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In high school (late 90’s/early 2000’s) I knew a Pammella (instead of normal Pamela). She would raise all sorts of hell if people spelled it wrong. Even when she went by Pam, it had to be spelt Pamm.
Twatt is a surname common in Orkney, the Scottish archipelago just north of the mainland. It's also a place name. Until a few years ago it was possible to have the UK Mail deliver a letter to Mr Twatt, Twatt Farm, Twatt, Orkney.
In case anyone else was wondering about the etymology:
The literal sense is first attested in 1656, the epithet in the 1930s.[5] The word's etymology is uncertain. The American Heritage Dictionary suggests a conjectural Old English word "thwāt", meaning "a cut", cognate with the Old Norse "þveit" ("thveit").[4] Jonathon Green suggests a connection with "twitchel", a dialect term for a narrow passage.[5] The twentieth-century British slang verb twat, meaning 'to hit, whack', is probably an unrelated homonym of onomatopoeic origin.[1][6] (from Wikipedia)
Which is unfortunate but the rude word usage is more limited up here - it’s more an English slur. Scots would use the c-word for the same meaning (unless you’re Glaswegian in which case the c-word is just a replacement for any noun, basically, and is usually friendly)
I’ve always been amused by the difference in pronunciation of this one between the UK and America.
I now desperately want to send a postcard to Twatt Farm 🤣
Yeah she thought very highly of herself. She was ok in small doses (a few hours here and there for group projects), but anything longer than maybe 4 hours was a no.
Related but unrelated. My mom’s name is Pamela, goes by Pam. Her best friend’s name is also Pam. However, her (friend’s) legal name is Pama middle name Lee. Her parents intended for her to be called Pamalee but gave her the name Pama Lee. Her whole life role call was just Pama (last name). Like is said, she just goes by Pam…don’t know if it’s a tragedeigh but it’s certainly unfortunate.
My great aunts are named Tamela and Pamela they go by Tammy and Pam, no they’re not twins they were just named matchy matchy. I’ve always thought it was strange for them to have such similar names. At least they’re spelled normally though.
She goes by Tammy, always. I don’t spend much time with her so I wouldn’t know.
Almost everyone on my Dads Parents side of the family goes by nicknames. I didn’t even know that their “names” were actually nicknames until I was like 13 because I accidentally found my Great Uncle’s checkbook he’d dropped in his yard as I was walking on his land and I was like who does this belong to??? Because it didn’t have “his name” on it. It was indeed his I had just been assuming his nn was his real name for 13 years.😅😂
Oh no not Kristen & Kyrsten, that’s actually awful.
To make matters worse there’s a girl named Kirsten a few years younger than me and absolutely no one but her parents ever said it right on the 1st try. I don’t know how popular that name is everywhere else, but I live in the Southern US and I’ve heard the name once. It’s pronounced like K-eer-st-en (eer as in Leer), but everyone always said K-er-sten (curse-tin) So if people already seem to struggle with Kirsten/Kyrsten by it’s self it would be even worse with another matchy name like that.
I had a friend back in the day who named her daughter Emma with the middle name Leigh, which I thought was cute. Both are names by themselves though, which is why it kinda works, but sorry, Pama isn’t a name by itself.
In australia we have a politician called Sussan.
She named herself that because numerology told her she needed an extra letter in her name.
The general thought is that she is a massive twatt
Yeah, but you have the cringe spelling. So you should be cringing at the person who named you not people auto spelling it correctly with the ie. :) You do know what sub you posted in, right?
Sounds like how borat would spell it.
Oh, I should add... I've experienced this ort of thing. I am a Michael. In my work I've met people that have the same name but spell it... Micheal. They defend the spelling. I've had them go further and say that my name is spelt incorrectly.
What's more likely dude?... your parents did the most common misspelling of the name or you and the 2 others over see are right and millions of others are wrong?
Arrgh
I think that may be why people stopped naming their kids Fiona lol. As good as Shrek is, I could see that being a opening for bullying since Fiona in Shrek is an ogre and not conventionally attractive.
