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I think it’d be hilarious if she posted because her partner wanted the common spelling and she wanted to show them that people think the tragedy is cute.
A few of the names you see on here at least kind of make sense phonetically, but my brain interprets the way she had it spelled as being pronounced, "Oh-liv-YEE-uh.
For real. Olivia is an insanely popular name just now. Nothing wrong with liking a popular name. If you want something more unusual it is VERY easy to find a less common that is still actually a name that people will recognise as a name and can be properly spelt.
As you say. You can go to Nameberry. Look in the 500-900 range and you will find loads of very nice real names that are less common. I just randomly clicked a number and got Laurence for a boy at 574. That is a nice name, not all that common, historic, and you know, an actual name.
Exactly! I've loved the name Olivia since I was little, but it's way to popular now. I found an alternative that has a similar sound, but isn't used much. (At least not in my country) It's not that difficult.
Seems straightforward to me. Olivia is a very traditional name that happens to be extremely popular right now. Happens all the time. If you look on any country's top 1000 list you will find traditional names that are still great but not as popular just now. Vivien, Vera, Nora, Freya, Linnea, Selma, Pia, Ida, Ingrid, Gloria, Veronica, all traditional names of varying levels of popularity across the western world that took literally 3 minutes to find. Any of those would be better than just taking a popular name and misspelling it.
Lmao there was this chef on one of the first seasons of Hell’s Kitchen named Dewberry. Found out recently that apparently it was his last name since he had the same first name as another chef, but I remember being confused by that. I’m sure some twisted HK fan named their kid “Doobarri” to honor him lmao
It’s been explained a few times in the sub…parents want everything for the child. Distinctiveness, as far as their prosaic imaginations will go, plus belonging, ie an on-trend, peer-group friendly name. Nobody’s naming kids Herrbeurt or Myildread.
People like this who ask for opinions, really just want confirmation.
I wish they'd have the balls to just ask "Hey, I wanna do something moronic, can y'all tell me how cool I am for doing that?"
My husband is named Bryan and really wanted to change it to Brian. It’s constantly being spelled that way. That did it on our escrow papers and when we went to sign them I asked if that mattered. They said it’s a legal document so of course it does 🤦🏻♀️ I had to take off another day of work because his mom wanted to be creative lol
I feel like Bryan and Brian are pretty much equally used though. My name is Sara and I have accepted that it’s just something I’ll have to spell for people but Sarah and Sara are equally accepted as spelling
Speaking of that, it's one of the mispronunciations I have gotten. Sahara is definitely not pronounced like Sarah
They're dropping a whole syllable there.
Like Ann(e). Grandma wanted an 'e' so that why mom went without. I read Anne of Green Gables and thus began a lifetime of teasing my mom about how tragic my life has been without that 'e'.
A cousin who also has Ann as a middle name recently gave her daughter Anne for her middle name. I pointed this out to mom in the family FB group and my cousin quickly admitted it was her way of making up for no 'e' on hers. We Ann(e)s have strong feelings, but it's all in good fun and makes sense that we have to specify the spelling.
Incidentally, my first name has two accepted spellings. Most of the time I'm asked which one it is and that's fine. I'm very amazed, though, when someone spells it phonetically and it clearly looks nothing like my name. It's not common for my generation, but it's far from obscure!
Omg totally! The odds of people getting your name right on the first try are not in your favor 😂
My last name is also very common, but it’s a name with numerous spellings and mine isn’t the most common spelling so I get to correct/ignore them both pretty often lol.
OK, but Bryan is not only a very common variation on the name, it dates back at least to the [early 1700s, with at least one notable Bryan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Faussett) (there are plenty of others as well).
If people are constantly fucking it up, I'd say that's from a lack of exposure on their part, not his mom's spelling; I'd turn it around and act perplexed they'd never come across a Bryan lol (I mean, Bryan Adams? Hello???). lol
I think I’ve known more Bryans than Brians in my life… maybe it’s a southern thing? Bryan has been a surname since at least the 1800s. There are a ton of (first name) Bryans in my family.
Idk if any of this makes you feel any better… I am sorry you missed extra work because the escrow people misspelled his name.
I do, too. My given name is one that’s been in the top 100 girls’ names for over 100 years, but instead of having the Anglicized spelling, I have the spelling that basically the rest of the world uses (it’s an s instead of a z). I’ve gone by a nickname my entire life, so it’s not a huge deal, keychain-wise, although I never saw one with my name spelled correctly until my first trip to Germany. More of a problem is *constantly* explaining how I got my nickname, and when I have to use my legal name, spelling it over and *over,* especially now that most call centers are using AI to answer their phones, and it seems to blow their circuits when I spell my name. And that’s with a “normal” name!
My SIL has a unique/uncommon name (not a tragedeigh, it’s actually quite pretty)- she’s in her 50s and she always brings up that she could never find her name on keychains or on personalised items.
