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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, people can name their kids whatever they want. I absolutely did not want to name my kids some boring common name in the top 20 or 50. I didn’t want them to have to be Henry L. or Sophie T. or one of the 12 Jacks in the grade. Ask any Jennifer how she feels. I also didn’t do made up/inventive spelling names. I’ll be honest because this is anonymous — those seem uneducated to me. But I don’t care what other people choose. [/quote]

I agree. There are several Olivias in my DD's grade, and one is misspelled, presumably because the parents realized Olivia was too basic and over-saturated. The misspelling makes it that much worse.

I consider there to be three main camps -- Basic names spelled right, quirky names spelled right + made up names spelled logically according to rules of English without unnecessary apostrophes/dashes/capitalizations, and then all manner of misspelled and confusingly spelled names. I don't look down on names in the second category because at some point in time every name in the first category was a "weird" name until it caught on. The name "Vanessa" was invented by Jonathan Swift as a tribute to his lover.

People dipping into the third category need their heads examined. There is no need for "Keightlynne" or "Vylitt" if you think Caitlin and Violet are too basic. Pick something else.[/quote]

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