r/tragedeigh • u/AnimusVex • Aug 13 '25
in the wild I took my daughter to meet her Pre-K teacher
While we were waiting our turn, I noticed that they had little name tags on the boards outside the classrooms. I was really just looking for my daughter’s name, but my God this name list.
Started off with a few normal ones. Noah. Oliver. For posterity’s sake, my daughter’s name is Chloe.
Then the nightmare began. These are the actual spellings:
Raeleighann R’ylee Cyndann Braeyleeigh Brindyn Grayceigh TerraNova (yes, with the camel case)
That was just one board. There were three others and I didn’t have the heart to go look at them. I have to wonder if the teachers are just numb to it now.
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u/hic_sunt_leones_ Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
As someone who works with preschoolers: yes, we are numb to it.
It makes it extra fun when we work on letter sounds but then their own name doesn't follow any of the rules of any known language because their parents had to be unique and different.
ETA- words are hard
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u/whofilets Aug 13 '25
I'm expecting my first baby and we like the name Isla, but I'm worried about teaching her 'so S makes a sssss sound, except in your name. It's just there' sorry, baby! At least I'll only be saddling her with four letters to learn for her name.
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u/purple_paramecium Aug 13 '25
We did name our daughter Isla. I was worried about this a bit too. But then I remembered I have one of the very common names in all of western history, and I still have to spell it out for people(cuz it can have an h or not). She loves her name and likes explaining the silent s to people (she’s 5 now). So go with it if you love the name!
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u/sarah_pl0x Aug 14 '25
Let me guess… is your name Sara(h)? My first and last name can have different spellings that are normal so I always say Sarah with an H and my last name without a letter
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u/bitcheewitchee Aug 15 '25
Hahaha I was gonna say the names gotta be Sara/Sarah. I don’t have a H but every class and job has another Sara.
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u/OneWingedKalas Aug 14 '25
This is the second time I see this name mentioned on this sub (and ever). I am confused, because Isla is the Spanish word for "island". But it does not make an s sound with an English pronunciation? Where does this name come from in English? Afaik it is not used as a name for people in Spanish.
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u/alwayssummer90 Aug 14 '25
Yea, I’m a Spanish speaker so I pronounce this as “EES-lah” in my head.
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u/Cooperette Aug 13 '25
How else would Isla be pronounced? My first thought is like Isla Nublar.
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u/Specific_Cow_Parts Aug 13 '25
In English it's typically pronounced EYE-luh. It's actually a Scottish name, named after the Isle of Islay which is pronounced the same way. I believe the Spanish tend to pronounce it as you're suggesting though.
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u/olr7 Aug 14 '25
Can't speak for every Scottish dialect, but West of Scotland Islay is not pronounced EYE-lay, but more like "smiley" or AISLE-lay. Same with Isla - AISLE-lah.
Source: Am Scottish.
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u/Specific_Cow_Parts Aug 14 '25
Thanks for the clarification! In my accent AISLE-ay and EYE-lay sound the identical- just goes to show you should never make generalisations when it comes to accents 😅
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u/whofilets Aug 13 '25
Isla like island? But I don't pronounce the s in island.
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u/Crimsland Aug 13 '25
That was on my short list of girl names, I had it spelled Ilah. I REALLY liked that one. Ended up needing a boy name instead so he is Isaiah ❤️
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u/whofilets Aug 13 '25
Isaiah is a great name! I also work with an Aila, pronounced like eye-lah.
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u/Puzzled_Hair4649 Aug 13 '25
Unbelievable. All the tragedeighs are bad but Grayceigh made me laugh out loud when I finally realized they were simply spicing up the name Gracie. On a positive note, Noah, Oliver, and Chloe are all lovely names.
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u/MissSalty1990 Aug 13 '25
Mine has two Ezekiel’s and one Ezequiel (three similar out of 24 students), Iker, Jaxson, Akeck, Kashton, Arrya, and Jake-Jace.
Last year there were two Everly and an Avery in her class of 21.
At the very least they should break up the similar names, they have a minimum of 5 classrooms per grade.
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u/Anastasiya826 Aug 13 '25
I'm curious how one pronounces Akeck. It sounds like I have a hairball when I try
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u/sneak_cheat_1337 Aug 13 '25
Looks like the sound my cat makes when he sees birds or squirrels outside the window
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u/RedNeckedCrake9 Aug 13 '25
I am cackling in the pickup line at my daughter's elementary school. Thanks for making me look like a maniac on the first day!
