r/tragedeigh

A little girl we met at the park had this name today 😬. Her mom asked me how I spell my daughter’s name and I said the “usual way”. I asked if she spelled “Persephone” different and she spelled this tragedeigh for me. I didn’t know what to say.

i recently stumbled across historical baby name data from 1918 in huffpost and noticed some... interesting choices parents made over a century ago.

two notable examples i found were Normal and Chlorine.

since "tragedeighs" are usually modern misspelled names (like Khlorreene), do you consider weird/unfortunate standard-spelling names from 100 years ago to be "tragedies", or do they fit into the same category?

Grown woman, dad is Cliff. Rural Appalachia. I think about it OFTEN. She said no nicknames, she goes by Clifftany

Considering baby names and ran across Jayma pronounced “Jay-ma” literally like it’s spelled. So many people see it and say “Ja-mya” or some other abomination like “Ja-mi-e-ah.”

Don’t want to give a beautiful name that will get tragedeigh pronunciations or is that just a sign of the times/education system/reading level?

"Like the princess," they said.

My niece’s name is ‘Abbegayle’. Is that a tragedeigh enough for here, because I’ve been looking at it for soooooo long… I loved the name until I saw this.
Edit for spelling ‘niece’

Reading a playbill for an upcoming play being done by our local community theater.

This play has several parts for children and one role is being played by a "Mauleigh" Smith(not actual last name)

Their parents should be place in a stockade and have cabbages thrown at them.