SMS language sparks off unusually spelt baby names trend!
March 6th, 2008 - 4:00 pm ICT by admin
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Sydney, March 6 (ANI): The popular SMS and email phonetic spellings have not only corrupted the English language, but have also sparked a trend of unusually spelt baby names.
Most parents these days are drawing on the cool SMS and email spellings, by eschewing traditional spellings for versions such as Alex-Zander, Cam’ron, Emma-Lee, Ozkah, Thaillah and Ameleiyah.
Social analyst Mark McCrindle looked at Australian births in 2007 and discovered that the name Jayden was registered spelt in 12 ways, Aidan in nine ways, and Amelia and Tahlia in eight ways.
The name Lachlan had five other versions - Lochlyn, Lochlin, Lochlen, Lochlain and Lauchlan.
“The use of a ‘y’ instead of an ‘i’ has hit epidemic proportions, as has the use of ‘k’ over ‘c’ like in the names Jaykob and Lynkon, double letters like Siimon and Chriss and hyphens like Emma-Lee,” News.com.au quoted McCrindle, of private research agency McCrindle Research, as saying.
He added that the increasing trend could be attributed to the phonetic spelling in email and text messaging and to parents wanting their children to be prominent.
“Gen X parents were the first generation to grow up themselves with mum not staying home with the kids or their parents divorcing, and they hated their parents not being around to show them love, he said.
“Knowing they will probably recreate some of those sins, they now are naming their kids uniquely to show how individual and special they are to them.
“There is also a bit of backlash against the conservative names like Jack, Ella and Olivia, he added. (ANI)
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March 8th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing
March 8th, 2008 at 3:31 am
What I really wonder is if the individuals naming their kids with phonetic versions of names is if they realise - is it deliberate - of is that how they spell normally or naturally in day to day life… ?
March 11th, 2008 at 12:51 am
yes perhaps we could go the way of Denmark and have a government approved list for baby names http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/08/news/danes.php
“And doesn’t this trend undermine our ability to find people on the Internet?”
What? Seriously? come on, the more common someones name the harder it is to find them on the internet, people with uncommon spellings corner the market on person SEO. My friend John Smith, will never make it to the first page of search results, and even if he did, no one would know it was him, versus all the other people with his very common name.
I think that giving your children names that can differentiate them from other is definitely a boon, not a handicap in the world of search. Besides uncommon names are more memorable, not less.
The writer of the study that you quote should probably do a bit more research linking these naming trends to SMS and email usage seems quite a stretch and their “research” does little to back up this claim