Update: Seems this has become quite a popular forum for discussing baby names. Since this was not my intention in writing this post, I closed the comments. That caused quite a stir, so I am reopening it; feel free to discuss baby names to your heart's content. It has little to do with the original post, but who cares?
When our daughter was born I was amazed at the numerous new spellings of formerly common names. Individuality in names is quite a trend now. What the article (now offline) doesn't mention is the problem we're going to have when they're no longer any standard spelling of any common name--schoolteachers are going to go insane.
Posted by Matthew Pearson at November 9, 2003 7:29 PM