a room with a woman whose last name was Furr. She said she and her husband were thinking about naming their daughter, Opheya ! Maybe it is not spelled right but you get the drift, with the last name of Furr! I gave Amber the middle name of Star and she likes it. My sister said it is a pony's name.

Sue

Yes, I could see a pony called "Star", but it's one of my family surnames, too. (Sometimes a double 'r'.)

When I gave birth to my second daughter, my roommate named her daughter after a cartoon that her younger daughter watched. I don't remember the name of the cartoon, but I remember her talking on the phone and telling someone the name. Then saying, "What do you mean it's ugly? It's the name of the cartoon.....!"

I thought this was hilarious.

My last name is that of a cartoon character. Lol. Shows called Ahhh Real Monsters.

chisue

Yes, I could see a pony called "Star", but it's one of my family surnames, too. (Sometimes a double 'r'.)

Have you done any genealogy checking the Starr surname? Many generations ago, Starr appeared in my mom's tree. Going further back, it was originally Starbuck. hmmm? Coming forward a few generations, Belle Starr showed up. Coffee and outlaws...quite a combination to laugh about. ☺

Star+pony=MLP

One of my earliest jobs was as a clerk in a hospital, just as "different" names were starting to come into vogue (early 1970s). Part of my job was to fill out the form naming the child. Parents would often know what they wanted to name the child, but have no idea how to spell it. So, I would write various possibilities down on a piece of paper and they would choose the one they liked the look of.

Isn't the story about Oprah's name that she was supposed to be named Orpah (from the Bible) but someone wrote it down wrong?

Emory, yes that's correct. I know because I have a sister named Orpah and everyone calls her Oprah. Those that don't know her, that is, like when she goes for appointments and such.

There isn't anyone with a funny name in my family but names that would sure be hard to decipher on family tree. My husband's grandfather was William Luther (Luke) E----, his father was William (Bill) Luther E----, my husband was William (George) E----. Our oldest is William (Bill) Luther E----, his oldest is William (George) E----. his second is Andrew (Drew) Scott (after my second son) Peter (after wife's brother) E----. So along comes third son for whom they couldn't agree on a name. I, jokingly, said, You don't have one named after you, Bill" and they liked it, so he is William (Bubba - age 17, and it fits him perfectly as a football linebacker at a private high school) Luther E----! He aspires to follow in his father's footsteps and go to West Point where I would think he will become Bill. To add to the confusion, prior to children they had a bassett hound named Willie. Bill was military and in the computer system there were 4 William E----'s and a dog named Willie. This hurts my head to write so scroll on by if it does the same to you!. And I promise no one in the the family is married to a cousin or has any other mental deficiency, lol.

La - a

For the bewildered it's Ladasha.

When DH and I were first dating we had a friend with a GSD. I liked the name and said if I ever had a DD I would name her that. When our DD was born we named her after that dog. LOL But is is not an oddly spelled named and it is a human name. It served her well, both in school and professionally.

I think a terrible name to saddle a girl with is "Siobhan". It's Irish. Why give a child a problem name?

It is pronounced Shivahn.

My son in laws family tends to name the males with family names. DD and he broke the mold when their son was born. Guess DD convinced him that each child should have his or her own name. She had an ace up her sleeve because she let him name DGD from their list. They did gave DGS the same middle name as my DH's middle name.

jae_tn2 ~ our family has a trend like that, although not quite as confusing. Every generation has at least one James and one Ben. I had a great grandfather Ben, a grandfather James (Jim) and and Uncle James (Jim). Jim has a son Ben. Another branch has James and Ben. I have a second(?) cousin (my cousin's kid) named Ben.

"Did you hear from Cousin Ben?"

"No, I thought he was out of town."
"No, that's your Cousin Ben. I mean my Cousin Ben. He's with Jim."

'I just saw Jim, he's not with Ben."

"No, wrong Jim."

..... :)

I knew a little girl in grade school with an unusual name and she was teased mercilessly with awful words that rhymed with her name. The class bully soon picked up on this. Eventually her friends gave her a sweet nickname and that stuck so well that most did not know her real name as a teen or adult. Thank goodness for nicknames!

I don't really care how anybody spells their name but feel sorry for teachers who have to get a whole new crop of names right every year.

In OP... if that's supposed to be "creative" spelling of Genesis... not even phonetically correct. Picky, yea... that would be pronounced GINesis.

Years ago, had a student whose mother insisted his name was Farad... but it was spelled Fard?? Imagine how HARD it was not to say anything about that?

