I know at least one who did. She legally changed her name and wrote everyone in the office a long, long email about why. She’s a very conscientious person and it hurt her so deeply to have all this hate connected to her name.
If his siblings have kids he’ll be Uncle Ruckus, like the character on Boondocks.
Some years ago I ran into several children who had a hyphen incorporated into their name – for example ‘A - a’, pronounced Adasha. I’ve often wondered how many did legal changes asap.
To Ahyphena?
When I was a food stamp lady, one of my clients named all four of her children after Diablo characters. The only one I can remember now is Imperious.
Well, my dad was named Lazard. He went by Larry.
That’s very common nowadays, as well as the spelling “Skyler”. I haven’t seen a “Schuyler” in many years. Similarly, Ashleigh is more commonly spelled Ashley nowadays.
Sounds like something Sarah Palin would name a kid.
It’s shit like this that make you one of my favorite Dopers!
Some websites offering advice on picking baby names refer to “Issac” as a “variant” of Isaac, and “Chasity” as a “variant” or “shortened” version of Chastity.
Apparently it would be judgmental to refer to parents as dumbasses for not bothering to check on how to spell the names they foist on their children.
It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of Schuylers would prefer to spell it Skylar so people wouldn’t address them as “Shiler”. Or even “Shooler”.
I knew a lady with a kid named Knowledge. She had high hopes for him. Too bad his knowledge of laws didn’t keep him from the penitentiary.
I can’t talk. My kids have weird names for the grandwrex. It’s all so silly.
Yeah, I’ve posted my grandson’s name before, but maybe I shouldn’t. There can’t be many kids of that name running around.
I wouldn’t consider mine common. But, yeah, a senator has the same name.
It’s not just weird spellings that are an issue. I saw an article about the 100th anniversay of Conan Doyles first Sherlock Holmes story, and one young man mentioned in the article was named, you guess it, Sherlock Holmes. His mom had been a fan.
I fully expect someone to name girl and boy twins Cersei and Jaime.
Imma name my twins Cecil and Adam
I saw a news article about parents who had named their daughter Isis, before it became known as the name of a terrorist group.
I don’t think I have ever seen “Schuyler” as a first name. It’s always Skyler or Skylar. The Schuyler one seems like the weird one to me.
OK, but how did the misspelling/variant spelling become established en masse, while all the Issacs keep changing their names?
Could be.
Wikipedia lists a few Schuylers with various dates of birth between 1823 and 1996, but only a couple of Skyl[a/e]rs born before 1980 and those are outliers, the vast majority being under age 35.
The Skylars/Skylers are simply being spelled phonetically.
Issac is an obvious misspelling, as phonetically it isn’t Isaac. Issac would have a short “I”. Isaac would have a long “I”. The general concensus is that the exhausted parents accidentally misspelled it. Or it was transcribed incorrectly.