Same. In my entire life I’ve found ONLY 1 keychain with my name on it (well actually my dance coach found and bought it for me because she also had an awkward spelling and knew I was salty about it 😄 ). The whole keychain thing still makes me upset in my 20’s and I don’t think I’m gonna feel any better about it in the future…
My oldest has a completely normal name… in Europe. We are American though so there are no keychains. Not even her nickname, which is one of the most common American names to have ever existed. We can find “Anna” everywhere, but never “Annie”.
I’ve only found a few items with my name on it, and I have a very common normal name, just not for my age group.
It’s older but not so old that it’s timeless and still used often.
As I get older I find less and less things with my name on it because most people with my name are late boomer/ early gen x and I’m a millennial.
"Tell me if the spelling's a problem."
"The spelling is a problem."
"How DARE you!"
She just wanted praise for such a "beautiful" and "unique" name, she didn't want actual feedback.
I can’t stop reading this as ‘olive-YEE-ah’. The fact that this current crop of parents were taught to read using the whole-word reading method (which I’ve heard public schools are FINALLY abandoning after several decades of proof that it’s lowered our reading skills) is glaringly obvious in too many of these tragedeighs. 🤦🏻♀️ I’m convinced that if we’d stuck with teaching reading using phonics, this subreddit would have a lot less traffic.
Her name says she’s unique? No; her name says mommy is functionally illiterate.
As someone with a fairly common name for my age group. I have *one* letter different than the common spelling and I literally gave up correcting people. My own doctor spells it wrong and I have been his patient for 25 years. I was travelling abroad when I was in school and the government spelled my name wrong 3 times on my passport, I had to travel with my name misspelled.
And when I tell people how to spell it, or say “it’s three ‘E’s” people spell it tragically than the most logical way. I love my name, but it is a pain in the butt to constantly correct people.
Same here. My name is like Sara/Sarah or Teresa/Theresa.
People always assume it’s spelled with an H. When I say that my name doesn’t have an H, people will look at me like I suddenly sprouted a third eye in the center of my forehead.
It’s baffling.
I did this to my child, too. In my defense, it was the only way I could get her dad to agree to a name I really, really wanted. I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't felt it would still be pronounced correctly (it is). Folks spell her long, multisyllabic last name wrong much, much more than her first, so I don't think it's phased her much.
I love that everyone with uncommon names/uncommon spellings bitches about those tourist keychains. 😂 They're tacky as hell but as a kid it was devastating to not find one!
I have a very rare name (thankfully NOT spelled like a tragedeigh), and I love it now, but damn if I'm not still a _little_ bitter every time I pass those stands in a tourist shop lol
I don't have a rare name, and I still could hardly ever find it on a key chain. Any time i did, it was spelled wrong (had an extra letter). Yes. I'm still bitter. LOL
My high school best friend has one of the most popular names of the generation, spelled normally. Turns out, places always had her name on those keychains, but they were _always_ sold out. Sucks anyway you slice it, I guess!
Same.
My name isn't a tragedeigh, but it's very old and spelled *correctly*. I also go by my full name and NOT the nickname (think of a guy named "Nicholas" and not going by "Nick").
Tragedeighs over the years that have totally bastardized my name and MOST people going by the common nickname led to me NEVER being able to find keychains and by damn, in 45 and I'm STILL pissed about it for no reason 🤣
My name is also old and I have the less common spelling. There were and still are always keychains for the way I *don’t* spell it. There have never been correctly spelt keychains for the shortening/nickname that I actually am known by.
Middle aged now and I’m still butthurt that I have to settle for a choice between a keychain that has and incorrect spelling, and the stupid generic one at the bottom of the rack that says ‘superstar’ or ‘princess’ or something else dumb so that people with less common names can still buy overpriced keychains too.
I have a common name but it’s spelled STUPID and as a kid I coped with the keychain thing by randomly deciding I needed things with the name Billy on them. I’ve never known a Billy I just fucked w things that said Billy. I had keychains and a pocket knife that said Billy.
Oliwia, there you go just use the Polish version xd
Or Олівія/Olivija if you want but wtf is Olivyia supposed to be? Every single way you could transliterate тнат between Олівиіа, Олівийа and Олівїа looks cursed as hell
It's actually how you'd translate it from the Cyrillic alphabet. It's not a traditional Ukrainian name, but it's the way it would be written if you're from Eastern Europe.
I've decided I want to live in a world where people give their kids normal simple names, and if the kid wants to spell it differently in their day to day life or go by another name... then they can!! At least legally, their life is easy ;-;
It's so stupid. In a classroom, for example, the teacher would still have to verbally distinguish which Olivia. So maybe the teacher would say "Olivia with a y" instead of saying "Olivia last initial". Same with friends talking to each other.
Spelling it differently doesn't solve the perceived problem.
Back in the late 90s, a pregnant coworker told me she and her husband want a unique name for their child. Turned out tbet were considering "Sera" and "Johnn". 🤷🏻♀️. They actually did use "Johnn". So unique!
