Personally I don't like creative spelling much. But really if the parent has a reason for it, even just to put their own stamp on thier child, then that's fair enough.
My name is Kellie. I have people spell it wrong all the time and they just assume its Kelly. I don't really care except if it's something important. But because of it, I tired to give my kids simple names, spelt the most common way (or so I thought!) But I have already had 'Lily' spelt in every combination possible and even 'Liam' has been Leem, Leiham, Leam.
Being a child care worker I see every spelling under the sun. At the moment we have so many double and triple names, all spelt differently. One name in particular, we have 5 girls with the same name. Only one spells it in what I would call the 'normal' spelling. It makes it tricky when the parents get upset at us for spelling the names wrongly, and while I can understand it, it's hard to know who's name is spelt which way!!
So I think no matter how you spell your kids names, they are always going to be asked how to spell it!
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