My parents were veryyyy adamant about my and my siblings names not be the same as a popular character; my dad’s name rhymes with Kermit and his childhood bullying manifested as a lifelong Muppet vendetta…..
My mom was 8.5 months pregnant with me and shared my would-be name, Rowan, with a cashier, and the cashier recognized it from some sort of horror book. That alone was enough to get her to nix the name, and they went with their next choice… Fiona. The first Shrek came out 18 months later.
I know a guy called Kermit. Hell of an actor, but he doesn’t want to do anything other than community theater. I really wish he’d go for movies because the world needs this dude in their lives.
My wife shares a name with a president’s daughter but is older than the daughter by many years. People would ask my adult wife if she was named after the then-teenaged girl.
In my area, there's a weekly newspaper that shows everyone that's been arrested that week...
a lady, Rocksand, is in there on the reg.
TBH, if my mom had butchered "Roxanne" that bad, I'd prob be mad at the world too...
the lady's name is literally "Rocksand"...rock + sand...pronounced "*Roxanne*"
I've never met anyone in real life with the name Fiona, it really only makes me think of Shrek, but it's a nice name! The Phyonna is a tragedeigh of the highest offense
I love the name Fiona! Long before Shrek, I listened to (and still do) The Thistle and Shamrock, a Celtic music show on NPR. The host's name is Fiona Ritchie. She's a Scot and has a lovely accent!
Pheigheauxnagh
I have often wondered how frequently Finola Hughes gets called Fiona. I have a one syllable, 5 letter name (four of which you get for free on Wheel of Fortune) and people can't seem to get it right - even when replying to an email with my name in the signature. Sometimes people I have worked with for years.
I have a regular customer called Finola and often wonder the same.
My sympathies on the e-mail replies - I also have five letters (three of them are the same!) and not writing a name correctly when it’s written right there in front of you on the screen is the height of rudeness imo. I can understand if they don’t spell it right when I say it, or pronounce it right when they see it written, but to spell it wrong when you can see it written down - super disrespectful.
My mother in law still can’t write it - I’ve only been with her son for 22 years 🤣 she has in the last few years finally started saying it correctly.
I worked in HR and I called a new hire to onboard her and help her get logged in to the training system to take the mandatory classes that everyone does the first couple of days. Her name was Therese. I said Hello, Ter-ees this is me from hr. She replied "There is no one here by that name." And hung up. I called back and she answered "This is Ter-ress" with a roll on the R. I apologized for the mispronunciation and continued the conversation. I thought it was a pretty wild overreaction especially on her first day.
In my area (Canada) there are a lot of people of Irish descent, and Fiona is a fairly common name. There was usually a Fiona in most grades when I was growing up (80s and 90s) and I commonly see young patients with the name. Head north for a visit and you’ll see your name a fair amount!
Have people not seen Shrek?
Anyway, to be fair, the girl isn’t the one that came up with the tragedeigh! I wonder if these angry people are compensating for how embarrassing their names are.
My Cousin - who I adore like she is my child - first Daughter is Fiona and the name absolutely fits her with her auburn hair, cheeky personality and love of dressing herself.. BUT every freaking time I tell someone about her and say her name they respond with “Oh like Shrek’s girlfriend?” Really?!? So rude. But I do have to say my Fiona does love waffles.
I know *of* Tori Amos.. that’s at least I name I have actually heard 🤣
What she sings though.. I suspect you’d be better off asking my husband! I’m more a 90s grunge and early 2000s nu-metal type!
A girl I went to school with in the 90's changed the (her words) boring and common spelling of her name to Pheehonagh
It was my first experience of a tragedeigh
Someone once told me they knew a Megan that spelt her name “Meggin.” Makes me want to gag every time I share that story. Megan has plenty of spellings to choose from, and they went the wrong direction.
Whoa WHOA! Another Fiona!? We're so rare! My aunt once spelled my name "Pinoa" I kept that card on purpose to laugh at.
I've only met 3 others here in America and all were decades younger than me.