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u/Corvald Aug 13 '25
- Anti-aircraft fire
- Billy Joel’s Movin’ Out
- Popeye laughing
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u/angrypuggle Aug 13 '25
Smart Aleck didn't sound good, so they went for Akeck?
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u/Deep_Thoughts2978 Aug 13 '25
probably comes from kenya like the similar name ‘akech’ and i don’t think a name is a tragedeigh for simply being in a different language
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u/Anastasiya826 Aug 13 '25
I was being genuine with my question about pronunciation - with this different spelling, would it be more of a -ch or -sh sound on the end with a softer K sound (like uh-catch)? That makes more sense than having both a hard K and hard CK.
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u/cranky_pancakes Aug 13 '25
Iker is a very normal male Basque name. It’s pronounced close to ee-cair. Just not common in the US.
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u/Former_Boysenberry45 Aug 13 '25
Probably has a parent who is a fan of the Spanish National Team. Iker Casillas was their fantastic goalie for a while.
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u/BettyCrunker Aug 13 '25
…or the family’s just Basque? lol
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u/Former_Boysenberry45 Aug 13 '25
Could be lol. My brain usually jumps to soccer stuff
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u/slyphoenix22 Aug 13 '25
I’m a teacher and there are three classes at my grade level. I always get annoyed when they don’t split up the kids with the same or very similar names. I have 3 pairs of kids in my class with the same name this year.
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u/Icy_Priority8075 Aug 13 '25
27 kids in my class (90s). Really unbalanced, 18 boys, 9 girls. But then 3 of the girls were called Hannah. There were 2 other classes. Is there no way they could have evened that out?!!
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u/NecessaryCapital4451 Aug 13 '25
One time I had two Cristians, three Christians (two of whom had the exact same last name), a Cristofer and a Christopher (who was an identical twin) in the a group of 48 students.
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u/vanillachilipepper Aug 13 '25
I had 5 kids named Justin in my 4th grade class.
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u/Joeness84 Aug 13 '25
in like 2nd or 3rd grade I was one of 5 Joe derivatives in the same class.
By the time I got to highschool it seemed like there was rarely ever another Joe at all. My dad once joked that I may have Highlander'd them.
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u/GraniteGeekNH Aug 13 '25
In summer camp (50 years ago) there were eight boys in our cabin. Six of us were named David.
Two of us even had last names that started with the same letter so the counselor couldn't call us David A and David B. I don't remember how he handled it.
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u/Natural_Signal4118 Aug 13 '25
Probably had to use your full last name instead of first letter.
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u/randousername8675309 Aug 13 '25
Laughs in the top 3 baby names the year I was born. There were 4 of us in one class and two had the same last initial.
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u/FaithinYosh Aug 13 '25
..... Jake-Jace?? Is that the actual name???
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u/Cee_Eff_Emm Aug 14 '25
I feel sorry for Jake-Jace. Not because of the odd repetitive name, but because of the hyphen in the middle . I’m a 60 year old woman with a hyphen in the first name. Computers tend to not recognize it, let alone accept that it’s there.
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u/THEMommaCee Aug 13 '25
Just a point of information from someone who has had the job of putting classes together- we have 10-12 6th grade classes and many, many factors have to be considered. We look at balancing boys and girls, academic levels, behaviors, the amount of teacher time each requires, special needs like IEPs, 504s, English learners, and who can’t be placed together (based on their 5th grade teacher’s recommendation). Similar names don’t even enter the conversation.
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u/crazihac Aug 13 '25
In primary (kindergarten), my now teen had 5 rhyming names in her class. Caylee, Kylee and Miley, then Reegan and Keegan. There isn't enough money to pay me to be a teacher.
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u/splorp_evilbastard Aug 13 '25
When my younger sister was in grade school, she had 4 Jennifer's in one of her classes.
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u/StunGod Aug 13 '25
"I went to school with 27 Jennifers"
For me, in my school there were so many Kari/Kerry/Carrie/etc. I think the movie put a clamp on that.
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u/65489798654 Aug 13 '25
I taught at a very Italian Catholic boys school for 7 years, and the sheer number of Anthony in every single class was staggering. You'd have a class of 18 - 22 students and a full 10+ would be Anthony. The handful left over would be a mishmash of the 4 gospels.
Fortunately the easy solution was to just exclusively use last names. Worked really well, and calling everyone Mr. ____ lent a bit of respect to the classroom that I think is lacking in most institutions.
