Question about "unique" spelling of baby's name...

sangreal

If you've chosen to use a "unique" spelling for your child's name, what was your reasoning behind it? This is not meant to be a nit-picky thing, I'm genuinely curious as to how folks come about with the different spellings.

For example:

Jackson = Jaxson or Jaxon 

Olivia = Olyvia or Olivea

etc...etc...etc... 

Kflie83

I'm sure they all just want to be unique but I know it secretly really bugs me anytime someone misspells my name, which is ALL THE TIME. Seriosly, why does there have to be so many different ways to spell Kristi. I once even knew a girl who spelled it Khrystie!

BitterOldHag

Our spelling of Jakob is not necessarily unique, just uncommon.

He's named after my dad, whose initials were JAK. 

LSU628

We used Elisabeth instead of Elizabeth for her middle name. My dad's sister is an Elisabeth, plus it is also the biblical spelling (Mary's sister, who was John the Baptist's mother).

babyjoy09

My bf picked Anjelica with a j because he has a wired obsession with Anjelica Houston lol

Cass&Derek

I love having a fairly uncommon name "Cassie" and I wanted her to have some uniqueness to her name. While I know Baylee is not that uncommon, I know she will come across more spelled Bailey. I always felt kind of bad for the kids that had 2 or 3 others with names just like theirs in class, just my opinion.

ceg2483

Eleanore is the French way of spelling Eleanor...I thought it looked better on paper and it honored my (very slight) French heritage

MrsSweetpeaMagee

We liked the way Keaghan looked better than Keegan... there's really only one way to spell Jack... unless you leave out the "c" or the "k" which looks weird to me...

We actually wrote out all the different spellings of Keaghan and decided on the way we spelled it because we liked the way it looked.

MrsWanee

Kflie83:

I'm sure they all just want to be unique but I know it secretly really bugs me anytime someone misspells my name, which is ALL THE TIME. Seriosly, why does there have to be so many different ways to spell Kristi. I once even knew a girl who spelled it Khrystie!

i knew a girl who spelled it christiy. doesn't even make sense phonetically!

MrsWanee

ceg2483:

Eleanore is the French way of spelling Eleanor...I thought it looked better on paper and it honored my (very slight) French heritage

i agree about how it looks.... such a pretty name!

mrs_rodney

We liked the name Camryn and it this way because we thought it was more girly.  Cameron makes me think boy. 

poopteen

I actually wanted to go with Anneke, which is technically the more traditional spelling of DD's name, but figured that almost nobody on this side of the Atlantic would pronounce it right when reading it the first time or spell it right when hearing it the first time. There's still some margin of error left just with it being an uncommon name, but I figured I made it a little more American friendly just to be a little kinder to DD and her teachers.

g8orell

mrs_rodney:

We liked the name Camryn and it this way because we thought it was more girly.  Cameron makes me think boy. 

This! Plus, we live in Miami, where there is a huge hispanic population. Orignally, we were gonna spell it Cameron, but in spanish, it is pronounced Cam-er-on which means "Shrimp" in spanish. Everyone at work (they are all hispanic) still call her shrimp.(Camaron = shrimp in spanish)

adrianLO

My name is spelled Adrian (traditionally the boys way) rather than Adrienne bc I had a 13 letter last name and my mom figured the shorter the better

kays718

I picked Kayleigh, bc I loved the name, it was naming her after me (Kay) and since I want to call her Leigh, I used Leigh (girls spelling) for the ending verses lee (guys spelling).