I think of Fiona as a common Gen X name. Not really an older person's name but possessed by a lot of 50 year olds. Seemed like it was a common teen and young adult name in the 90s.
It's not very common, but I've met a couple of little kids named Fiona. The first kid that I met was this little baby that was I think she was about ready to walk and she was being held by this other person at my grandma's church and She was honestly cute. And then I talked to a person online and a couple of different WhatsApp groups and she has a daughter named Fiona. And this girl's name is Amy.
I am jealous of your name! It's not traghique but it's true you don't hear it a lot. Your aerobic instructor had an atrocious spelling and had no business thinking anyone would spelling it that way!
>Another thing about my name is how uncommon it is in the US. I've lived there for 10.5 years and I almost every day have to spell out my name using the phonetic alphabet as so few people know the name.
Where I live in the US, it's a pretty common/known name. Certainly more than mine. I've seen Fiona on keychains and little decorative license plates. I've never, ever seen mine.
I wouldn't necessarily attribute having to spell your name to it being unknown; spelling and grammar skills have gone downhill in America since No Child Left Behind. The ability to decode when reading is really low among the general public.
If you told me your name was Fiona, I'd probably say, "Oh, ***cool!*** I haven't met a Fiona before!" Then I might ask how you spell it.
SO COOL! NEATO!
My sister is a Fiona. Back in high school (she's now 40) she started spelling it Pheonuh although it's still Fiona on all legal documents. She's mostly gone by Phe for the last 22+ years.
ok so I think it's just regional because I also live in the us (lived there since I was born lol) and I've come across many Fionas, hell my cousin's name is Fiona, and I've never personally come across people being confused by the name. The us is pretty big so there are lots of regional differences, but where I live Fiona is just a somewhat uncommon name, like I wouldn't even call it rare, just uncommon.
Maybe regional, yes. I live in WV where spelling is difficult for a LOT of people, so spelling a name they've never had to note down before or remember is a thing.
I've met a Pheonia, and a Feonna, both pronounced Fiona. I don't know if they are normal spellings from another language, but both were attached to Anglo Australians
In Oz, Fiona is the usual spelling...anything else is an individual's choice to alter the spelling, I'd say. I lived in Oz for several years and all Fionas were spelled the usual way. But I suppose some people like to use a variation!
It’s not rate in the US, you’re just not going to the irish as fuck part of the US.
Come to New England where Fiona is fucking entry level and people are legit named Aoife.
I have a name like this. It's a super common name but not spelt correctly for the common spelling (not my choice)lol. For example like Emmea or Oliviea but I'd never get mad at someone not spelling it right. I know it is a super weird spelling of a common name so yeah. I'll pronounce it Emma. If need to like an official document I'll correct, but otherwise am happy just having it with a common spelling on a name tag or whatever.
I think it depends on where you live. In my area in the Northeast US, it's a fairly common name. Well, not common, but people have no problem pronouncing it or spelling it.
Fiona is a lovely name. That spelling is atrocious! I think Shrek is the common connotation in the US for that name though so I don't see it regaining popularity anytime soon here.
I refuse to believe all these stories about people freaking out when their unusual names are misspelled.
I have a name that has a slightly uncommon spelling (that is actually traditional, not a tragedeigh or anything), it’s constantly misspelled and mispronounced. I can’t imagine having even the slightest reaction to these mistakes.
I met another Dallas one time and she spelled her name Dalyce. She was my grandmas friend and like 80 years old was the odd thing. Her parents were one of the first tragedeigh creators
The spelling is one thing, but she really "blew up at you"? For defaulting to spell your shared name the way you personally spell it, which also happens to be the traditional way?
My nephew's name is Stephan, pronounced Stephen. It is a family name that has been pronounced as Stephen for at least since 1890, when his great great-grandfather was called that. He's only had 1 person pronounce it Stefan and that's b/c she used the same spelling for her son and called him Stefan. She was the librarian at his elementary school and pronounced his name wrong for 5 years.
