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This is kind of a response to the recent birth announcement post with the kid named 'Mikhayla'.

I've been pondering this for awhile, and it was made worse after reading a recent babynames.com letter. I'm a fan of the traditional spelling: Michaela. Yet, it seems these days, people prefer alternate spellings, like the above, plus Mikayla, Makayla, Mikaila, Mikaela (this one could be tolerated because it's close to the traditional), Mikaylah, et cetera.

Being a Kayla myself, I feel it looks like some letters have been tacked onto the front of my name. I'm not a fan of alternate spellings of my own name either - I'll tolerate Cayla, but Kaila, Kaela and especially Kaylah, because my name's been spelt like that more often than I care to count, are all out.

I've got no problems with 'unique' names, as some of my favourites are less than common names, surnames being used as first name, or unisex names, and I don't always have an issue with 'kr8ive' spellings either (for instance, the recent Zoe post - I like it with a y), but this one just sometimes feels like it's being taken a little too far - I mean, in the babynames.com letter, they had spellings like Mikala... Too many spellings is just asking for confusion.

Thoughts?