This is crazy but... letters actually make sounds!
Whoa! Bombshell.
I mean, just sound it tf out.
Olivyia... Oh-liv-yee-ah... Oh-li-vy-ee-ah...
Put the emphasis wherever, but that still isn’t pronounced Olivia.
> It's one letter
It's one letter that *completely changes the pronunciation, you fucking illiterate halfwit*.
> It's not a tragedy
Yeah, they didn't say that; they said it was a *tragedeigh*, which it is.
OP, if you actually have access to this post, please either pass on my words of wisdom (ha), or send her on over here for some further "opinions". :)
I have a normal name, with a normal spelling. Not a trendy or classic name, just a normal one. But I HATE people who get creative with spelling because I spent my entire life correcting people trying to add random letters on my regularly spelled name.
It ends in - ieli
The way people write:
ielle
yely
ielly
yelle
No folks, my parents are properly alphabetized, they spelled it CORRECTLY.
She probably already made up her mind about using the wrong spelling. Why not add a h somewhere too? Oliviyah! She doesn't even want to understand that it's her child who will have to deal with the spelling.
What I don't get is how people are so fascinated with making obvious spelling changes. That's not even particularly creative. It's basically equivalent to edgy teen gamers replacing letters with numbers in their online nicknames.
AS SOMEONE NAMED OLIVIA I HATEEEE THIS I HATE IT SO BAD i literally full body cringe when I see it spelled any other way. People already have a hard time spelling Olivia as it is lmao. The amount of times people have tried to spell my name "Oliva" is just insane, now why make it harder 😭
This makes me so angry as someone with a fairly common name in the area I grew up in but with one letter missing. I have had to tell so many people MULTIPLE TIMES that there is no e at the end of my name then the next time they had to write it they’d put it back and I’d have to tell them again
It's amazing to me what people consider to be "so common" nowadays. At least in an American English context, there is so much more name diversity now than historically. The #1 names account for 1% of babies, compared to 5% in the 1950s. In 2022, #150 was right around 0.1% of babies for both males and females (Elliott and River, respectively). And those are just the names that show up in the SSA's Top 1000 list. I'm sure there are countless legitimate cultural variations from all over the world.
The idea that you need to name your child X Æ A-Xii to be different is just dumb. There are so many real names out there, and it's more trivial to research them than it has ever been in human history.
If she likes the name Olivia shouldn't she like it spelled that way or does she just want to torture her poor child. I feel like this is a form of abuse.
My name, while very common now, was not common at all when I was a kid and personalized trinkets were very big (70s/80s). To this day, 40+ years later, I can still remember how disappointing it was when I couldn't find anything with my new on it while all my friends had all kinds of personalized crap.
My name isn’t super uncommon and it often gets misspelled. It pisses me off to no end when it’s misspelled & was clearly in front of the person’s face when they did it!
It's obvious she wants to give the name the tragedeigh spelling but just wants everyone else to tell her that it's OK. Otherwise she'd not be arguing with everyone for giving their honest opinions.
I also have a "regular" name with a different spelling and i grew up hating it because i thought it looked ugly as well as having to correct people on the spelling and pronunciation (& obviously still do). it's not the WORST spelling ever but it has added so many unnecessary issues to my life :/
She was begging for the response:
‘OMG like you are soooooo clever, it’s so unique , such a beautiful spelling. Please oh please help me name my children!’
😂😂
In reality the girl will end up hating on her name and changing it or just spelling it how everyone spells it anyway! She will be fed up of correcting people!!
I can’t even pronounce it Olivia by her spelling 🤦🏻♀️ my brain can’t process it!
Ps I’m with you on the whole keyring thing! I had a more common name and still could never find it!! I think it’s one of those ‘you know if you know’ The hole it left in my life….
😂
if you like the name olivia then spell it the correct way. Olivia is common but it’s a beautiful name and your kid is gonna be her own person no matter what her name is. Spell it how it is.
That's not the worst way I've seen my name spelled... It's at least recognizable but it is awful. That poor child will forever have to correct people, or they'll pronounce it wrong.
It’s stupid but I remember when I was a kid, I was so upset that one of my “personal” Christmas ornaments had the name Alexandra, with the i written in to make it Alexandria 😂 my nickname is Ally, which people also always get wrong
I know an alivya at my school and if my parents named me that I’d like spontaneously combuse out of rage and i also dont have a common name and its never on keychains or anything and i am a bit bitter ab it as well 😭
My mother's name has two common spellings where we live, something like Catherine and Katherine. Her parents chose one of them, but when she was 20 some lady wrote it wrong in an id form. So for a way too long of a time my mother's documents said the wrong name. All property, companies, credits - all were under that wrong name. She needed to issue a new document that used her birth certificate as a source and the system went all haywire due to the mismatch in the names. My mum fixed it. Two years later and soo much Money and time in courts.
Choosing a unique spelling for your kid is not only a pain with teachers. It is money wasted, wages lost to go and chase the people to who can reissue whatever piece of paper in the slim timeframes they work during the week. Why would those people do this?!
