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I don't get respelling either. Perhaps because my name is the victim for this insane amount of respellings and so I've experienced this first hand. When "KVIIIlyn" is yelled in a playground or store, etc, 10 kids are going to turn their heads, even if only one has that spelling. So it really doesn't solve the commonness of the name at all. The only thing it does is make NO-ONE know how to spell your name. In the case of Caitlin, which was so rare and then became so popular with multiple spellings, even those of us with the original spelling have this problem. I had a mom of a Caetlynn tell me all excitedly and proud about her daughter's name because "I had the same name". I just cringed inside. It's moms like her that have made life with my name more difficult than it needs to be.

This message was edited 6/2/2016, 9:36 AM