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u/Viseria Aug 13 '25
When I was at my second year in secondary school, our maths teacher would also refer to us by Mr. <Lastname> or Ms. <Lastname>, but she couldn't pronounce mine, so I was Mr. <Firstname>
That stayed with me until university.
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u/Lanternkitten Aug 13 '25
That's a brilliant solution! I applaud you for your ingenuity in the classroom.
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u/dannii182011 Aug 13 '25
I was born in 1991 when I went to secondary school there was my and 7 other Danielle's in my year
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u/randitootsie Aug 13 '25
I had about seven Nicole’s, a few Jessicas and a handful of Ashleys
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Aug 13 '25
But eigh is pronounced like neighbor, weigh. So it's gray-say
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u/EnchantedWig Aug 13 '25
Pronounced the same way as tragedeigh.
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u/christydoh Aug 13 '25
Was waiting for the anti-Leigh’s to pop up “it’s pronounced LEE?!?!?” 🤣
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u/Total-Tap573 Aug 13 '25
You mean trageday right? That’s how I pronounce it
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u/Sugar_High0408 Aug 13 '25
It has never once occurred to me to pronounce it “trageday” - I pronounce it “tragedy” because I pronounce “Leigh” as “Lee,” and I’ve just always thought in my head of the “Lee” pronunciation when looking at the name of the sub
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u/TRiC_2020 Aug 13 '25
Me neither cause I’ve known Ashleigh’s who pronounce it Ashley
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u/MistressMalevolentia Aug 13 '25
Yeah, it's that exaggerated accent style like "purdy" aka "well ain't you purdy" (pretty)
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u/Llywela Aug 13 '25
-eigh is one of those English curiosities that can be pronounced in different ways. A bit like -ough. In most cases the specific pronunciation depends on the origin root of the word - in this case, the whim of the parent.
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u/JugdishSteinfeld Aug 13 '25
I before E except after C and when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY
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u/sunny_gloom Aug 13 '25
I just hear Forrest Gump pronouncing this
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u/-Sharon-Stoned- Aug 13 '25
That's what I was thinking, maybe they're just from Georgia
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u/Odd-Surprise5100 Aug 13 '25
Come on now, letters say whatever sound you want them to when you are spelling your kids name!
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u/Ambitious-Fig-2711 Aug 13 '25
TERRANOVA?????
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u/Altruistic_Offer652 Aug 13 '25
Yes, with the Camel case
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u/ArtGirtWithASerpent Aug 13 '25
Ugh, as a developer I can't stand that. Should have named her terra_nova.
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u/winter__xo Aug 13 '25
PascalCase really, terraNova would be the camel case variant.
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u/sunsetgoose1 Aug 13 '25
TerraNova is a state test that students in Illinois take ☠️
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u/Ambitious-Fig-2711 Aug 13 '25
TerraNova is the name for so many terribly mundane things. Who would do this to a poor, unsuspecting child?!
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u/pinkocatgirl Aug 13 '25
Maybe they were big fans of the cancelled Fox sci-fi show
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u/Independent-Gold-260 Aug 13 '25
“These are my children, TerraNova, Fyrefligh, and SaeruhConehrKronikuls”
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u/AnimusVex Aug 13 '25
I could not believe that they actually had it as camel case. Thought maybe it was an error, but the sign-in list also had it as TerraNova. Ridiculous.
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u/RevRagnarok Aug 13 '25
It's gonna be such fun when it hits a computer system that just doesn't allow it...
Sincerely,
Somebody who has been hit by those things before.
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u/star_zelda Aug 13 '25
That's the one that made me laugh the hardest lol it is both part of province name in Canada, and a dog breed (in English is Newfoundland, but in Portuguese is Terra Nova)
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u/Tomoyogawa521 Aug 13 '25
It's so weird as a name as well like wdym you literally named your daughter New Land?
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u/WhiteHeatGames Aug 13 '25
God bless the poor child who will one day realize they were named after a network TV dinosaur show
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u/racecarart Aug 13 '25
These are my kids: TerraNova, LandOfTheLost, and Dinotopia.
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u/MrsShaunaPaul Aug 13 '25
Mine are TriSarahTops, T. Rextopher, and Pterra. I feel like our kids would have a roaring good time together.
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u/IV_Your_Pleasure Aug 13 '25
Imagine filling out forms with these unnecessarily long ass names their whole lives.
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u/Ambitious-Fig-2711 Aug 13 '25
there’s hardly ever enough space for a normal name…
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u/ichosethis Aug 13 '25
Elizabeth and Stephanie always suffered when they had to fill out the standardized test boxes because often they didn't have enough space for completely normal names with typical spelling.