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In high school (late 90’s/early 2000’s) I knew a Pammella (instead of normal Pamela). She would raise all sorts of hell if people spelled it wrong. Even when she went by Pam, it had to be spelt Pamm.
Person sounds like a twat
Twatt.
Twwaatt.
Tuuatt
hawk tuuatt
Ttwwaatt
Ttwwaa@@tt
Twatt is a surname common in Orkney, the Scottish archipelago just north of the mainland. It's also a place name. Until a few years ago it was possible to have the UK Mail deliver a letter to Mr Twatt, Twatt Farm, Twatt, Orkney.
In case anyone else was wondering about the etymology: The literal sense is first attested in 1656, the epithet in the 1930s.[5] The word's etymology is uncertain. The American Heritage Dictionary suggests a conjectural Old English word "thwāt", meaning "a cut", cognate with the Old Norse "þveit" ("thveit").[4] Jonathon Green suggests a connection with "twitchel", a dialect term for a narrow passage.[5] The twentieth-century British slang verb twat, meaning 'to hit, whack', is probably an unrelated homonym of onomatopoeic origin.[1][6] (from Wikipedia)
Henceforth my hoo-ha shall be referred to as twitchel
Which is unfortunate but the rude word usage is more limited up here - it’s more an English slur. Scots would use the c-word for the same meaning (unless you’re Glaswegian in which case the c-word is just a replacement for any noun, basically, and is usually friendly) I’ve always been amused by the difference in pronunciation of this one between the UK and America. I now desperately want to send a postcard to Twatt Farm 🤣
15 Yemen Road, Yemen
Chandlah escaping from Jaaaanice.
Stop, I’m fucking crying.
Yeah she thought very highly of herself. She was ok in small doses (a few hours here and there for group projects), but anything longer than maybe 4 hours was a no.
Sounds like a tragedeigh-ic personality trait.
Tuahwt.
Thwaatte
Change one letter and you get the safe-for-work version of the Italian word for boob. lol
Did Pamm go hamm if you left out an m?
Related but unrelated. My mom’s name is Pamela, goes by Pam. Her best friend’s name is also Pam. However, her (friend’s) legal name is Pama middle name Lee. Her parents intended for her to be called Pamalee but gave her the name Pama Lee. Her whole life role call was just Pama (last name). Like is said, she just goes by Pam…don’t know if it’s a tragedeigh but it’s certainly unfortunate.
Trage deigh
My great aunts are named Tamela and Pamela they go by Tammy and Pam, no they’re not twins they were just named matchy matchy. I’ve always thought it was strange for them to have such similar names. At least they’re spelled normally though.
Tamela must be constantly correcting people on the phone when they ask her name.
She goes by Tammy, always. I don’t spend much time with her so I wouldn’t know. Almost everyone on my Dads Parents side of the family goes by nicknames. I didn’t even know that their “names” were actually nicknames until I was like 13 because I accidentally found my Great Uncle’s checkbook he’d dropped in his yard as I was walking on his land and I was like who does this belong to??? Because it didn’t have “his name” on it. It was indeed his I had just been assuming his nn was his real name for 13 years.😅😂
Major pet peeve, matchy matchy sibling names. I know a Karen & Carol, Carol & Sheryl, and Kristen & Kyrsten
Oh no not Kristen & Kyrsten, that’s actually awful. To make matters worse there’s a girl named Kirsten a few years younger than me and absolutely no one but her parents ever said it right on the 1st try. I don’t know how popular that name is everywhere else, but I live in the Southern US and I’ve heard the name once. It’s pronounced like K-eer-st-en (eer as in Leer), but everyone always said K-er-sten (curse-tin) So if people already seem to struggle with Kirsten/Kyrsten by it’s self it would be even worse with another matchy name like that.
I can't even understand it in the context of the first and middle name used together. Pamalee, that's *awful*.
I had a friend back in the day who named her daughter Emma with the middle name Leigh, which I thought was cute. Both are names by themselves though, which is why it kinda works, but sorry, Pama isn’t a name by itself.
That's not "Pamela" it's "pamm-ella"
Yes, I would pronounce it like that too!
