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I don't have any children of my own, but I work with several hundred children every year so I've seen it all.
It drives me crazy when a parent saddles their child with a stupid name or worse, some ridiculous and incorrect spelling. Wow. Parents are only setting their child up for a lifetime of repeating their name and its spelling at every turn, and possibly failure. Of course, when you invent a name out of the clear blue sky, I guess the spelling of it will probably be a problem too.
I knew a girl with a name that sounded like "Genevieve", which is fine name, but the spelling of it only had one "v". It is impossible to spell "Genevieve" without two v's. Geez!! And I've also known a "Katie" without a "t".
I can deal with the giving of kids names that are traditional surnames (Madison, Hudson, Hunter, etc.), but then you start to get weird spellings like "Madyson", "Madysyn", "Madasonn", "Hunterr", etc. Ridiculous! What's wrong with people?
I've also known a DearAbby, a Camry and Lexus (sisters), Rope, Race, Racelynn, I could go on forever.
I also knew a brother (Star) and sister (Sky) growing up whose parents were hippies. Nature names can be good but will be ruined with a bad spelling.
Why do people feel the need to tack "-lynn" onto so many names? (Racelynn, Gracelynn, Brooklyn, Ashlyn, Cashlyn, etc.)
So many of these names look horrible when written. Like Mikayla. AWFUL! But "Michaela", the feminine form of "Michael" looks beautiful. I suspect most parents that pick Makaylah or whatever have no clue about the fact that Mikayluh is actually Michaela.
And then some people want to add symbols to their kid's names. Dashes (and NOT connecting two names, but just a random syllabic dash), apostrophes, accent marks, etc. And 99% of the time, used incorrectly.
Parents should pick a real name for a kid. They may actually grow up to be something. You can call your child anything you want as a nickname, but for goodness sakes give them an actual name.
I feel like telling some of these parents to open a book for crying out loud. There are thousands of great names from history, mythology, the Bible, classic novels. Even room to still be original.
Sorry for the rant, but it goes all over me. I'm thankful my parents were literate, gave me a real name, and spelled it correctly.
I'm sure glad you said "NOT connecting two names." My two names flow together nicely with the hyphen between them; my second name is not capitalized.
My name is unique and I love it. However, I did/do go through life telling everyone, "There is no 'e' on the end."
Some of those names you listed are really out there.
My mom gave me and my siblings normal names because her siblings had weird names. Mom had a lovely name that she thought was weird, but I loved it. For a long time I thought she was just boring in her naming, but now I can see why she gave us all normal boring names.
At my baby shower we spent a lot of time trying to come up with a unique boy name mixing letters from all my brothers' and father's names. I can't remember any of them, but they would have looked something like this: Fricomieavobal. No one came up with a usable name at all.
I named him Matthew... how special.
Here is a creative name.....how about Hershella? Makes me crave chocolate when I hear that name.....
Another good one is...Walterina!!!!!!! Whoa! This had to be a man named Walter who never had the son he wanted.....a precious daughter came around and BLAMMO! Lifelong name wrangling!
My paternal Great-Grandma was named "Willie". No, not short for "Wilhelmina" and in my family history search I have not found any "Williams" she might have been named after either. It's a bit of a mystery. While I wouldn't call it a "stupid name" it's certainly made some of my genealogy research a bit difficult... and I am sure it wasn't the easiest for her with such a "boy name" being born in 1875!
My paternal Great-Grandma was named "Willie". No, not short for "Wilhelmina" and in my family history search I have not found any "Williams" she might have been named after either. It's a bit of a mystery. While I wouldn't call it a "stupid name" it's certainly made some of my genealogy research a bit difficult... and I am sure it wasn't the easiest for her with such a "boy name" being born in 1875!
I used to work with a lady named Johnnie. That was her real name. Not short for anything and not a nickname.
My paternal Great-Grandma was named "Willie". No, not short for "Wilhelmina" and in my family history search I have not found any "Williams" she might have been named after either. It's a bit of a mystery. While I wouldn't call it a "stupid name" it's certainly made some of my genealogy research a bit difficult... and I am sure it wasn't the easiest for her with such a "boy name" being born in 1875!
The "ie" ending ("Willie" rather than "Willy") indicates that this is a female name, since your g-grandma was born in 1875. "ie" as an ending of of girls' names seems to have come from Scotland, and was very trendy from around 1875 well into the early 1900s: Annie, Susie, Mollie, etc. all occur in my family history from this time period. As does Willie, come to think of it, on the other side of my family.
Often Willie was used with a distinctly female middle name - Willie Mae seems to have been popular. The Willie in my family was one of about eight sisters - and only two brothers, which may have been a factor in her naming.
I can't find it now but someone mentioned the name Genevieve. I had an aunt Genevieve and thought it was a beautiful name. Back in the fifties, there was a French actress who frequently appeared on the Jack Parr "Tonight Show" who was named Genevieve. She pronounced it the French way as Juan-Vee-Eev. So my aunt tried to get everyone to pronounce her name that way to but wasn't to successful.
We mostly called her Aunt Gene.
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My two names flow together nicely with the hyphen between them; my second name is not capitalized.
For a long time I thought she was just boring in her naming, but now I can see why she gave us all normal boring names. 
No one came up with a usable name at all.
