A couple have been criticised and branded “horrible” for the unusual way they have chosen to write their children’s names.
The eldest daughter in the family, who has a “normal” name, said her parents became “unruly” with her sister, who was given the nickname Madasunn Blaykeley (pronounced Madison Blakely).
And his pregnant mother is set to do it all again by choosing an equally “embarrassing” name for her unborn child.
“My parents finally settled on a name, Riyenn Leighyehm, pronounced Ryan Liam. Poor brother, I can’t imagine his future,” the woman wrote on Reddit.
The distraught sister’s post left many furious at her parents’ “selfish” and “crazy” behaviour.
Madasunn’s name was jokingly called “tragedeigh” by her older brother, who admitted that neither of them liked the choice.
“She hates her name and has said many times that having to spell it out loud for people is very embarrassing,” he said.
The woman is now praying for her unborn sibling after pleas to her parents to correct the spelling of her name fell on deaf ears.
A couple have been criticised as being in “poor taste” for the unusual way they have chosen to spell their children’s names.
People had no sympathy for the free-thinking parents, calling their need to be unique “pathetic” and “insensitive,” and many said such behavior should be illegal.
“Ugh, start filling out the name change forms right now and give it to your siblings on their eighteenth birthday,” one man said.
“That’s not a name, that’s a war crime,” another agreed.
Others said parents’ obsession with uniqueness was selfish and that they were just making life harder for their children.
“Oh my God, those poor kids. No offense, but your parents are crazy. They are desperate for attention and to be ‘unique,'” one woman said.
“If my parents gave me a stupid name like that, I would hate them,” another agreed.
Others argued that the names were not only embarrassing, but that children themselves would probably have difficulty spelling them.
“Imagine if one of these kids had dyslexia. I’m a dyslexic adult and I still misspell my name, which is very basic,” said one.
“And even if they aren’t dyslexic, they still have a life of pranks and bullying ahead of them.”
Others said the “strange” spelling of the names is actually incredibly common despite being chosen for their “uniqueness.”
One said that simply spelling the baby’s name as ‘Ryan’ would be more original.
“When Riyenn is in school, all the children will have ‘tragedeigh’ names and will no longer be unique. Ryan will be,” she said.
“I have great respect for this couple I know who have named each of their seven children the old fashioned way, spelled with normal names. They are already considered unique names because of the Tragedeigh people,” said another.
This is not the first time that a child with a misspelled name has sparked outrage on the Internet.
An American dance teacher recently went viral on TikTok for talking about the “trashiest” boy name she’d ever heard.
“I get it, everyone wants to be different,” she said when she first saw the name: La/a.
“I looked at it for a long time and then thought, ‘I got it, it’s Leia,'” she said, but she was wrong.
After calling “Leia’s” parents, the teacher was surprised when the mother responded with the correct way to pronounce La/a.
“It’s La-dash-ah,” the bewildered professor revealed, discovering that the script was not actually silent.
“In what world and at what time do you not hear a script?” the professor asked.
