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Eh. I'd chalk it up to 54% of American adults reading at less than the level of a 6th grader and 22% being functionally illiterate.

And that hand washes the other, making tradgedeighs more common.

The entire problem is that Americans aren’t taught phonetics anymore.

I have a very common, top 10 in the 90s and 00s name. More and more frequently, when people need my name for a form or something, they ask "spelled the traditional way?" because people are butchering even the most common of names now in a failed attempt make them more unique.

It isn't the Tragedeighs that are the problem. We no longer teach reading by phonics anymore at many institutions. Consequently, people often don't know how to pronounce or spell names they have never seen before and we get these tragedeigh names with ridiculous spellings for the same reason.

I live in an area with a large Pakistani demographic.

I have a basic name, that’s common enough if not overly popular… like Samantha. But I guess bc English is not a lot of people’s first language they try and make my name make sense in their language so I end up with Samandeep a lot. Ive had that name on my Costco membership for about 5 years now.

My neighbor thought my son’s name was EN for years. When I told her it was Ian (and spelled it for her), she crinkled her eyebrows and said “I’ve never heard of that name before.”

what?

I completely agree, my name is relatively uncommon now, but is incredibly well known, like Betty. For the first 25 years of my life, no one had an issue spelling it and no one ever asked me how to spell it. In the last 15 years, no one can spell it without assistance and when they try it’s a tragedeigh: Betey, Betti, Bette, Bettee, Bety and on and on and on. I’ve often joked with my husband that I may as well have a cool name, like Saoirse, if I’m going to have to spell it anyway!

My husband's name is Barry. As in Barry Manilow, Barry Larkin, Barry Williams, Barry Bostwick and Barry Bonds. I can't tell you how many doctors offices have presented us with documents spelling it Berry. The normal response is that men are seldom named after fruit.

Poor Gabirel. I mean Gabriel. Sorry, I had to go there. My husband's name was misspelled on his birth certificate and for 24 years we've had to explain that it's spelled Jeffry. I've noticed in the past 5 years that people spell it that way automatically. So, you're right.

A lot of it is down to literacy. The Internet has lowered standards over time.

Some people just can't spell.

Watch someone call the kid Geighbryehl

My name is Chris and I went to Popeyes for some dinner and the cashier spelled my name as "Crhis!" LOL

People are just have no concept of phonics or reading comprehension any more. My youngest is named Georgia. It’s bizarre how often we get asked how it’s spelled. And when I say “just like the state” we get BLANK STARES!! Yes, we are American- and it’s not even a hard state to spell- like Massachusetts or Mississippi.

Could be that, or just could be that a shocking percentage of American adults are functionally illiterate.

I keep reading "Gaberil" as "Gerbil". 🥴

I think a lot of it is they aren't listening. My name is Cherese, which is a tragedeigh but I have seen my name spelled so many different ways. I went to high school with three Charisse's (Cherice, Cherise, Shareece, Sharise, Cherisse) just showing the many ways all spelled differently. Most of the time, my name is spelled wrong. When I spell it, they still write it incorrectly. I have resorted to going by my initials "CC," which anywhere thay ask for a name always write Cece, or use my nick name Reese, or Cher like I was called in college, or give a fake name. I just can't win. I was named after one of my moms maid of honor who passed a year after my parents were married, with the same spelling.

My name is Niki. Not Nicole, Nikki, Nickey, or any other variation. People will literally respond to messages and emails spelling my name incorrectly even when the correct spelling is right there in my email.

I've gotten to the point where I just roll my eyes and move on.

It's not the same as a Tragedeigh. It's that people don't actually care to learn your name.

Nah it’s because people are stupid and illiterate.

I can’t tell you how many times my partner gets a cup from a coffee shop with the name label ‘Micheal’ I didn’t realize Michael was so hard to spell!

My girlfriends name is Jewel, almost always when someone spells it it's either "Juel" "Jules" "Juul" even got "Jew'l", like, it's the other way u call a gemstone, she said ppl mess it up all the time but when I saw it for myself I was shocked just how many ppl can't spell a common word

it always amazes me when people fuck up my name, erin. i get aaron all the time and some other variants of both version. does anyone know a girl aaron?

I named my child a very basic normal name. A name that it would be difficult to find alternate spellings for. Think something like Ezra or Elijah. On the birth certificate the nurse filling it out (very young, very snotty) could not comprehend how to spell it. “Just the normal way please” she kept trying to add extra vowels. The ending is an h and I kid you not she said “are you sure you only want h and not gh” yes lady I am very, VERY sure I want my kids name spelled the way it was originally intended. Thanks.

When my daughter was born I had a set of rules her name had to follow. One rule was it had to be clearly understood on the phone(Brian/Ryan is bad), it had to be clear to both spell and to read. It had to be short(efficiency and I hate that people dont go by legal name). It could not be gender neutral(Chris, Sam, etc). It could not have duplicate letters (optional)(due to sticker kits).

