In 2009 I worked with a girl who had a baby boy. Named him Blazing LaBlunts. I thought that was the wildest name I would ever find in the wild, I was wrong. Got an MLE (Emily), RicE (Ricky) and an A-DC (Odyssey). I have lost all hope for humanity.

Idk if this is purely for english names only, but i'm sharing this anyways even though i'm not brittish nor american.

So i'm Javanese (from Indonesia, not Japan btw) and my name should be fine and all because it came from old leather-puppet theatre story, that lot's of people throughout time used the names there to name their children, probably equivalent of naming your child a character from Macbeth or something idk. But for some reason my parents decided to spell me using dutch colonial spelling which is how most language in indonesia uses during colonial time and has been removed and changed with a new standardised spelling since the 1960s.

The basic changes is (since most southeast asian languages are shallow orthography)

1. oe => oo => u

2. tj => c

3. dj => j

4. j => y

So since my name is Ruci Nur Supono, it got turned into Roetji Noor Soepono, which should be fine if i was born in 1955, but i was born in the year 2010, where most names are already in modern spelling. And they decided to name me that because it's "unique" and stuff, but it's basically ruining every single occasion where somebody else must input my names for me, like competition certificates, organisation, etc etc because everyone has basically forgotten how to spell in colonial spelling.

As you might know, most parents who named their kids weird unique names have something going on with their parenting. And my mom turned out to be mostly overprotective, strict, and paranoid about my safety. Oh well

My wife wanted to name our daughter Jenelda. It's a combination of hers and her mother's name.

I stood my ground on it being a tragedeigh, and made it clear my daughter's name wouldn't sound like she was the wicked witch of the southwest.

Her name is Abigail.

Tragedeigh averted? Thoughts? My wife still maintains it's a perfectly fine name.

Wyntr. Yep, no actual vowels at all. I had a professional email conversation with this person today.

Nobody ever believes me, but about 15 years ago I worked in a call center with a young lady named Aqua Netta. I am not joking. She went by Netta. She sat 3 rows behind me. She had to spell and explain her name to callers dozens of times a day.

Moradiance. She seemed nice tho… no h8

Is my name a tragedieh?

Jazzlynn

Spotted this one in a "best prom dress" contest.

It's particularly bad considering that this girl comes from a town known for producing excellent Chardonnay.

Whyyy??

I'm assuming it's pronounced LeeAnne, but I want to say Lee-uh-han-uh

for context: a teacher in my hometown recently named her child Tripp Riggins, first and middle. Her cousin copied the name three months later, and this is the BD’s response to the teacher’s callout post.

rahjier

leighym

jesikah

rayleighawna

aerich

sheilah

k-lee

Encountered this in the wild, took me a second to realize… Erika?!?! I was flabbergasted, I still feel uneasy.

Absolutely atrocious…

These are the first, second, and third names of ONE child.

An instructor at my gym is named Errka, pronounced “Erika”.

An account on one of my platforms

Kimbyrleigha

I rest my case.

No, it's actually spelled Dawnna. Omfg

Came across one today that I think fits here, in a spreadsheet of staff sent to me for licensing (hence I can't really screenshot!)

I've never met a 'Mersaydiz' before, and I'm not sure I ever want to.

Is that a tragedeigh? (Either the name, or me not wanting to meet them...)

Recently I've been meeting a lot of parents who have been spelling their kids' names with X'. The two I remember specifically are X'Ziana and X'alo. But there were others, just cant remember them!

X'Ziana was pronounced like "Sienna"

X'alo was pronounced like "Halo"

This poor child. I thought it was bad when she named her other son Pony, but this takes the cake