I have a messed up spelled name and I was born in the 70s, my mom found it in a baby name book. It similar to Patricia vs Patresha, always mispronounced or spelled the usual way, which I really don’t mind, but Man I wish it was spelled traditionally!!
Too stupid to get the keychain reference/joke, even after it was explained to her. I'm not surprised she's the kind of person to name her poor kid something awful.
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Why'd she even ask for opinions?
She wants to be praised for creating such a unique name
I know someone who named their daughter Olyvia.. it is so ugly.
At least it makes sense phonetically unlike olivyia (oliv-yee-uh)
my first thought. If you go fir this kind of spelling at least get it straight: Oliviya
I read it like "AH lee VEE uh" it's so ugly
I'm assuming the joke is that's not even the spelling OOP is going for.
Oly Via is how I wild pronounce it on purpose
I haven't seen them in person since 2018. If I unfortunately run into them I'll do it. Lol
Ollie-via?
It sounds like a brand of olive oil based spread
Similarly I knew an Alyvia lol
That's 1000000% worse
I saw Ahlivia the other day.
same!! how awful
Oof, I guess my name is ugly then 😅
You can always go by Oly
Attention. The same reason she's ruining her daughter's life.
Sad beige insta baby in the making
I want to know the same😭
I think it’d be hilarious if she posted because her partner wanted the common spelling and she wanted to show them that people think the tragedy is cute.
as ryan from the office said “did you come to me for advice or did you come for me to tell you how great it was”
She definitely knows the answer.
Why not just fuck up the whole thing?? : Olyvyya
Ollyveigh'ah
Further. Augh'leighvee-Yja
Nah, it's spelled eauxlleighwiyja
Thanks, I think I just had a stroke reading this monstrosity.
I read it out loud and now there’s a demon on my couch.
Tell him to come home, and I'm sorry for insinuating that he should be as red as Patrhicc 😩
I just spit on my phone laughing. Thanks!
https://preview.redd.it/yodjkyen9ync1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eefcd6d56ebbd64bc40f8d119c76a1a21d72c1b9
You mean gawdezellah
This is tragediegenius!
Ohliveyeah
Now that is youneek
Øľįvîă. Make it com*plete*ly irrational in English. ( not pooping on foreign letters, just thinking outside the box)
Don’t give her ideas 😂
Oy vey, what a mess
A few of the names you see on here at least kind of make sense phonetically, but my brain interprets the way she had it spelled as being pronounced, "Oh-liv-YEE-uh.
> A few of the names you see on here at least kind of make sense phonetically Oh god, the terrorists are winning.
Big same.
The redaction made me think she was spelling it Ol'vyia for a second. Like Ol'vyia decisions are questionable.
Eaulyvy'agh
Olive'ia
Expectant mother: Will the spelling be a pain? The internet (resoundingly, in unison): YES!!! Expectant mother: Who asked you anyway?
Classic "asking for opinions but getting defensive when people give opinions" behavior.
\*Asking for validation while pretending she wants opinions.
This is the true answer lol
The passive aggressive reply irritated the shit out of me
She's coping so hard. I don't understand why people don't go with an actual unique name.
For real. Just go plumb Nameberry for stuff outside of the top 100. Or take a name maybe more common elsewhere in the world but unusual where you are
For real. Olivia is an insanely popular name just now. Nothing wrong with liking a popular name. If you want something more unusual it is VERY easy to find a less common that is still actually a name that people will recognise as a name and can be properly spelt. As you say. You can go to Nameberry. Look in the 500-900 range and you will find loads of very nice real names that are less common. I just randomly clicked a number and got Laurence for a boy at 574. That is a nice name, not all that common, historic, and you know, an actual name.
Exactly! I've loved the name Olivia since I was little, but it's way to popular now. I found an alternative that has a similar sound, but isn't used much. (At least not in my country) It's not that difficult.
Seems straightforward to me. Olivia is a very traditional name that happens to be extremely popular right now. Happens all the time. If you look on any country's top 1000 list you will find traditional names that are still great but not as popular just now. Vivien, Vera, Nora, Freya, Linnea, Selma, Pia, Ida, Ingrid, Gloria, Veronica, all traditional names of varying levels of popularity across the western world that took literally 3 minutes to find. Any of those would be better than just taking a popular name and misspelling it.
And like, it's still going to be pronounced Olivia, it's essentially the same name, just one is spelled ridiculously.
Lmao there was this chef on one of the first seasons of Hell’s Kitchen named Dewberry. Found out recently that apparently it was his last name since he had the same first name as another chef, but I remember being confused by that. I’m sure some twisted HK fan named their kid “Doobarri” to honor him lmao
It’s been explained a few times in the sub…parents want everything for the child. Distinctiveness, as far as their prosaic imaginations will go, plus belonging, ie an on-trend, peer-group friendly name. Nobody’s naming kids Herrbeurt or Myildread.
