my cat’s name is basically pronounced “cookie”, but gets spelled kouki. found it a pretty interesting name because it means hope and/or happines depending on how you write it, it fit pretty well because i got him to help with my depression. and i think it worked pretty well. he is also very handsome. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/237926c8-007b-4736-97b4-0f29ebd7ef5c.jpeg
I’ve got a friend who had a dog named D.O.G. He’d always pronounce it like he was saying “the OG”. I never figured out whether it actually stood for anything.
One of my cats is called Jack, but her full name is Captain Jack Sparrow. My dad named her when he was drunk on the first day we got her, after we found her in our garage as a kitten. Idk why he chose that name but I loved it so much I instantly agreed and we overruled my mom’s attempts at rejecting it. I always make sure to tell vets her full name so they can put it in her file.