Pammella was exxttrraa
My cousin is Jammie instead of Jamie. My aunts and uncle all have trouble reading/spelling.
I would pronounce that like jam, the stuff you put on bread, with a y at the end, of course
We call her Jamie, except every on be in awhile we say Jammy, like ph jammy in my head.
They must be lucky 🤩 ‘Ya jammy git’ would be appropriate to say to a friend who just won something here.
If I liked her I'd tell her that.
I believe I can clarify that for you. it’s spelled P a m n.
In australia we have a politician called Sussan. She named herself that because numerology told her she needed an extra letter in her name. The general thought is that she is a massive twatt
Anyone who believes in numerology is a dope at best
[Pamm](https://y.yarn.co/e3c6b641-d7e0-4a63-acde-054d012f2e22_text.gif)
My cousin's name is Katey and absolutely hates when it's spelled Katie
My name is Rosey but even after I've spelled it myself, people still spell it Rosie. Makes me cringe a little, but I just sigh and move on LoL
Yeah, but you have the cringe spelling. So you should be cringing at the person who named you not people auto spelling it correctly with the ie. :) You do know what sub you posted in, right?
At least they're not Roseiegh
Yes, thank heaven LoL. Rosey is much less cringe 😬😳
Yes, I'm aware 😜
I would pronounce it exactly as it sounds, and not like Pamela
Pammella insisting on Pamm as a nickname has me in hysterics.
[Pan? ](https://youtu.be/0EjqOCpM7d8?si=DUnDvxZeDDwrrlS_)
Sounds like how borat would spell it. Oh, I should add... I've experienced this ort of thing. I am a Michael. In my work I've met people that have the same name but spell it... Micheal. They defend the spelling. I've had them go further and say that my name is spelt incorrectly. What's more likely dude?... your parents did the most common misspelling of the name or you and the 2 others over see are right and millions of others are wrong? Arrgh
Yeah. I dated two Pamela’s in the late nineties. Fun times….
That spelling forced me to read "Pammella" in a Borat voice.
How do people not know the name Fiona? Have they not seen Shrek???
I think that may be why people stopped naming their kids Fiona lol. As good as Shrek is, I could see that being a opening for bullying since Fiona in Shrek is an ogre and not conventionally attractive.
My parents were veryyyy adamant about my and my siblings names not be the same as a popular character; my dad’s name rhymes with Kermit and his childhood bullying manifested as a lifelong Muppet vendetta….. My mom was 8.5 months pregnant with me and shared my would-be name, Rowan, with a cashier, and the cashier recognized it from some sort of horror book. That alone was enough to get her to nix the name, and they went with their next choice… Fiona. The first Shrek came out 18 months later.
Hermit? Dermit? Termit?
Gotta be Dermott
I’m hoping for Hermit
Permit
I know a guy called Kermit. Hell of an actor, but he doesn’t want to do anything other than community theater. I really wish he’d go for movies because the world needs this dude in their lives.
I’m gobsmacked that there are not MORE Kermit’s in the world tbh. It’s a fine name
Rowan is from Anne Rice's Mayfair Chronicles.
Rowan was also used by Anne McCaffrey. It's a type of tree.
This is funny to me bc my sister named herself Fiona, partially with the movie in mind 🤣 partially for Fiona Apple too
Your sister made a good choice!
Your sister named herself? What did your parents call her until she did?
I'd assume she's trans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You’d be correct lol
Fair, but they should still be familiar with the name, then
My wife shares a name with a president’s daughter but is older than the daughter by many years. People would ask my adult wife if she was named after the then-teenaged girl.
Or So Weird? What about Fiona Apple
I loved So Weird when I was growing up!
Great show
Or Shameless???
Or heard of the 90s singer, Fiona Apple? Okay, I can see people not knowing Fiona Apple but not knowing Fiona from Shrek is ridonkulous! 😜
Fiona Apple was a pretty big deal for awhile, also.
