I am not a fan of made up spellings, but I do like going back in history for varients of a name. I have to admit yes, I do think it is getting out of control and have thought that for ages.

I find the internet is not a good place for looking up spellings of a name, especially the baby name sites that allow member to update meanings/history etc, some are just plain wrong. I just would not trust some of them with the background of names, well saying that I did not even trust most baby name books. I found the Prenguin Dictionary of first names and found it met my needs for historical accuracy.