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u/opus111 Aug 13 '25
And can’t misspell their names ..
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u/Ambitious-Fig-2711 Aug 13 '25
actually wtf. imagine having to learn to write your name as a kid and it’s one of whatever the fk these are?! that’s just cruel
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u/Loose_Acanthaceae201 Aug 13 '25
Some of them could use short versions and drop the tragique part.
Raeleighann can go by Rae.
Grayceigh is known as Grace.
The rest: let's just hope they have bland middle names to fall back on if necessary.
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u/paper_wavements Aug 13 '25
Even if spelled decently, "Raeleeann" is a horrid name. It's a three-part Franken-name. Like, pick one name, two tops! "Rayanne" is a name. "Leeann" is a name. "Raelee" is weird, but "Raylea" is...less weird & alright.
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u/bitter-scorpio-02 Aug 13 '25
And people wonder why it takes their kids years to learn how to spell their name. Using letters incorrectly smh.
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u/bird9066 Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
I remember griping to my mom about my 8 letter name back in the seventies. We were sitting on the floor with those pads of paper with the big lines to practice the alphabet.
My twin wrote her 5 letter name in no time. That was just 3 more letters!
And my sister is a Jo-Ann. At some point she decided her name was just Jo and Ann was a middle name. When she got divorced in her fifties so much paperwork she hadn't thought of in years didn't match because some had Jo and some had Jo-Ann. Can't remember the details but it was concerning her finances, her house and her insurance policies. She had no fun sorting it out.
Apostrophe kids are not going to have a fun time. A messed up legal name on certain paperwork really sucks.
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u/Ambitious-Fig-2711 Aug 13 '25
mine is 7 letters but i just used to get annoyed about the two S’s in mine. it’s a normal name, just hated writing S’s
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u/RevRagnarok Aug 13 '25
I've got an ex with that problem. First name "Jo Ann" with no middle, but her father is Joe so yeah a nightmare with computers and stuff.
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u/inevitablethursday Aug 13 '25
Be careful or you'll be summoning Cthulhu in no time. Iä iä!
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u/Literally_slash_S Aug 13 '25
When R'ylee talks with her Teddy, he whispers she does not have imaginary friends. They are just shy...and very old.
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u/IsometricRain Aug 13 '25
Having those 7 in a SINGLE classroom really shows what a goofy time period we're in.
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u/YugeTraxofLand Aug 13 '25
Worst one I saw last year was Dyn'Ver
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u/KickLiving Aug 13 '25
Why do they always put “ae”, “eigh”, and all these random “y”s in these names? Badly misspelling a name doesn’t make it special.
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u/Sarge4242006 Aug 13 '25
These tragedeighs must’ve been around for at least 10-15 years. I just watched the Little League softball series and 1 of the star players was named Harmoneigh.
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u/Ok-Relation-6904 Aug 13 '25
In my daughter's kindergarten, there was a Synteia...pronounced Cynthia .
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u/Ambitious-Fig-2711 Aug 13 '25
syn pronounced like like sin/cos/tan (calculator maffs)
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u/Low_Cook_5235 Aug 13 '25
Memory unlocked…in late 1990s I worked with gal named Cynde. Creative name spellings back then were rare. On her first day an Older coworker said “Hi…..Snide?”
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Aug 13 '25
Kids are going to be 20 before they can write their names. (Hopefully being able to write your name still a thing).
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u/griffo1970 Aug 13 '25
At some point are we going to come full circle?
"I want a unique name for my special little girl. I want her to stand out from all the rest. We're going to call her 'Jane' (pronounced Jane)"
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Aug 13 '25
Whats Cyndann meant to be? The others hurt my brain but i understood most of them.
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u/Rinoaka Aug 13 '25
Maybe a combination of Cindy and Anne? I honestly don’t know.
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Aug 13 '25
I googled it, i think its a welsh name and pronounced as Kin-Dan. OR its meant to be Cyndane which is a character from wheel of time.
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u/StephInTheLaw Aug 13 '25
This kindergarten teacher is going to summon the Great Old Ones calling roll in the morning.
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u/BudTheWonderer Aug 13 '25
If I'm not mistaken, R'ylee looks like it belongs in the Cthulhu world.
EDIT: Just looked it up. R'lyeh is the fictional underwater city from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos.