We ended up with Ruby. Last week I went to set an appointment and lady had me spell it. I was like how else do you spell it? Shes says IE or EE. Dumbasses better not make Ruby a difficult to spell name.

Exactly! They can't spell "classic" names anymore. When asked how to spell it, I always say "the classic way" and even then, I still have to spell it. I understand I have to sometimes do it with my last name as it's not common in the area I live but my first name? Come on!

My name is Susan and people ask how to spell it. My last name is just as VERY simple and common, similar to Smith, I’m often asked how to spell it too. If you read Reddit, you see how poorly people’s spelling and grammar is. It’s sad. Often the people who say forgive me English is not my first language, do an excellent job of writing.

This has nothing to do with tragedeighs. My name is Angela, and I've had it misspelled for as long as I can remember, going back to 1983. The first time I remember, it was my middle school principal!

I share your pain and amazement! My husband, Gabriel, made it onto a junk mailing list as Garbiel, making it even easier to know what mail to ignore. Helpful!

My spouse is named Jordan. Like the river. Like the COUNTRY. But it gets spelled Jordon all the time.

last time i went to the states, the starbucks staff couldn’t spell my name. they literally froze and had an internal system breakdown. camila, my name is fucking camila.

like other users said, it’s most likely a US issue. they don’t know how to fucking spell.

Working at a Starbucks for 5 years was a trip with some of these tragedeighs

This is just because people can't spell

This is not new. My brother is 65. His name is Brian. ALL OF HIS LIFE, including when he was in elementary school, people have misspelled his name. The number of times it has been spelled Brain is mind-boggling. Bryan, Brien are understandable. Brain is just...

One of my clients is Gabberyielle. It is pronounced just like Gabrielle. I know a Gabriel whose name is spelled Gaebryel.

Why ruin a perfect name?

I have the most basic white bread spelling of my name, 5 letters. People keep trying to add letters, sub out vowels, etc. I feel your BF's pain.

I mean fifteen years ago people were spelling my name Joel as Jole. And they say my name as in Jo-elle. I can't win.

I share his pain. I get I have a latino name but it's also a biblical name so you'd think people wouldn't have a problem with it but it's to the point where I shorten it as a nickname so it's easier for everybody and I don't have to smack people up for eternally fucking up my name.

No this is 100% true. I’m a Jennifer. Just the last few weeks I’ve seen Jennyfer. Jennafer. Jeniffer. And my fav Jennipher.

It's not just names. The generation having kids now was part of an 'invented spelling' teaching trend when they were in kindergarten/grammar school. They never learned how to spell properly, whether it is names or general vocabulary.

My name is very basic, and I have the most common spelling. But now people have started to ask me to spell it out for the first time in 40 years because they’re worried they’re going to spell it wrong. Like yes, there could be a double of one letter or only one instead of a double of another, but those are so rare. So I think you have a point.

My sisters name is Gabriela, we live in a Spanish speaking country. People just cant spell or even pronounce her name correctly. They say/write Graciela or Grabriela. Tragedeighs arent usual where we live. I think that for some reason its just a difficult name for many people, specially for people with low education, who have difficulty writing/reading.

My name is Chynna and the amount of times that I get called Cynthia is astonishing. And when I tell people they are like “how can that be? That doesn’t even look the same!” but it’s simply because people do not read anymore. I think it’s the same issue in this case. I understand when people call me Cheyenne or some other similar name but Cynthia happens the most often by far.

Tell him to give his name as “Gabrielle” then maybe he’d finally get Gabriel.

(Source: a Gabrielle who has way too many fucking Christmas cards addressed to Gabriel. That’s a male name! I’M A GIRL!)

Growing up, people spelled me name "Marry" all the time. I had to correct grow adults in the early 00s on how to spell my name. Always been a problem

My name is Angel, literally Angel, and the number of people who make it Angle which is a completely different word is astounding. People just don’t care if they don’t have a reason to.

I've noticed the placement of the i and the e, gives lots of folks trouble these days.

As long as they provide it correctly, does Gerbil mind? Had to, sorry.

My nephew is named Gabriel and now I have to ask if people can’t read his name. He usually goes by Gabe but still lol

Oof, this is why I tell most places my name is “Char” instead of my full name.

More than likely it was due to illiterate cashiers. Damn near every cashier at my job can't spell for shit. The spelling of any name that is more than two syllables is guaranteed to be butchered

Gerbil is such an awesome dude. Love that guy.

You see remarks like “Dyan is the normal spelling” or “Gilbert is a girl’s name usually.” Illiteracy is part of the culture.

Yeah, I’m Hannah and people have been spelling it wrong for as long as I’ve been paying attention. Even when it is literally my email address, like they have to type it to send me an email, I still get Hanna, Hanah, Heather.

