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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).

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