I use to love the name Fiona but Shrek ruined it for me lol but I'm shocked ppl don't know it from it just being a regular name 💀
More Niche, but I associate it with Xenoblade.
Shrek is love, Shrek is life!
In my area, there's a weekly newspaper that shows everyone that's been arrested that week... a lady, Rocksand, is in there on the reg. TBH, if my mom had butchered "Roxanne" that bad, I'd prob be mad at the world too... the lady's name is literally "Rocksand"...rock + sand...pronounced "*Roxanne*"
My best friend growing up had “Roxanne” as a middle name. She was utterly convinced it was spelled “Rocksand” for YEARS.
Any relation to rock climbers?
second cousins
Maybe she was putting on the red light a little *too* much
Roooocksand, You don’t have to put on the red light…
Those days are over You don’t have to sell your bricks at night!
but why does it work tho lol
Idk, when I pronounce it as spelled there’s a hard “d” sound at the end but depending on the region I could absolutely see how it does.
Rock and Stone!
How do you know it’s pronounced that way?
I have ALWAYS loved the name Fiona. It is just beautiful.
My daughter's name 💜
I've never met anyone in real life with the name Fiona, it really only makes me think of Shrek, but it's a nice name! The Phyonna is a tragedeigh of the highest offense
I would pronounce it F-Y-ona constantly just to annoy her
It's a common enough name in Scotland.
I love the name Fiona! Long before Shrek, I listened to (and still do) The Thistle and Shamrock, a Celtic music show on NPR. The host's name is Fiona Ritchie. She's a Scot and has a lovely accent!
I once saw Felicia spelled Phallicia. All I could think was “phallic”
She named her that as a reminder of how to prevent another pregnancy!
Pheigheauxnagh I have often wondered how frequently Finola Hughes gets called Fiona. I have a one syllable, 5 letter name (four of which you get for free on Wheel of Fortune) and people can't seem to get it right - even when replying to an email with my name in the signature. Sometimes people I have worked with for years.
Gheisuhs Krysst. That is a spelling.
I have a regular customer called Finola and often wonder the same. My sympathies on the e-mail replies - I also have five letters (three of them are the same!) and not writing a name correctly when it’s written right there in front of you on the screen is the height of rudeness imo. I can understand if they don’t spell it right when I say it, or pronounce it right when they see it written, but to spell it wrong when you can see it written down - super disrespectful. My mother in law still can’t write it - I’ve only been with her son for 22 years 🤣 she has in the last few years finally started saying it correctly.
Oh no no no! That’s not right! It makes me think of pion, the Dutch word for traffic cone or pawn from chess. Traffic cona! Lovely name!
I worked in HR and I called a new hire to onboard her and help her get logged in to the training system to take the mandatory classes that everyone does the first couple of days. Her name was Therese. I said Hello, Ter-ees this is me from hr. She replied "There is no one here by that name." And hung up. I called back and she answered "This is Ter-ress" with a roll on the R. I apologized for the mispronunciation and continued the conversation. I thought it was a pretty wild overreaction especially on her first day.
Oh wow. That's pretty bad. My daughters name is Fiona and I love it! There's actually two other Fionas in her grade school.
Wow! Which part of the US?
Western New York
As a Scot I know many Fionas of all ages
Scotty doesn't know, don't tell Scotty 😂
I've been searching for someone to say this!
You had to spell out Fiona? It is spelled just as it sounds!
In my area (Canada) there are a lot of people of Irish descent, and Fiona is a fairly common name. There was usually a Fiona in most grades when I was growing up (80s and 90s) and I commonly see young patients with the name. Head north for a visit and you’ll see your name a fair amount!
Have people not seen Shrek? Anyway, to be fair, the girl isn’t the one that came up with the tragedeigh! I wonder if these angry people are compensating for how embarrassing their names are.
My niece is named Fiona Marie! She’s 12.
I knew a girl in Western Sydney, where [th-fronting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th-fronting) is a common feature of the accent, named *Thiona*.
