Kourtney and Khloe. At least their sister’s name is normal. 
Are "mispelled" names in X on purpose or due to poor education? And if the latter why no correction?
I think it was important to have “Americans” included because apparently (judging by a number of the threads he’s started) we’re some alien culture that he’s studying, and no black or other-hued people on the rest of the planet make up “weird” names.
Or he can’t be bothered to read this similar thread that’s been running for a while.
I’ve always wondered about Anfernee Hardaway. I could absolutely believe that someone, of any skin color, is stupid enough to accidentally misspell their kid’s name. I choose to believe it’s just trying to be different.
Edit : I’d bet a week’s pay that, from the OP, “Justyce” and “Destynee” are specifically crafted that way.
Anecdote : I have a niece, with a very unconventional spelling of the name “Caitlyn.” The first time I had a moment alone with my wife after meeting the kid, I asked, “Do they KNOW that they spelled her name wrong?” My wife said, “No, and don’t tell them. It’s been brought up among the family.” They apparently did NOT check any spellings, and wound up with a clusterfuck of a name.
Well, that’s designed, just like Roger Clemens’ K-monikered kids. I forget the names, but it’s ridiculous, like Koby, Kady, Konstantine, some horseshit like that.
Edit : From Wikipedia : “Kory Allen, Kacy Austin, and Kody Alec—all given “K” names to honor Clemens’s strikeouts (“K’s”).” How fucking arrogant.
That spelling is not uncommon. Why do you assume it was a misspelling?
Throwing a bunch of "y"s into a name is a very common thing. In the case of OP, it’s clearly intentional, and not particularly confined to any given race.
I know the OP was about the US, but I’m pretty sure that in Brazil some names wind up funny because the parents are semi-literate. They have a current thing for funny names at the moment too, especially for English sounding names. Only they don’t know what actual English names are, and wouldn’t know how to spell them. Since Portuguese doesn’t use K, W or Y they love putting those in as bonus letters. Often the kids we would get in where we worked would tell us their name, and their birth certificate would say something very different, and often something we couldn’t really make sense of. Or you would get variant spellings per the child, birth certificate and other official documents, eg: Wherrinkton, Wellington, Wenninkton, Uellingtom, (this could go on a while).
So at least in some part of the world, it really is an issue. One that can, potentially, create some problems.
He didn’t say *that *was the spelling, he said that was the name that was misspelled.
I could never get “Michael”. What a goofy spelling that is. My best friend growing up was named “Mikal”. That makes sense, that other spelling is just pointlessly confusing.
had the other sister had a “y” in her name as well, i would have guess it was to set them apart as a proper names rather than common nouns - Destynee explained that after Autymn fell, Justyce felt that it was her destiny to seek justice for her sister.
He actually asked if the names were misspelled on purpose or not. If a name is deliberately spelled in an unusual way then that’s an intentional non-standard spelling, not a misspelling.*
I forgot to mention before, but since about the 1950s it’s been pretty common for (mostly white) Americans to vary the spelling of girls’ names ending with an “ee” sound. In most cases the traditional spelling of these names ends with a “y”, but you’ll see “ey”, “ie”, “i”, and sometimes even “ee”. I have a pretty straightforward first name ending in “y” and I’m often asked to spell it out because there are women who spell it other ways. While I suppose there may have been some parents confused about the traditional spellings of these “y” names, I think most were just trying to be creative or make the name look more feminine.
*I’d say that even if a non-standard spelling originated as a mistake by the parents, once the kid is given the name then it’s not a misspelling anymore with regard to that individual. It’s the correct way to spell that particular child’s name even if no one else uses the same spelling.
I know someone whose name was misspelled on his birth certificate by accident, and so that’s why his name has an unusual spelling.
When my friend was born, his dad thought that the name “Roger” was spelled “Rodger”, so that’s what he wrote on the birth certificate. So that became my friend’s name.
I believe that “Rodger” is also an accepted (though) rare spelling, though.
I once knew a Rodger, so unless this was the same guy then he’s not the only one out there.
Turning to my favorite name-related tool, the Name Voyager, I see that the “Rodger” spelling was used as far back as the 1910s and was fairly common in the 1940s – although far less common than “Roger”, which was in the top 25 names for boys at that time.
I don’t know about the other names, but Konstantine is spelled with a K in Russia.
Cannot remember the name now [damn it] but I worked with a mother and daughter once and the daughter’s name was misspelled because the mother got it wrong. They were white Americans.
That is not the spelling, that is the CORRECT spelling. I did not put my niece’s exactly-spelled name in the post.
Edit : What Eyebrows said. Yay, reading comprehension!
Thanks for the input.
Should Dwyane Wade be pronounced “Dwi-yane”, or was it also misspelled by Mom?
ETA, turns out it was misspelled by Grandma, so here’s one for the OP!
Wait, is that his name? I’ll be damned, I never noticed, and I followed his career at Marquette!