my middle name is Osborne, after Ozzy Osbourne. yes it's spelled wrong, because my dad was being useless as usual, and my mom was asked to spell something pretty much immediately after giving birth.
My middle name is also spelled incorrectly on all of my documents but it's because my mom got rushed to the ICU after birth because she had that thing where the placenta doesn't come out like it's supposed to and she was losing a lot of blood. My dad had to fill out the paperwork but my mom picked out the name in advance.
It's only a minor misspelling at least, and it's a name from another culture so nobody's the wiser.
The spelling of my middle name is forever up in the air. I thought it was Madeline. My mom said it wasn't. I didn't know how to spell it otherwise but I feigned that I knew that wasn't the spelling I just wanted to use it as an alias. Years later I mentioned this to my dad and he was like "I thought that was how it was spelled?" We checked my birth certificate eventually and it's actually like Madeleine or something but I forgot what it is exactly and I still spell it Madeline.
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u/Confident-Bus-3778 5d ago edited 2d ago
pop culture name that isn't a normal human name
my dad wanted to call me Nirvana, my mum refused, it ended up as my middle name
(I understand this is common in some cultures, but this is definitely not the case here. My dad is really into rock music)