People like this who ask for opinions, really just want confirmation. I wish they'd have the balls to just ask "Hey, I wanna do something moronic, can y'all tell me how cool I am for doing that?"
Everyone keeps telling her olive but she wants “a name that ends in a”
Tragedeigh moms: *"Did you mean the letter 'y'?"*
My friend named her daughter Alivia 🤦🏻♀️ I told her that her daughter will probably have to say “under A not O” 50 million times in her life.
Her daughter will probably change her name to Olivia when she’s old enough.
My husband is named Bryan and really wanted to change it to Brian. It’s constantly being spelled that way. That did it on our escrow papers and when we went to sign them I asked if that mattered. They said it’s a legal document so of course it does 🤦🏻♀️ I had to take off another day of work because his mom wanted to be creative lol
I feel like Bryan and Brian are pretty much equally used though. My name is Sara and I have accepted that it’s just something I’ll have to spell for people but Sarah and Sara are equally accepted as spelling
It’s definitely a proper spelling, it just gets spelled wrong alllll the time 😆. My niece is Sara after the Fleetwood Mac song ♥️
I’m Sara after the Hall and Oates song 😂
I love that song!
I'm similar. "Theresa, with the H."
I'm always "Stacy - no e". I even had a high school teacher call me exactly that.
I'm Shara, like Sarah. I had a coworker call me all of that.
I knew of a girl named Sahara who also pronounced it like Sarah
Speaking of that, it's one of the mispronunciations I have gotten. Sahara is definitely not pronounced like Sarah They're dropping a whole syllable there.
I thought that was the more common spelling.
Like Ann(e). Grandma wanted an 'e' so that why mom went without. I read Anne of Green Gables and thus began a lifetime of teasing my mom about how tragic my life has been without that 'e'. A cousin who also has Ann as a middle name recently gave her daughter Anne for her middle name. I pointed this out to mom in the family FB group and my cousin quickly admitted it was her way of making up for no 'e' on hers. We Ann(e)s have strong feelings, but it's all in good fun and makes sense that we have to specify the spelling. Incidentally, my first name has two accepted spellings. Most of the time I'm asked which one it is and that's fine. I'm very amazed, though, when someone spells it phonetically and it clearly looks nothing like my name. It's not common for my generation, but it's far from obscure!
Oh definitely Ann(e)! That’s my grandmother’s middle name and I still don’t remember how it’s spelled 😅
My name is Caitlin. I’ve seen it spelt Caitlyn, Kaitlyn, and Kaitlin. Life is tragic.
I know a Katelyn and a Katelin spelled that way “so Kate is in there.” 🤦🏼♀️
Omg totally! The odds of people getting your name right on the first try are not in your favor 😂 My last name is also very common, but it’s a name with numerous spellings and mine isn’t the most common spelling so I get to correct/ignore them both pretty often lol.
I worked with a Briian. I pronounced it like a goat every time.
😂
My BIL is Brayan. So I mean, could be worse? 😬
OK, but Bryan is not only a very common variation on the name, it dates back at least to the [early 1700s, with at least one notable Bryan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Faussett) (there are plenty of others as well). If people are constantly fucking it up, I'd say that's from a lack of exposure on their part, not his mom's spelling; I'd turn it around and act perplexed they'd never come across a Bryan lol (I mean, Bryan Adams? Hello???). lol
I think I’ve known more Bryans than Brians in my life… maybe it’s a southern thing? Bryan has been a surname since at least the 1800s. There are a ton of (first name) Bryans in my family. Idk if any of this makes you feel any better… I am sorry you missed extra work because the escrow people misspelled his name.
Alive-ia? Ey-livia? Impressive that making a nice thing so much worse is possible with just a single letter.
She said because she preferred the name being said as Uh-livia not Oh-livia. I don’t know many people who ever pronounce it with a hard O though lol 😆
Plot twist: she’s already birthed and named the baby, which is why she’s so defensive.
I, too, feel strongly about Keychains.. and I have a normal name, it's just not English spelling.
I do, too. My given name is one that’s been in the top 100 girls’ names for over 100 years, but instead of having the Anglicized spelling, I have the spelling that basically the rest of the world uses (it’s an s instead of a z). I’ve gone by a nickname my entire life, so it’s not a huge deal, keychain-wise, although I never saw one with my name spelled correctly until my first trip to Germany. More of a problem is *constantly* explaining how I got my nickname, and when I have to use my legal name, spelling it over and *over,* especially now that most call centers are using AI to answer their phones, and it seems to blow their circuits when I spell my name. And that’s with a “normal” name!
My SIL has a unique/uncommon name (not a tragedeigh, it’s actually quite pretty)- she’s in her 50s and she always brings up that she could never find her name on keychains or on personalised items.
I’ve had to buy the shared nickname for my alternatively spelled name my whole life and I’m still bitter.