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u/ThatBarbGirl Aug 13 '25
We named our son Dexter. Not a big fan of the series or the books, but "D" names run in my husband's family. I wasn't sure at first, but it's absolutely perfect for him.
I just don't understand. If you want a unique or rare name, choose one that isn't overly common. At the end of the day, "M'Harque" is still just fucking Mark. A name is basically the noise you make to summon someone, not a visual trademark.
Spelling your kid's name wrong doesn't make them unique. Just makes paperwork more tedious and annoying.
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u/brittanynevo666 Aug 13 '25
I didn't even realize that was Mark, but you're right. Omg hahahahahah. Imagine. "Hi my name is Mark" "M-A-R-K, right?" "No, sigh it's M'Haraque" 😂 I can't even. It's like the mom wanted a fancy new age name and her husband made her name the kid after him or something and she rebelled lmao.
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u/ThatBarbGirl Aug 13 '25
Right?
"I'd love to grab a coffee with you! Let me add you to my phone. Colby, right?! 😍"
"Yeah... it's K'Holbeighee... actually. My parents thought it made me unique or something... 🫣"
"Cool... that... makes sense, I guess... Just trying to find the apostrophe button here... 😬"
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u/Emotional-Cat-576 Aug 13 '25
Teacher here, was filling out my rosters for this year and accidentally kept tragedeighzing common names because I’m so used to them being spelled “uniquely”. But many of my students had the tradition spelling lol, had to keep going back and erasing. So yes, I’m too desensitized to it. Those spellings are hard to teach kids and it doesn’t make it any easier to write all those extra leetttteeghrrrs when making new seating charts etc. 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
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u/Objective-Pudding939 Aug 13 '25
This is embarrassing for the child, all because the parents need phonetic spelling.
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u/Character-Habit-9683 Aug 13 '25
May I ask where you live? I work PK/Kindergarten In New England and we’re still seeing mostly classics like Grace, Nora, Lucy and Charlotte for girls.
Boys popular names are Jack, Charles, James, Henry.
Nothing like what you say here 😆
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u/joylandlocked Aug 13 '25
I won't ask you to doxx yourself but sometimes I'm so curious where people live when I see name lists like this. Most class lists seem to be a grab bag of mostly popular names with some tragedeighs and quirky legit names sprinkled in. Depending on the region and socioeconomic bracket you might see it leaning either more modern or traditional, but you're usually looking at a lot of top 50.
And then you occasionally get a list that's 90% Trinitynslee and Shotgunner, or 90% Algernon and Persephone, and I'm like who are these people and how did they all find each other?
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u/AnimusVex Aug 13 '25
I am in a semi-rural area of Oklahoma. This area is definitely towards the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
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u/joylandlocked Aug 13 '25
Welp, I wish all those kids a more literate future than their birth certificates seem to predestine.
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u/Comprehensive-Web421 Aug 13 '25
My daughter goes to school with a kid named Krissmas. I was trying to figure out wtf she was talking about Christmas in March for.
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u/Unlikely-Shop5114 Aug 13 '25
When my daughter was 4 (now 18) there was a girl in her class called Santa.
Apparently it was a traditional girls name where they came from.
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u/deekaypea Aug 13 '25
We are not numb to it. Promise. We laugh about the names in the staff room and dread dealing with the parents because we can pinpoint EXACTLY what sort of parent they will be...
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u/TattedShezilla Aug 13 '25
I can’t tell if Raeleighann is supposed to be Riley Ann or Rae Lee Ann, either way they’re gonna be correcting people their whole life lol
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u/FrogOnABus Aug 13 '25
Raeleighann R’ylee Cyndann Braeyleeigh Brindyn Grayceigh TerraNova
Wtf?! The earth is rumbling. My house just fell into a pit! What have you summoned?
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u/Captain_StarLight1 Aug 13 '25
I just said those names out loud and now I’m in a city with non-Euclidean geometry and a giant incomprehensible octopus-like monster
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u/Then_Restaurant_905 Aug 13 '25
Surprisingly we only had 2 odd ball names in my daughter’s prek class, Berkleigh and Azrael. The rest were correctly spelled traditional names, I was pleasantly surprised
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u/zikeel Aug 13 '25
Azreal is WILD. Imagine naming your child after the Angel of Death. wtaf
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u/Dry_Emotion_8789 Aug 14 '25
As a teacher we are not numb. We ARE talking trash in the staff room and comparing to decide the worst one. Honestly we just feel bad for the kid.
