Ahem. Be aware of rhyming possibilities.
And how would that work in Welsh , exactly? 
**Shevaughan **, that is.
btw - I loved Jomo Mojo’s earlier remark
Sadly, or not so sadly, my own name is boring beyond belief (the kind that others get for a middle name), and my siblings’ offspring have names, that, though pretty tedious, at least are not utterly mad. Siblings ditto, although I suppose “Calum” would not be widespread in the U.S.A.
I have worked with a lady named “Beverly Hills” though. Does that count? I had to deal with a passport application for a man named John, but with the middle name of “Christine”. And there was a Mary Ada Little Lamb. 
I think it IS rather bad of parents to forget that, like many a joke or bright thought, it gets old, and it is not so nice to saddle a kid with a name that will be a nuisance to them all through life.
(Utterly away from the subject - you know, I had not heard that Paula Yates was dead - so, SDMB continues to be educational.)
Why, though, does one get the impression that the people who seem fond of “creative” spelling to show how thoughtful and original they are, seem often to be the very people who ought to pay more attention to basic literacy?
Poor kids!
And calling little girls “McKenzie” or “Campbell” seems pretty odd to me too.
<Celyn is practising to be a very grumpy old fogey>
I cannot believe that in all five pages of this thread, nobody has posted a link to this site.
As for names in my family, I have one cousin who named her child after two dear family friends. So the poor kid ended up being named Bracken Waxy Ball. (Ball was his last name.)
I went to high school with Merry Christmas Trees, who had a brother and father named Jack Pine Trees and Pine Forrest Trees. At least everyone had a real name somewhere in the mix.
The tradition of giving idiotic names goes way back, though. My mother in her young adulthood knew a guy whose legal name was Teddy Jack [LN]. What was his mother thinking, to give him two nicknames? (Today, of course, that seems positively innocuous.)
My kid’s name is gonna have an umlaut and an apostrophe in it. Maybe it’ll be the start of a new trend - rather than merely mutilate spelling, you can use gratuitous punctuation, too!
I thought they were naming their kids after the porn star who had a piercing named after her.
My mother wanted to name me Gwynedd pronounced Gwyneth. Thank the Lord my grandmother, who taught 3rd grade, said no teacher would believe me when I said my name was really spelled that way. So now I just have a double ‘n’ in a very normal name.
On the OP talk about Madison, I have 3 several times great aunts, Madison Portia, Jefferson Augusta, and ** Washington Julia**. These ladies were born in the 1890s. So Madison for a girl was around well before the current trend.
My mom’s name is Karn. I’ve never met anyone else with that name, though my mom says that she’s met another. I guess it’s Norwegian.
In 1980s I knew a Carin who said her name was Norwegian.
You’re lucky I didn’t wake someone up with my laughing, Wikkit.
Jamet! It’s either an insult or a Pharaoh. But mostly, it looks like a typo.
She’s lucky it wasn’t Gynel.
The fact that Madison has been around for a long time doesn’t mean its popularity isn’t due to a movie. (The IMDb notes that Splash is “Credited with introducing the girl’s name, Madison, which has since become one of the most popular names for newborn girls in the early 21st century.”) The scenario would be 'kids see the movie, love it, reuse the name when they’re old enough to have kids. The movie Love Story (1970) is credited with the popularity of the name Jennifer in the 1980s, so I think it’s plausible.
Is the name Treat a family name perhaps? It is certainly a last name, sometimes used as a middle name.
Well, there’s Treat Williams. It’s not unheard of, sadly…
pepperlandgirl, we all love the Beatles, but don’t do this to your kids. Especially naming your daughter McCartney, since as others have said, “Mc” means “son of.” If you do, they’ll end up loving gangsta rap anyway. While I’m replying to a year-and-a-half-old post, I’ll add that I’m not sure it’s a great idea to name a kid after a forest (which is apparently what Toiyabe, however you pronounce it, is).
A friend of mine named his son Kalil Thoth. Is that even legal?
I went to school with a brother and sister, Krystyl and Krystyan. Whatever happened to that Chrystal/Christal/Krystal/Kristyl craze/kraze?
After looking through the names for 2002 at this site again, it seems a lot of little girls are going to grow up to be strippers or porn stars (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I mean, Alexis, Brianna, Taylor, Sydney and Chloe are all in the top 25.
Conor in Irish is Conchobhair, I seem to think. That’s a toughie, right enough.
I used to wrok for a man called Con, short for Cornelius and he told me that Conchobhair, directly translated into English means Cornelius.
Sorry, I missed the end off that post
I meant to say finish by saying:
“so I wonder when Conor came into the Cornelius/Conor/Conchobhair equation.”
Does anyone know?
Quoting myself on the Dope! Never done that before!!
Yes! That’s the spelling!
Could you imagine sending a child to school with a name like that?
Conchobhair. This too gets a Hmmm.
A friend of the family named her baby girl Mahkenah.
And I just know that I am a very bad person, because when my wife told me this, I thought; “Why doesn’t she just name her My Mommy Is Illiterate?” it gets the same message across, just more clearly!
I very nearly wound up being named DeVilla after my grandmother.
My mother refused.
Athough the nickname Cruella does have some appeal now - I suspect it wouldn’t have a few years ago.
And my sister is Shevawn. (my parents loved the name, and tried to spell it they way they thought most people would. Didn’t work)
As “Vaughan” is a Welsh name, I’m guessing “Shevaughan.” 
Though assuming the “She” being pronounced anything like it is spelled is a leap I should probably know better than to make.
And speaking of Ralph Vaughan Williams, since when is “Ralph” pronounced “Rafe?” As far as our local classical music station is concerned–and they have always prided themselves on their snootily correct pronounciations–only since Ralph Feinnes got famous enough to correct people’s pronounciations. Before that it was pronounced “Ralph” with the L.
And Pepperlandgirl, I sincerely hope, for the sake of your children, that the father of your children names them and signs their birth certificates before you get out of Recovery. Names like Angel Lennon and McCartney Lynne are just this side of child abuse.
I want to second the people who suggest you try placing “Doctor” or “President” before the names you have picked out. Don’t place your kid behind the professional eight ball with some (what is the politest word I can think of?) stoopid name. My nephew named Jake, not Jacob, is doomed anyway, what with his sociopathic personality, fetal alcohol syndrome intelligence, and unmanaged upbringing, so I won’t be surprised to hear “Jake Conner Lastname” on the news but it will be no credit to him or his family for the news story to be about his arrest. Don’t doom your own child the same way. Take care of the fetus as well as yourself, bring the child up well, and, whatever you do, don’t give your children names most people associate with Hell’s Angels, hookers, or hounds. Check the lists; there are many names that are fairly uncommon but which are still spellable and respectable so you can be creative without subjecting your dear little one to a lifetime of taunts and spelling corrections. And remember that no kid ever landed in therapy because his name was Robert.
A couple of people mentioned that the name Wendy was “invented” by J.M. Barrie and I just have to point out that Cecil and I disagree with that. My great-grandmother, born in 1892, was named Gwendolyn, and used Wendy all her life.