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I have a cousin who named his son Kenley. Kenley is older than most of the trendy named girls that have this name now and obviously his parents didn't see that coming. He was named by combining two important names from each parent. His grandfather Kenneth drowned trying to save his father as a kid when a boat pulled him under in a lake. Even though my uncle Kenneth couldn't swim, he tried to get to his son and drowned. The people on the boat realized what was happening and pulled Kevin (Kenneth's son/Kenley's father) out of the water, but it has always haunted Kevin so he wanted to name his son after his dad. His mom had no brothers and wanted to carry on her maiden name which was Oakley in some way. They combined Kenneth and Oakley and got Kenley. Sadly, Kenley's mom died when he was very young in a helicopter crash. She was a flight nurse. So the name is very important to us and it was really annoying when about 2 years later everyone started naming their daughters Kenley.

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It does annoy me though when it's just a downright refusal of the actual etymological origins of the name to something they think is just cuter or was told by someone without doing any research.