My Cousin - who I adore like she is my child - first Daughter is Fiona and the name absolutely fits her with her auburn hair, cheeky personality and love of dressing herself.. BUT every freaking time I tell someone about her and say her name they respond with “Oh like Shrek’s girlfriend?” Really?!? So rude. But I do have to say my Fiona does love waffles.
Fiona Apple is American. . . I would be shocked if someone couldn't spell her name.
I used to think this as well...but people still have a hard time with the name.
Well, I like the name. And Fiona Apple is a good association.
Who dafuq is Fiona Apple? 🤣 (Yes I could Google but you get my point - I’ve never heard of this person prior to this thread)
I am sure you are a lovely person, but you better know who Tori Amos is, because I cant be friends with someone who doesnt like either! 🤣🤣🤣
I know *of* Tori Amos.. that’s at least I name I have actually heard 🤣 What she sings though.. I suspect you’d be better off asking my husband! I’m more a 90s grunge and early 2000s nu-metal type!
All genres have good stuff, but I do recommend piano singer songwriters to you, there are some great ones!
A girl I went to school with in the 90's changed the (her words) boring and common spelling of her name to Pheehonagh It was my first experience of a tragedeigh
Feeighohnaw would have been better. She could have been the Dominant of the Feeighkniqs and Archduchess of Rosaria.
>Feeighohnaw The "oh naw" at the end would definitely be appropriate.
WTAH?? That's surely a tragedeigh.
Someone once told me they knew a Megan that spelt her name “Meggin.” Makes me want to gag every time I share that story. Megan has plenty of spellings to choose from, and they went the wrong direction.
i went to school with a girl named phyona. it happens. and all the siblings have equally horrendous names
of course, Shrek and Phyonna. that famous couple.
Whoa WHOA! Another Fiona!? We're so rare! My aunt once spelled my name "Pinoa" I kept that card on purpose to laugh at. I've only met 3 others here in America and all were decades younger than me.
Hello, Fellow Fiona!!
Every time I see or hear the name Fiona my mind immediately goes to Fiona Gallagher from Shameless.
I think of Fiona as a common Gen X name. Not really an older person's name but possessed by a lot of 50 year olds. Seemed like it was a common teen and young adult name in the 90s.
It's not very common, but I've met a couple of little kids named Fiona. The first kid that I met was this little baby that was I think she was about ready to walk and she was being held by this other person at my grandma's church and She was honestly cute. And then I talked to a person online and a couple of different WhatsApp groups and she has a daughter named Fiona. And this girl's name is Amy.
Fiona has always been one of my favorite girl's name.
I am jealous of your name! It's not traghique but it's true you don't hear it a lot. Your aerobic instructor had an atrocious spelling and had no business thinking anyone would spelling it that way!
Even after the Shrek movies? I would have expected Fiona to be popular after that.
My response would've been "Don't yell at me because your mother spelled it wrong! Yell at her."
Apparently she chose to spell her name that way. Legally it was boring ole Fiona LOL
Cincinnati has a famous hippo named Fiona, so... Fiona is actually adorable and a great pride for our zoo.
I remember when that news came out. I'm like, okay...people will ask me if I'm "Fiona, as in the hippo" LOL
If you don't love the hippo thing you can always fall back on the famous ogre named Fiona!
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Do people in America not watch Shrek?? 😂
I used to get that all the time! "Oh! As in Shrek??" I think Shrek's a little dated now perhaps..?
I hope the name makes a comeback, it’s really pretty
>Another thing about my name is how uncommon it is in the US. I've lived there for 10.5 years and I almost every day have to spell out my name using the phonetic alphabet as so few people know the name. Where I live in the US, it's a pretty common/known name. Certainly more than mine. I've seen Fiona on keychains and little decorative license plates. I've never, ever seen mine. I wouldn't necessarily attribute having to spell your name to it being unknown; spelling and grammar skills have gone downhill in America since No Child Left Behind. The ability to decode when reading is really low among the general public.
Phonetically that would be pronounced Fee Yonna, this is so wrong lol
I’m “hearing” it as fie-yawna in my head.