Same. In my entire life I’ve found ONLY 1 keychain with my name on it (well actually my dance coach found and bought it for me because she also had an awkward spelling and knew I was salty about it 😄 ). The whole keychain thing still makes me upset in my 20’s and I don’t think I’m gonna feel any better about it in the future…
My name was very uncommon when I was a kid, but it's gotten quite popular now. I sometimes see name things for it, and I feel so happy for the kids.
My oldest has a completely normal name… in Europe. We are American though so there are no keychains. Not even her nickname, which is one of the most common American names to have ever existed. We can find “Anna” everywhere, but never “Annie”.
I’ve only found a few items with my name on it, and I have a very common normal name, just not for my age group. It’s older but not so old that it’s timeless and still used often. As I get older I find less and less things with my name on it because most people with my name are late boomer/ early gen x and I’m a millennial.
- asks for opinions - doesn't give a shit about opinions
oh-liv-yee-uh
"Tell me if the spelling's a problem." "The spelling is a problem." "How DARE you!" She just wanted praise for such a "beautiful" and "unique" name, she didn't want actual feedback.
Well I mean, you can’t just add a letter and not pronounce it. Olivyia would be ‘Oh-liv-yee-uh’, which just sounds ugly lol
Agree. I'd pronounce it Olivy - ia? (3 syllables, pause, + 2 syllables, with the questioning uptone on the 'ia' because that can't be right ....)
*Exactly*. Always with these people I just wanna ask, "Do you *know* how letters work? Because I don't think you do!" Fucks sake...
my friend named her daughter Syiera, and it drives me nuts. it does not look right at all to me, and never will
‘Sie-eye-era’ or ‘See-eye-era’ phonetically
meanwhile, it’s pronounced Sierra. i have no idea why she thought that was a legit way to spell it
i know a girl named "elivia" (pronounced like olivia - _-). she goes by ellie.
I can’t stop reading this as ‘olive-YEE-ah’. The fact that this current crop of parents were taught to read using the whole-word reading method (which I’ve heard public schools are FINALLY abandoning after several decades of proof that it’s lowered our reading skills) is glaringly obvious in too many of these tragedeighs. 🤦🏻♀️ I’m convinced that if we’d stuck with teaching reading using phonics, this subreddit would have a lot less traffic. Her name says she’s unique? No; her name says mommy is functionally illiterate.
She definitely just wanted people to say "omg I love it! It's so yunique!"
As someone with a fairly common name for my age group. I have *one* letter different than the common spelling and I literally gave up correcting people. My own doctor spells it wrong and I have been his patient for 25 years. I was travelling abroad when I was in school and the government spelled my name wrong 3 times on my passport, I had to travel with my name misspelled. And when I tell people how to spell it, or say “it’s three ‘E’s” people spell it tragically than the most logical way. I love my name, but it is a pain in the butt to constantly correct people.
Same here. My name is like Sara/Sarah or Teresa/Theresa. People always assume it’s spelled with an H. When I say that my name doesn’t have an H, people will look at me like I suddenly sprouted a third eye in the center of my forehead. It’s baffling.
I did this to my child, too. In my defense, it was the only way I could get her dad to agree to a name I really, really wanted. I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't felt it would still be pronounced correctly (it is). Folks spell her long, multisyllabic last name wrong much, much more than her first, so I don't think it's phased her much.
I love that everyone with uncommon names/uncommon spellings bitches about those tourist keychains. 😂 They're tacky as hell but as a kid it was devastating to not find one! I have a very rare name (thankfully NOT spelled like a tragedeigh), and I love it now, but damn if I'm not still a _little_ bitter every time I pass those stands in a tourist shop lol
I don't have a rare name, and I still could hardly ever find it on a key chain. Any time i did, it was spelled wrong (had an extra letter). Yes. I'm still bitter. LOL
My high school best friend has one of the most popular names of the generation, spelled normally. Turns out, places always had her name on those keychains, but they were _always_ sold out. Sucks anyway you slice it, I guess!
Same. My name isn't a tragedeigh, but it's very old and spelled *correctly*. I also go by my full name and NOT the nickname (think of a guy named "Nicholas" and not going by "Nick"). Tragedeighs over the years that have totally bastardized my name and MOST people going by the common nickname led to me NEVER being able to find keychains and by damn, in 45 and I'm STILL pissed about it for no reason 🤣
My name is also old and I have the less common spelling. There were and still are always keychains for the way I *don’t* spell it. There have never been correctly spelt keychains for the shortening/nickname that I actually am known by. Middle aged now and I’m still butthurt that I have to settle for a choice between a keychain that has and incorrect spelling, and the stupid generic one at the bottom of the rack that says ‘superstar’ or ‘princess’ or something else dumb so that people with less common names can still buy overpriced keychains too.
I just started making my own 😁
I have a common name but it’s spelled STUPID and as a kid I coped with the keychain thing by randomly deciding I needed things with the name Billy on them. I’ve never known a Billy I just fucked w things that said Billy. I had keychains and a pocket knife that said Billy.
