[FrdmLvr]

I’ve been given these two reasons numerous times at how these names are arrived at: sometimes the names are a combination of baby momma and baby daddy names. They take part of each name and combine them to come up with a name for the baby. The second reason is because they want the baby to have a unique name unlike any other, hence the spelling variations. In reality, they just can’t spell.

[Scoutmaster]

The second reason is because they want the baby to have a unique name . . .

According to the book, Freakonomics, there were 228 babies named Unique in California during the decade of the 90s, and one each of Uneek, Uneque, and Uneqqee.

[prof.h.mandingo]

Correct. They also like to “customize” (their term) the mane with weird spellings that make no sense. Worked in welfare office when first out of college, waiting on real job to open up. My favorite name was Rhett Butler for an old black recipient.
Also some kids were named by med. interns. I had friends interning in charity hospitals. They would name the kids sometimes, That was how they got names like syphilis, gonorrhea, etc.