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I love creative spelling, I added a Y to Jayde to make it sound better for me. I like Hayleigh and personally know a Hayleigh spelled like that

I generally like creative spellings. I think it's okay, but not very practical. People with these names would have to tell people how to spell their names all their life. I think I'm desensitized to creative names since where I live, so many parents change the spelling of their kid's names. I know many people with names like Fhrinzes (Princess), Loreign (Lorraine), Allyhana (Aliana), and so much more.

This message was edited 9/15/2021, 8:28 PM

I generally hate these creative spellings. They usually just scream “we are trying to be different, but not trying hard enough”.

I can appreciate some of them, like I find Elyse every bit as pretty as Elise, and I think Ynes is kinda cool. But for the most part I defer to original spelling and find these variations so tacky.

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I'm also not a fan of adding y's just to emphasize gender, like Robyn instead of Robin.

It's crazy. I work at a school and kids at school , people never know how to spell or prounounce their names

It doesn't change the sound, in fact; just the appearance. DH's aunt went to Italy and came back proudly with a 'replica' of Michelangelo's David, about eight inches high and made of white, moulded plastic. That, compared to the original, is pretty much how I think of all the y and x names that some people enjoy. Like Auntie and her ornament. (She gave it to us when she moved to another town; we 'lost' it, and she never knew.)

It's usually stupid and only makes the name more complicated/weird/ugly instead of unique

Unless it's the spelling of a name/word in another language, or for honouring purposes, I don't like it. It does look mispelled, and the name is still the same out loud. Kadence is no more interesting or different than Cadence if you never see it written down. If you want a more unusual name, just do a bit more research.

I don't really see it that much anymore. I feel like it was a bit of a 90s/early 00s thing because at the time so many K-sound-names were still common. Nowadays K seems to be out of fashion.

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E.g.: Kaitlyn instead of Caitlin
Kourtney instead of Courtney
Alyson instead of Alison

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Nowadays there don't seem so many names that you could change like that. Hayley, Kayleigh etc. also had their good times behind them.

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I see -eigh sometimes (as in Everleigh) but -eigh is the more feminine ending in cultures in which many of these names are also used for boys. E.g. in the UK Ashleigh was quite common because Ashley was also used much more for boys than in the US. So Ashleigh or Kayleigh do not look misspelled to me.

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I usually like original spellings:

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Caitlin
Hayley
Cadence (this looks awful in any other spelling, in my opinion)

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But I do prefer Kayleigh and I don't mind Ashleigh. But I see them as more classic than other variants such as Ashlee or Kailee.

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Kayleigh was the way the name was spelled in the song which made the name popular and also an anglicization of "ceilidh" so to me it feels more like the original even though I guess technically it is Kaylee (Kay plus Lee).

It would have been unique in the 50s. It's too trendy to be considered unique or different and those who are considering the names for those reasons should look elsewhere.

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Mostly they look like an eyesore to me, but some are ish passable. I'm not sure which ones off the top of my head, but these are probably forms of very uncommon names anyway and therefore their normal spellings are not widely known anyway.

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I can't help but feel like the people who think it's cool and different are channelling their inner six year old

lol you definitely aren't the only one

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anyway the reason people do this is becait they want their child to have a Unique name but they also want to name their child Jackson, or whatever other common name they're altering. It's pretty simple.

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My least favorite is when people will replace literally any vowel with y. That's not how y works! It doesn't make every vowel sound!