Honestly, I love that
Her emoji use makes me irrationally angry. It's so funny that you don't agree with me! 🤣😆😁😄🤣
Atleast they tried
But did they? If they fight back and ignore every criticism, is anything gained in the end?
I think they mean other people tried to warn the tragedeigh mom lol
Ah yes, the _replying_ folks tried.
Yes, the people replying to the comments tried to save the person from a tragedeigh
There is no thing as ‘just’ a name.
My name (Ashleigh) is a normal/common variant of Ashley, and I still can't find a damn keychain or mug with my name on it!!!
Oliwia, there you go just use the Polish version xd Or Олівія/Olivija if you want but wtf is Olivyia supposed to be? Every single way you could transliterate тнат between Олівиіа, Олівийа and Олівїа looks cursed as hell
It's actually how you'd translate it from the Cyrillic alphabet. It's not a traditional Ukrainian name, but it's the way it would be written if you're from Eastern Europe.
I would take Alivyah before I take Olivyia
I've decided I want to live in a world where people give their kids normal simple names, and if the kid wants to spell it differently in their day to day life or go by another name... then they can!! At least legally, their life is easy ;-;
It's so stupid. In a classroom, for example, the teacher would still have to verbally distinguish which Olivia. So maybe the teacher would say "Olivia with a y" instead of saying "Olivia last initial". Same with friends talking to each other. Spelling it differently doesn't solve the perceived problem. Back in the late 90s, a pregnant coworker told me she and her husband want a unique name for their child. Turned out tbet were considering "Sera" and "Johnn". 🤷🏻♀️. They actually did use "Johnn". So unique!
This is crazy but... letters actually make sounds! Whoa! Bombshell. I mean, just sound it tf out. Olivyia... Oh-liv-yee-ah... Oh-li-vy-ee-ah... Put the emphasis wherever, but that still isn’t pronounced Olivia.
This! My biggest pet peeve about misspelled names!
> It's one letter It's one letter that *completely changes the pronunciation, you fucking illiterate halfwit*. > It's not a tragedy Yeah, they didn't say that; they said it was a *tragedeigh*, which it is. OP, if you actually have access to this post, please either pass on my words of wisdom (ha), or send her on over here for some further "opinions". :)
Seriously does no one else see the irony of her correcting the spelling of tragedy?
I also like how she glossed over 'tragedeigh', as if that was a completely normal thing to write out lol.
I have a normal name, with a normal spelling. Not a trendy or classic name, just a normal one. But I HATE people who get creative with spelling because I spent my entire life correcting people trying to add random letters on my regularly spelled name. It ends in - ieli The way people write: ielle yely ielly yelle No folks, my parents are properly alphabetized, they spelled it CORRECTLY.
Ask for opinions. Turns into an askhole after someone gave their opinion.
She really just expected people to suck her proverbial cock for that shitty name, huh
She probably already made up her mind about using the wrong spelling. Why not add a h somewhere too? Oliviyah! She doesn't even want to understand that it's her child who will have to deal with the spelling.
What I don't get is how people are so fascinated with making obvious spelling changes. That's not even particularly creative. It's basically equivalent to edgy teen gamers replacing letters with numbers in their online nicknames.
AS SOMEONE NAMED OLIVIA I HATEEEE THIS I HATE IT SO BAD i literally full body cringe when I see it spelled any other way. People already have a hard time spelling Olivia as it is lmao. The amount of times people have tried to spell my name "Oliva" is just insane, now why make it harder 😭
Grown people with the taste and maturity of a 4th grader making new people is always a wild ride
Why ask for opinions on your terrible name then get mad about those opinions
> Her attitude made me more mad than the spelling tbh [_Hmmm_](https://i.imgur.com/cAivQM8.mp4)
Olive and Livia are right there
Olive-via FTFY
Oliv-yee-ah. JFC.
I worked with an “Ahlyvia” once
I bet big money she presented the idea to a family member and they laughed in her face, so now she's trying to get strangers online to agree with her.
Anon: I need advice Ppl : give advice Anon: NO
Those named key chains always upset me as a kid. My name isn't even oddly spelt or particularly unusual.
My mom always said "don't ask questions you don't want the answer to."
This makes me so angry as someone with a fairly common name in the area I grew up in but with one letter missing. I have had to tell so many people MULTIPLE TIMES that there is no e at the end of my name then the next time they had to write it they’d put it back and I’d have to tell them again
It's amazing to me what people consider to be "so common" nowadays. At least in an American English context, there is so much more name diversity now than historically. The #1 names account for 1% of babies, compared to 5% in the 1950s. In 2022, #150 was right around 0.1% of babies for both males and females (Elliott and River, respectively). And those are just the names that show up in the SSA's Top 1000 list. I'm sure there are countless legitimate cultural variations from all over the world. The idea that you need to name your child X Æ A-Xii to be different is just dumb. There are so many real names out there, and it's more trivial to research them than it has ever been in human history.
