I can think of one that appeared in various blogs:
I don’t know any Adolf personally, but there are/were some public figures of that name in my lifetime who wisely went by Adi or Addi, respectively, like Adi Hütter or Addi Furler (born in March 1933, ouch).
You just reminded me of Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas. Born 1900, so no ouch, except he was a member of the Nazi Party.
This one girl, in the '60s, did not want to tell her name. She seemed embarrassed. After some coaxing, she revealed it: Adolphine (definite ouch)
Post of the day award.
I had a boss back in the 70s who was named Adolph (with that spelling). But he was African American.
I always said the “G” stood for Gilligan.
Harry S Truman might understand.
Friends sometimes nickname me Em. I sometimes have joked that it sounds like they’re calling me the letter M.
A friend of mine actually called me M in written communication after that. It was amusing. 
Were you listening to Little Steven on Sirius XM’s Underground Garage today by any chance?
I’ve wondered why people think it’s a good idea to saddle their kid with a misspelled name?
A phonetic spelling may seem cute for a baby. But imagine when that person is working in a professional field 25 years later.
I tend to doubt the folks who name their baby something like “Brandy” are visualizing her being, say, a presiding judge.
Judge Sandi Beech with a 
over the I.
Yeah, you name a future judge something like Learned Hand…
I don’t know, but I suspect it’s related to the way that my university students can spell the same name two different ways within a single paragraph (whether handwritten on an exam or typed in a paper). A large number of people don’t seem to find it important that things are spelled consistently or correctly.
I also see, from hobby genealogy, that almost every single individual had their name spelled multiple ways in officialdom before the computer era. I really think that the idea that there is a single preferred spelling for a name is historically unusual, even among literate groups. The 21st century is MUCH more anal about having records match than the 20th century was.
Me, too. But it’s a little more unusual if you insist, as I do, on the full “Michael”. Sooo many want to shorten it to “Mike”, which I loathe.
I’d say that’s actually a darn good name for a judge. Assuming s/he lives up to it, of course.
Spelling in general used to be a lot more whatever you want to use thing.
Here’s an article in the Oxford English Dictionary blog that points out:
In the late-fifteenth century printers began printing books written in the form of London English which had already become a kind of standard in manuscript documents. Between 1475 and about 1630 English spelling gradually became regularized. There are noticeable differences in the look of printed English before the mid-seventeenth century, but after that date it is largely the same as modern English, the major difference being the use of the long s (∫) in all positions except finally.
More:
By the mid-seventeenth century printers followed general principles of spelling much like the present ones. Notably the modern distinctions between I and J and U and V were established by about 1630. The spelling of nearly all individual words was also identical with present-day forms in printed books. In ordinary handwritten documents, however, even those of well-educated people, spelling continued to vary noticeably until well into the eighteenth century.
Also goes into the Great Vowel Shift’s effect on spelling, and a lot of other interesting stuff for word nerds.
He did OK.
The young lady in question had had 4 children by 4 different fathers by the time she was 20. She quit high school when her first child was born and then continued to get preggy while living in her mother’s home. When I met her, they were all living in an RV on her mother’s property and not allowed in the mother’s home for bathing or cooling down and RV’s aren’t great in the summer. Or winter. Or getting preggy again, so her mother did the right thing there IMHO.
I didn’t judge, that wasn’t my job, so she felt free to tell me that she was really sorry for her bad choices and sorry that her children were suffering because of her choices.
She said she should have waited to have sex and should have finished high school and should have named Imperious Tyrael instead cause the kids in school all knew that Imperious was a bad guy and picked on him.
SMH.
Yes, but we more or less had complete standardization by the 19th century, so it doesn’t really explain living people or the five generations prior.