Had to pull rank before my wife had my daughter’s name misspelled at birth. Michelle with one L, is what she wanted.
It’s bad enough she’s going to have to spell her last name every time someone hears it like I have my whole life. Of course she’ll marry some day and that won’t be a problem.
Trying to be trendy, my sister named her daughter Mollee with a french accent thing over the 1st “e”
My niece, who is now 14, got sick of explaining how to spell her name so she dropped the french accent. lol
“Had to pull rank before my wife had my daughter’s name misspelled at birth. Michelle with one L, is what she wanted.
It’s bad enough she’s going to have to spell her last name every time someone hears it like I have my whole life. Of course she’ll marry some day and that won’t be a problem.”
Good for you. Really. A persons name should always be the formal form not the nickname. Nicknames are for childhood and close friends. My Father(Bobby Joe) always had the problem up until the 90s with people writing down the formal Robert instead of Bobby, including the Navy. That can have serious consequences with serious documents. Of course I have the problem since the mid 90s of having to spell my name(Benjamin). Before hand everybody knew how to spell that and my last name is a generic Scot/Irish name that spells like it sounds. Yet I have to spell that out as well.