How about Sacoya??

For those saying why does it matter? Well trying being a nurse in an office or receptionist and you have no idea how to pronounce the person's name. You give it a fair shot and then they get angry that you said it wrong. Really? How could we possible know how to pronounce something you or your parents made up.

Tulsa -- The "Star(r)(s)" family is one I have not touched. All my others were in the US almost from the Revolutionary War. Only my maternal grandmother was a 'late-comer'. Grandmother's marriage certificate spells her name "Sterds"; I need an interpreter of brogue!

Back to odd names -- and those doing the naming -- I see death notices where it's clear that an immigrant's legal name in America is not his actual surname, but some mistaken interpretation entered as his name due to the language barrier at U.S. Immigration.

Many immigrants used to change their names or had them changed for them when they went through immigration. I had a friend when I was in school in NYC who was from Polish origins. Her father was in the insurance business and felt a simpler name was easier on the phone, thus Jawrerosky (I think this was how it was spelled) became Jason. They were very proud of their Polish origin, but also practical.

Raises hand. I have a common name with a unusual spelling. Aprile pronounced April. The e is silent. First off it is the name I have always had. I did not choose to spell my name that way. Mother told me she put the e on it because in french the e signifies feminine even though my first name is not french at all, My last name is french but I got that when I got married lol my maiden name is super common.

I feel sorry for people trying to pronounce it. They call me April E, Aprell e. A prile. As soon as they start I wave my hands in hopes to help them from having to pronounce it wrong.

I'm remembering a friend from years ago who said if she had a boy she was going to name him Trevor, but she was going to spell it Trever. I said, "Why?? His whole life, everyone will spell his name wrong." But she wanted to be different. Fortunately, she had a girl. :-)

I knew a man whose last name is "duck". You guessed it........His mom named him Donald. True story.

It's still beyond me how supposedly loving parents could saddle their children with some of these names.

When I was in college (East Stroudsburg State... then University) in the PA Pocono Mountains... we had a Dean whose last name was Judy... Dean Judy. He had a son and a daughter. Son's name... Dean Judy. Daughter's name Judy Judy! I kid you not!

I hope Judy Judy's middle name is Judy, so she can be like the line in the Cary Grant movie where he says Judy, Judy, Judy.

we have two families locally where one husband is Ernest Ernest and the other is Wallace Wallace. Go figure.

Starr is a family surname of our family, my sister got it for her middle name and my other sister got another family surname, Hart, as her middle name. Unfortunately or fortunately for me, I was named after both my grandmothers and my first name was one I hated, sounded like an old lady mixed with a version of a man's name, Norma.

I LOVE the name Norma...love it. Its very classy.

Many years ago I worked for a loan company taking applications, mainly for soldiers from a nearby Army post. One of them whose name has stayed with me all these years is Clodabaldo Grillo. Who ever thought up a name like that as a first name to go with that unusual last name........

I know I mentioned this somewhere but my Step Fathers last name is Cenis..poor guy was made fun of horriably when in the service many moons ago.

jae_tn2 Have you tried googling that name? Pretty interesting, both first and last.

No but I sure will now, lol. Thanks, I think!

Olychick - I tried it using just the names I provided but came up with nothing dealing with out family. Then with added surname and found some interesting on WL Sr but nothing for WG that matched.

A friend named her DD Christmas Carol. I had a patient named Epiphany Tamburino, 50 years and I remember him. Often thought he probably would not be able to write his name till third grade.

I used to work for a woman named Bertha Hussey. Hussey was her married name. I never asked what her maiden name was.

Hussey is a very common surname around here.

One of my mother's brothers (born in the 1920's) was named Cleophus. He hated his name. He complained that his mother didn't even give him a middle name to use so he was stuck with Cleophus. He was my favourite uncle though! He was so funny and we loved it when he came to visit. We called him Uncle Cleo or Uncle Cle.

jae_tn2, sorry, I should have been more specific...I didn't find him but did find that first name, so it's not a made up name like I surmised, and also the last name but not together. The one that comes up most often is Clodosbaldo Russian looking like possibly being some crime connections in Bolivia or Uraguay (but I don't read Spanish and google translate wouldn't work). Not that I thought it was your guy, just that the name is an actual name.

I'm remembering a friend from years ago who said if she had a boy she was going to name him Trevor, but she was going to spell it Trever.

Actually, Trever is a well accepted variant form of Trevor. I prefer Trever to Trevor. A friend named her son Trev--that is much less common.