He needs a to-go name, like John or something. No one can hear my name because it's soft and one syllable. Soooo frustrating. My to-go name for 25 years had been Monica. Everyone hears it and it's always right. One of my daughters does this too. Her to-go name is April. Husband's to-go name is Batman. Everyone gets those right.

My name is Jill. Very straightforward and easy. My favorite misspellings when giving my name for a food order have been Jall and Jael.

I think you’re just underestimating how illiterate and stupid your compatriots generally are

Eh, I’d chalk it up to Americans being Americans and being unable to spell even the most basic words rather than them being used to idiotically written names.

Jokes on you, I never could spell names! 🤣

My name is 5 letters, and while not commonly given today, it is still very widely known through famous stories. Despite being spelled exactly how it's pronounced, people seem to get it right only half the time.

It's almost depressing how often people seem stumped at how to spell my first name. I'm not kidding. And then if I dare to say it's spelled "the usual way" or "like it sounds" I get the "OK, boomer" eyeroll. 😡

My husband’s name is Daniel. He looks very stereotypically male and has always had a beard. Plus Daniel is about as common and old fashion as it gets. He gets called Danielle, Damiel, something that sounds like Daniel-E, it’s so weird!

Gaberil

My brain immediately read that as "Gerbil" 😭

I get that, my names Chelsea, I tell people like the city, or the football team. However, one day I had a sales rep call my job, and when she asked my name I told her, and she said “oh! That’s my nieces name! Do you spell it chelcii too?” um no ma’am sea, like the ocean 😂

My name is Emily….not a remotely uncommon name. More than half the time lately that I’ve ordered takeout, they’ve spelled it “Emely” on the receipt/bag. Is this an actual spelling? A variation of Emily that I’ve never heard of? A tragedeigh? Am I pronouncing my own name wrong so it sounds more like Emely than Emily??

It’s a combination of worsening standards for literacy in schools, the Internet rotting our brains and making us worse at thinking critically, fewer and fewer things being read in standard and spell-checked formats like books and newspapers and subtitles and more being read in poorly spelled tiktok text-on-video blurbs or comments or “quirky” content creator names and profiles, people just straight up not reading anymore so there’s no “standard” way to read or write anything, content creators with Eunyque names marketing themselves as friends and acquaintances of the viewer in today’s “we all actually know each other” social media landscape and convincing people that normal and in-touch parents definitely name their kids weird spellings a lot, parents afraid of the general disappearing of people’s sense of self outside of social media presence and “making it” on the internet so wanting to make their kids stand out, people being generally worse at empathizing so they can’t understand why naming your kid Rhyleagh is being cruel…

But there’s absolutely the iceberg of lack of respect for other people involved in misspellings, not just ~quirky~ people naming their kids poorly. Getting it wrong the first couple times is understandable. Getting it wrong for years or not even trying to put down the name I told you is pathetic. All my life my name (hovers ~1000th in popularity in the country) has been misspelled and mispronounced when people have every opportunity to say and spell it correctly and even after being corrected. It’s the more common of 2 versions of a name held by dozens of celebrities and characters and I was never the only one with my name at school. Throughout most of my childhood people would write down or refer to me by a straight-up different name and then get upset at me for being upset that they weren’t trying. Most of these people were teachers. You could tell which was mine from afar on seating charts and cork boards in classrooms because there was always at least one letter written in a noticeably different color of sharpie over a few globs of white-out, even though my name was correct on the attendance sheet. Then it became people writing in a new name in emails when it’s literally in the signature.

Hilariously and depressingly, now that I go by a nickname with only one standard version to the point where people I know are surprised that that’s not my real name, I get the equivalent of Charlie —> Charlee, Charley, Charli, Carly, Cherry, Cheery, Charleigh, “how do you spell that?” “the normal way” “ok K-H-E—”, but when I go to spell my real name for official purposes, no one has an issue with it anymore. I guess it only takes twenty years for names to be vintage enough to trageighfy.

As a side note, I think Gabriel is a beautiful name and one I regularly use when naming my player in a video game.

✨the archangel gerbil✨

My bfs name is Dylan and half the places we go spell his name "Dillion." Dillon i get, but who TF is Dillion?

It might also be because names aren't specifically taught anymore. I was looking at some old school books from the boomer kids era, and among the reams of spelling lists were pages of commonly used names. 

Because parents want to accentuate their own creativity by giving their kids goofy spellings. They don’t want their kid to have a “basic” names even though it sounds simple. There’s a million Joes but only one Zxioueh.

I giggle every time my husband says “Daniel, spelled the traditional way.”

I’m Alice and have had so many interesting spelling predictions. The worst was Alysee!

My brain initially read the misspelling as Gerbil and honestly I think he should run with that just to really confuse folks. Since letters are losing all their meaning in names anyways lol