# More Khree'atyvve \[Creative\] Names, Anyone?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 1, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660 "2010-04-01T23:00:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/1 "2010-04-01T23:00:51Z")
I saw these first names on somobody’s kid’s class photo and had to share. Some of them are just bad spellings, and some of them I don’t know how to pronounce:
Dasjah
Anijah
Tre’Len
Caege
Za’Lin
Amarie
Erionna
Khristian
Quevon [pronounced like “Kevin”]
Any more new good ones to share?
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/2 "2010-04-01T23:31:31Z")
Taijuan (pronounced Taiwan).
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/3 "2010-04-01T23:42:40Z")
I know a Rachel who spells her name Raquel, and an Alexandra who uses to Xs.
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### Author:  [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/4 "2010-04-02T00:01:31Z")
One that I’ve seen multiple times recently is “Jaxson”. If you want to be kool like dat, just leave out the S altogether … it still sounds the same!
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### Author:  [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/5 "2010-04-02T00:30:38Z")
Bionca
Calob
Emma-Lee
All had the same mother. They’re _just_ “creative” enough (especially the first two) to look like misspellings.
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### Author:  [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/6 "2010-04-02T01:27:22Z")
5 years ago (and she has the graduation class program) my sibling who teaches high school in the south graduated young Miss Asshole. (Pronounced Ash Oh Lay)
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### Author:  [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/7 "2010-04-02T04:08:31Z")
Ityanna.
Pronounced eye-tee-yawn-uh
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### Author:  [@wombatinspats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombatinspats)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/8 "2010-04-02T08:33:50Z")
The last time I was at the dentist he was telling me about this child patient of his called ‘N-a’, which, because the parents are just that cool, you pronounce as ‘Na-dash-a’. I hope she doesn’t get called ‘not applicable’ all her life. Or ‘Na-hyphen-a’ by more grammatically inclined people.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/9 "2010-04-02T08:56:12Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> I know a Rachel who spells her name Raquel
That’s just the Spanish spelling. If we have to put up with the Ysobels, y’all can take the Raqueles 🙂
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### Author:  [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/10 "2010-04-02T10:15:41Z")
YA-soble? Yes-O-bel? How do you say that?
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/11 "2010-04-02T12:27:22Z")
My mother hung a Very Creative name on me, for my first name.
You will notice that I vastly prefer to go by Lynn. Sometimes it gets misspelled a bit, but it’s NEVER mispronounced. I used to dread the new school year, not because I hated school (I rather liked it) but because I knew that between my first name, and Bodoni, the teacher or teachers would mispronounce my name for at least the first couple of months. I had the same gym teacher for three years, and she never was able to pronounce either my first or last name, and seemed to hold me personally responsible for my names.
I allow my blood relatives and my oldest, dearest friend to call me by my first name. Nobody else has that privilege. And when my parents die, I’m legally dropping my first name, so I can put Lynn down as my first name.
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### Author:  [@shorin-ryu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shorin-ryu)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/12 "2010-04-02T12:31:35Z")
I received paperwork for someone named Dlizabeth. I though maybe it was a typo, but no, that’s how she hand-wrote her name, too. How do you pronounce Dlizabeth?
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/13 "2010-04-02T12:36:17Z")
Some of the first names of students that I have had:
Captain, pronounced cap-tayn.
Dijonaisse. I guess her mom was frightened by a jar of mustard or something.
Ra’kel, pronounced with a long a.
Interesting sidenote: back in the 70s, the Texas Department of Public Safety undertook a massive conversion from paper driver’s license files to computerization. They set up a series of logic checks to make sure the data entry was valid. One of them checked to see that there were letters only in the names, and they had about a dozen rejects of people whose legal first name was T9C.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/14 "2010-04-02T12:55:26Z")
> [@wombatinspats](#):
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> The last time I was at the dentist he was telling me about this child patient of his called ‘N-a’, which, because the parents are just that cool, you pronounce as ‘Na-dash-a’. I hope she doesn’t get called ‘not applicable’ all her life. Or ‘Na-hyphen-a’ by more grammatically inclined people.
Welcome to the board, **wombatinspats**. Until somebody posts a birth certificate for N-a or La-a, I’m not going to believe this. Nothing personal, I’ve just heard it too many times. It’s todays Oranjello and Lemonjello.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/15 "2010-04-02T13:13:24Z")
> [@Chief\_Pedant](#):
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> (Pronounced Ash Oh Lay)
Not by me, it isn’t.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/16 "2010-04-02T14:14:17Z")
There’s nothing to see here, really.
> [@EvilTOJ](#):
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> YA-soble? Yes-O-bel? How do you say that?
It’s pronounced the same as Isabel. The spelling _Ysobel_ is at least 80 years old. In _Very Good, Jeeves!_ by P.G. Wodehouse (1930), Aunt Dalia scolds Bertie by saying:
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> “You sit there and tell me you haven’t enough sense to steer clear of a girl who calls herself Gwladys? Listen, Bertie,” said Aunt Dahlia earnestly, “I’m an older woman than you are – well you know what I mean – and I can tell you a thing or two. And one of them is that no good can come of association with anything labelled Gwladys or Ysobel or Ethyl or Mabelle or Kathryn.”
These days we wouldn’t blink at _Ethyl_ instead of _Ethel_, _Mabelle_ instead of _Mabel_, or _Kathryn_ instead of _Catherine_. _Gwladys_ probably looks strange to most of us, but I put that down to the rarity of _Gladys_ altogether.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/17 "2010-04-02T14:39:22Z")
> [@acsenray](#):
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> These days we wouldn’t blink at _Ethyl_ instead of _Ethel_
Sure I would; that’s an organic chemistry group, not a name.
“Raquel” is a fine name as long as it’s pronounced as in the pronunciation of actress Raquel Welch’s name. If it’s pronounced “Rachel” then I’ll sneer at it, unless that’s a proper pronunciation in another language.
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### Author:  [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/18 "2010-04-02T14:43:33Z")
> [@wombatinspats](#):
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> The last time I was at the dentist he was telling me about this child patient of his called ‘N-a’, which, because the parents are just that cool, you pronounce as ‘Na-dash-a’. I hope she doesn’t get called ‘not applicable’ all her life. Or ‘Na-hyphen-a’ by more grammatically inclined people.
[Sounds like an urban legend to me.](http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp)
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/19 "2010-04-02T15:08:28Z")
> [@Avarie537](#):
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> Dasjah
> Anijah
> Tre’Len
> Caege
> Za’Lin
> Amarie
> Erionna
> Khristian
> Quevon
Is that the bridge crew or the away party?
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-khreeatyvve-creative-names-anyone/534660/20 "2010-04-02T17:03:23Z")
> [@Chief\_Pedant](#):
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> 5 years ago (and she has the graduation class program) my sibling who teaches high school in the south graduated young Miss Asshole. (Pronounced Ash Oh Lay)
This, I’m afraid, will require supporting documentation to pass the smell test as well. So to speak.
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