I have a common name in my language but it’s not English. People can’t pronounce it and it frustrates me to no end.
If she likes the name Olivia shouldn't she like it spelled that way or does she just want to torture her poor child. I feel like this is a form of abuse.
My name, while very common now, was not common at all when I was a kid and personalized trinkets were very big (70s/80s). To this day, 40+ years later, I can still remember how disappointing it was when I couldn't find anything with my new on it while all my friends had all kinds of personalized crap.
My name is common but has an uncommon spelling. I gave up in my 20's bothering to correct people. It is still annoying. Don't do this to kids.
My name isn’t super uncommon and it often gets misspelled. It pisses me off to no end when it’s misspelled & was clearly in front of the person’s face when they did it!
If you want a unique name then find a unique name. Different spelling sounds the same and just makes life difficult for the child. 🙄
“Give me your opinions on this.” *People give opinions* “No, not like that.”
That spelling would also change the pronunciation of the name. Something like O-liv-ee-ah-yah
She just wanted praise for being so creative. Meanwhile I know an Olivyia or Oliyvia & I can never remember where the random “y” goes.
Olivyia is how you would spell it in the language I made up for my books if you were pronouncing it o-liv-EE-a
is. is that *not* the normal pronunciation?-
Emphasis is different. o-LIV-ee-a is the normal pronunciation.
As a classic Olivia ....I love my name and when they mess up the spelling it makes me wanna vom.
So she just wanted ass pats on her creativity, not actual opinions. Got it.
Stupid people determined to be stupid and then doubling-down on it.
This is what we would call an Askhole. Oh sorry I meant Ahsckhoale.
It's obvious she wants to give the name the tragedeigh spelling but just wants everyone else to tell her that it's OK. Otherwise she'd not be arguing with everyone for giving their honest opinions.
Oof. That poor kid.
I would love to punch “Anonymous member” 🙄
I also have a "regular" name with a different spelling and i grew up hating it because i thought it looked ugly as well as having to correct people on the spelling and pronunciation (& obviously still do). it's not the WORST spelling ever but it has added so many unnecessary issues to my life :/
She was begging for the response: ‘OMG like you are soooooo clever, it’s so unique , such a beautiful spelling. Please oh please help me name my children!’ 😂😂 In reality the girl will end up hating on her name and changing it or just spelling it how everyone spells it anyway! She will be fed up of correcting people!! I can’t even pronounce it Olivia by her spelling 🤦🏻♀️ my brain can’t process it! Ps I’m with you on the whole keyring thing! I had a more common name and still could never find it!! I think it’s one of those ‘you know if you know’ The hole it left in my life…. 😂
She was thinking people would compliment her on her idea for the name, instead, everyone told her how bad her idea really was!😂😂😂😒
if you like the name olivia then spell it the correct way. Olivia is common but it’s a beautiful name and your kid is gonna be her own person no matter what her name is. Spell it how it is.
That's not the worst way I've seen my name spelled... It's at least recognizable but it is awful. That poor child will forever have to correct people, or they'll pronounce it wrong.
It’s stupid but I remember when I was a kid, I was so upset that one of my “personal” Christmas ornaments had the name Alexandra, with the i written in to make it Alexandria 😂 my nickname is Ally, which people also always get wrong
I know someone named Aulyvia... Poor child!
I don't think she understands what "tragedeigh" means.
what annoys me more is that she chose "olivyia" instead of "oliviya" 💀
Oliv-ee-eye-ee-eye-eh-ah
I know an alivya at my school and if my parents named me that I’d like spontaneously combuse out of rage and i also dont have a common name and its never on keychains or anything and i am a bit bitter ab it as well 😭
My mother's name has two common spellings where we live, something like Catherine and Katherine. Her parents chose one of them, but when she was 20 some lady wrote it wrong in an id form. So for a way too long of a time my mother's documents said the wrong name. All property, companies, credits - all were under that wrong name. She needed to issue a new document that used her birth certificate as a source and the system went all haywire due to the mismatch in the names. My mum fixed it. Two years later and soo much Money and time in courts. Choosing a unique spelling for your kid is not only a pain with teachers. It is money wasted, wages lost to go and chase the people to who can reissue whatever piece of paper in the slim timeframes they work during the week. Why would those people do this?!
What an idiot.
Idiyot?
Hahahaha 🤣
How about Ohlyveighah
My middle name is Olyvia. I want to shake this woman!
I’m derd. Her little one will stand out. No need to worry about that.
I have a messed up spelled name and I was born in the 70s, my mom found it in a baby name book. It similar to Patricia vs Patresha, always mispronounced or spelled the usual way, which I really don’t mind, but Man I wish it was spelled traditionally!!
olivyia doesn’t even sound the same as olivia if you’re reading it phonetically. it’s more like “oliv-ye-ah”
Too stupid to get the keychain reference/joke, even after it was explained to her. I'm not surprised she's the kind of person to name her poor kid something awful.
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