Son born in the 60’s was named Michael - as were 6 others on his baseball team that year. IMO parents should consider a name that not only fits a child but that also will be appropriate when they are an adult. Since it’s the first word most often learn to write, they need to cut out the weird spellings.
>>they need to cut out the weird spellings.<<
Plus you are sentencing your kid to a lifetime of either spelling it each and every time it comes up (”it is Beqkee” with a “q-e-e”) or just having it flat-out wrong.
Ha...I went on a week-long trip in a Winnebago with four guys, and three of us were named “Bob”...you can imagine how quickly we got fed up with that!
Also-if you ever go into the military, God help you if you have a bizarre name that requires lots of explaining for either meaning or spelling. There will likely be lots of time spent explaining things, and nobody wants to be the nail that is sticking up!
In those cases, the children would thank the parents later for naming them “Mark” or “Joseph”...:)