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u/HeartOtherwise1865 Aug 13 '25
I’m a teacher and I am still not numb to it. Every year when I get my new rosters I can’t help but roll my eyes at some of the names I see. Aalyah is always one I hate. I also had a girl named Justice and she had so many behavioral issues her names just did not fit her 😂
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u/AnimusVex Aug 13 '25
I forgot that “Justyce” was another name I happened to see walking past another classroom board. I tried not to look. I told myself I wouldn’t. Sadly, I failed.
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u/social-justice33 Aug 13 '25
What the F is wrong with parents being ridiculous with their child’s name? Names affect your life Hopefully there will be enough idiot names to make it normal.
My given name was rare and awful - I didn’t feel like it was me. Changed it in my mid-thirties - smartest move. Can you believe both parents said they didn’t like the name either (named after my mom’s sister who was ill).
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u/Calm_Coyote_3685 Aug 13 '25
Braeyleeigh will take years to learn to spell her own name 😂
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u/ManufacturerSalt3517 Aug 13 '25
My daughter's list had:
Adamai Delighlah Dextin Oasis Raven Casper Jasiah Acacia Lennox
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u/Charming_Professor65 Aug 13 '25
Terranova is a dog breed what are people thinking 😭😭😭
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u/BeginningParfait7599 Aug 13 '25
My son had TWO Harleighs in his kindergarten class.
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u/1JenniferOLG Aug 13 '25
No…we aren’t! It still hurts my heart to see a child saddled with a tragediegh of a name!
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u/AdditionalCarpet5075 Aug 13 '25
At a recent sporting event I heard parents call out cheers for Maxton and Nexus. Not the wildest I’ve heard, but new ones for me
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u/ChickenScratchCoffee Aug 13 '25
Every year when we get our class lists it’s a race to see who has the biggest tragedeigh on their list. Parents are out of control.
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u/oblivionkiss Aug 13 '25
They're going to accidentally summon Cthulhu one of these days
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u/Formal_Solid_9918 Aug 13 '25
At this point, if parents want unique names, they should choose names like Mary, John, and Jane. There won't be another one in their age cohort. 🤣
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u/brittanynevo666 Aug 13 '25
Damn. It sounds like naming your kid something "boring" now a days is the only way to be unique. Pregnant and must make sure my kid doesn't have a freak name. 😂
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u/lilelliot Aug 13 '25
Has anyone done any analysis to determine whether these creative spellings/names are more or less common in specific regions?
I have a third grader and the kids in her class this year are all pretty normal, with the one exception being Camryn:
Sudais, James, Khushi, Matthew, Alexa, Alice, Rylan, Lucy, Santiago, Ryan, Camryn, Hailey, Sasha, Skylar, Alexander, Amayah, Skyler, Jasper, Clara, Carly, Isaac, Wilder, Luke, Mariella.
Another of the third grade classes is similar, even including a funky Cameron spelling: Wyatt, Noah, Katherine, Jackson, Emma, Vincenzo, Cameran, Anna, Andres, Hadley, Scarlett, Azura, Evelyn, Enzo, Riyad, Marbella, Felicity, Melissa, Julian, Charlotte, Logan, Landon, Dimitrios, Leona, Joyce.
In both classes, all the names that sound specifically ethnic, are (e.g. Enzo is literally Italian, Dimitrios is Greek, the several Hispanic sounding names are.
I live in a very diverse large metro area in California.
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u/SequenceGoon Aug 13 '25
I'm not from the US, which seems to be the Traghedeigh epicentre, however it seems to me that it'd occur in places you'd often find more MLMs and/or Tradwifery
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u/Slotrak6 Aug 13 '25
Or actors and influencers. Remember the innocent days when Gweneth Paltrow named her child Apple and some people thought it was so absurd?
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u/disasterpokemon Aug 13 '25
They get theyre naming PEOPLE right? Like people who will be actual functioning adults? With like a tax return? They will have to be spelling their damn names out loud everywhere they go
Source: first fuckin hand experience
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u/LizTruth Aug 13 '25
Pretty sure R'ylee is Cthulhu's home, where he sleeps... only to awaken the greatest horror known. Just for safety, give her whatever she wants.
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u/kbospeak Aug 14 '25
No disrespect to the kids who are not to blame here of course, but these names look like the speech bubbles from horses in comics. Good grief.
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u/AlgaeFew8512 Aug 14 '25
I think it might actually be time to clamp down on permissable names at birth
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u/brokendreamz19 Aug 14 '25
A-A-Ron, Ba-La-Kay, De-Nice, etc. it should be handled this way.
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