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I guess I don't mind rare names,but I don't care for invented names and deliberate misspellngs. What is interesting, though, is the trend toward a certain superficiality - naming a child based on the "sound" instead of the name's meaning. Although my name is slightly trendy for the time when I was born (its a french feminization of biblical name) my mother picked our names with the meaning very much a driving force in her decision. Call an old-school consideration or relegate it to an ethnic kind of practice, but doesn't meaning matter anymore?

I will say also, on the bigotry argument, I have a different view. When I meet a "Shaylyn", "Traylyn" for example, (90s trends) what comes to mind are people raised comfortable enough in their white privilege to name their kids whatever they like knowing there's no real social repercussions. I guess that's prejudice, too.