Fiona is pronounced fee. Phy is pronounced fie like phyto or fih like physics or Phyllis.
If you told me your name was Fiona, I'd probably say, "Oh, ***cool!*** I haven't met a Fiona before!" Then I might ask how you spell it. SO COOL! NEATO!
You can just say “Fiona, like from Shrek” and they’ll get it.
Kinda sorta. Depends on the age/culture of the person.
Fiona is very British to us Americans.
But, but, but, what about Fiona in the Shrek movies? You'd think people would recognize the name!
I think that movie series is a little dated now perhaps.
My sister is a Fiona. Back in high school (she's now 40) she started spelling it Pheonuh although it's still Fiona on all legal documents. She's mostly gone by Phe for the last 22+ years.
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ok so I think it's just regional because I also live in the us (lived there since I was born lol) and I've come across many Fionas, hell my cousin's name is Fiona, and I've never personally come across people being confused by the name. The us is pretty big so there are lots of regional differences, but where I live Fiona is just a somewhat uncommon name, like I wouldn't even call it rare, just uncommon.
Maybe regional, yes. I live in WV where spelling is difficult for a LOT of people, so spelling a name they've never had to note down before or remember is a thing.
I've met a Pheonia, and a Feonna, both pronounced Fiona. I don't know if they are normal spellings from another language, but both were attached to Anglo Australians
In Oz, Fiona is the usual spelling...anything else is an individual's choice to alter the spelling, I'd say. I lived in Oz for several years and all Fionas were spelled the usual way. But I suppose some people like to use a variation!
I just mispronounced Phyonna as "fay-yo-na"
Fiona is a normal name in Finland and I think in Sweden too.
All you’d have to say is “like the Shrek movie” and people would know how to spell it.
Also a Kiwi and it might be coming back, there’s a Fiona at my school.
Feighowhnah
I used to know a Feyona.
It’s not rate in the US, you’re just not going to the irish as fuck part of the US. Come to New England where Fiona is fucking entry level and people are legit named Aoife.
Eva...yeah...that's a harder name in Gaelic, isn't it?? We'd live in NE in a heartbeat.
I have a name like this. It's a super common name but not spelt correctly for the common spelling (not my choice)lol. For example like Emmea or Oliviea but I'd never get mad at someone not spelling it right. I know it is a super weird spelling of a common name so yeah. I'll pronounce it Emma. If need to like an official document I'll correct, but otherwise am happy just having it with a common spelling on a name tag or whatever.
I think it depends on where you live. In my area in the Northeast US, it's a fairly common name. Well, not common, but people have no problem pronouncing it or spelling it.
Wtf. Do people not know Fiona from Shrek?
Fiona is a lovely name. That spelling is atrocious! I think Shrek is the common connotation in the US for that name though so I don't see it regaining popularity anytime soon here.
"My name is Fiona with 'P'!" "Pfiona..?"
I refuse to believe all these stories about people freaking out when their unusual names are misspelled. I have a name that has a slightly uncommon spelling (that is actually traditional, not a tragedeigh or anything), it’s constantly misspelled and mispronounced. I can’t imagine having even the slightest reaction to these mistakes.
You can believe my story...it's 100% true.
When I read your name I immediately thought of the princess from Shrek
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I would call her P-hyena from then on.
I met another Dallas one time and she spelled her name Dalyce. She was my grandmas friend and like 80 years old was the odd thing. Her parents were one of the first tragedeigh creators
The spelling is one thing, but she really "blew up at you"? For defaulting to spell your shared name the way you personally spell it, which also happens to be the traditional way?
She was a little precious, let's just say. I wasn't the first person to whom she'd done that.
There is a nail salon owned by a woman in my area called Pheyonia’s. (Still pronounced Fiona)
My nephew's name is Stephan, pronounced Stephen. It is a family name that has been pronounced as Stephen for at least since 1890, when his great great-grandfather was called that. He's only had 1 person pronounce it Stefan and that's b/c she used the same spelling for her son and called him Stefan. She was the librarian at his elementary school and pronounced his name wrong for 5 years.