BABY NAMES, what are your faves?

[Low C Sharp]

I also think you should give your kid the most obvious spelling, when there is one. You kid is not unique because you replaced an i with a y or the like.

Help me Lord, I cannot STAND the cutesy spellings! I am speechless when I see educated people pulling out "Alicyn" and "Brittni" and the like. What are they thinking? Do you really think your child won't come up with a better way of distinguishing herself? I even know a "Liisa" with two i's...in other words, absolutely everything associated with her appears to have been badly edited. No thanks.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

Help me Lord, I cannot STAND the cutesy spellings! I am speechless when I see educated people pulling out "Alicyn" and "Brittni" and the like. What are they thinking? Do you really think your child won't come up with a better way of distinguishing herself? I even know a "Liisa" with two i's...in other words, absolutely everything associated with her appears to have been badly edited. No thanks.

I'm with you. Both my husband and his sister have common names, which my in-laws decided to spell weird. His has 2 of the letters reversed from the norm. Even his middle name is common, with a weird spelling. It's a real pain to always have to stress the spelling during customer service/business transactions.

We had a near-crisis when his passport arrived with his name spelled the usual way...it had to be redone, weeks passed, and it finally arrived 2 days before a trip to Australia. We had to call our Congressman's local office to intervene with the passport office to get it expedited. My mother-in-law actually felt guilty about that.