Bad, Hilarious, Or Just Absurd Baby Names

This kid’s first name is Xtyn. Pronounced “ex-tin.” Please tell me this isn’t a real name.

 

I wonder if this person has seen and woefully misunderstood the abbreviation of Christ as "X" in X'mas, Xtina, Xtian, et cetera. It would be horribly awful to name your kid Christyn and spell it that way, but I'd also be kinda surprised if nobody has.

 

I’m sure it’s happened, but that’s not how this one was pronounced. (Shrug)

 

Yeah, I meant to say this is a 2-person fuckery. One parent to do the "creative spelling" and another one--the one you met--to see it written down and decide to pronounce it X-ten.

 

Alecs goes in the “creative spelling” category.

 

I once used a program called "aleks" to learn math

 

I'm also surprised they didn't go with the Roman numeral X, for 10, making the kid's name X-X

 

once encountered the name Lecsi on someone who chose to go by another name instead

Edit: i only saw it because the school apparently hadnt gotten its preferred name system sorted out or they hadnt been told not to put it on publicallly visible class lists :/

 

I used that same program!

Also I do seem to recall that Aleksander/Aleksandra are valid spellings in some culture or another but I could be mistaken. If that were the case, Aleks would be a reasonable nickname, although if it were me I'd just use Alex to avoid confusion. :P

Not sure where they got Alecs from, though, unless there's a cultural variant spelling with a C? Probably just ~*creative*~ spelling, though. :/

 

I think Aleks is the traditional Russian spelling? From a long time ago.

 

Aleksander/dra is the traditional transliteration of the Cyrillic spelling of Alexander/dra, because there isn't really a single letter in that alphabet for the sound an English 'x' makes.
Александр(а) > Alyeksandr(a) > Aleksander/dra

edit: and tbh both versions are a little bit weird because they're being transliterated from Greek, so there's some alphabet shenanigans :P

 

Thank you!

 

Rod Pullin.

 

I sincerely hope that Rod is a poorly-chosen nickname for Roderick or Rodney or something. It'd still be bad, but at least they would've chosen something bad instead of being saddled with it by their parents.

 

Unfortunately I don’t know. I didn’t meet the person, it was on some Official Paperwork.

 

...That just makes me feel worse for the poor guy, because if it's on official paperwork that's probably their real name. :(

 

The surname "pitcock."

 

Destynee.

 

Proof that funny spellings aren't just a super recent thing: today I catalogued a book on central american textiles from about 1981 written by a Krystyna