Unless you’re in the Olympia area, I think I know a different kid named Casanova.
Sadly, he is a homely child.
(I think the name Casanova is stupid for a different reason: it means new house, which makes me think of the Seattle Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus. I love Dave, but I wouldn’t want to name a kid after him.)
There was a mom in our school who had two kids, Jack and Jillian.
I swear to the FSM that it took every thing I had not to point out the obvious to her every time I saw her kids. Her third is named Miya. Two white names from nursery rhymes to odd spelling third name.
I’ve heard them referred to as “future dead kids’ names”.
Lots of Blades around here. After the footballer Brendon Lade. Sad but true.
I always liked the pairing of Sam with Janet, because they then have a ready-made favorite song.
Sam and Janet Evening. 
… you will meet a stranger…
Was any of the eleven perchance “Antjuan?” I had a kid in my Cub Scout den with that name.
And thinking about it, I guess I answered my own question. With eleven spellings, surely Antjuan must be among them.
So what were the other ten? It would certainly be interesting if “Antoine” was not among them.
Antwaan, Antwan, Antwone, Antwon, Antwain, Antwaun, Antowain, Antione, Antuan, Antwoine… and that’s just in the NFL.
thinkbabynames.com lists 17 variations in total, not including Antoine.
ETA: There’s no Antjuan currently in the NFL but there is one on the Texas Tech basketball roster.
There was an Antoine, Winfield to be exact…and I think he was the only one to spell it that way.
I knew a girl in college who went by “Kelli”. I’ve never liked the “I” instead of “Y” spellings for girls names, but I can see why she found “Kelli” preferable to the spelling her parents stuck her with as her legal first name…“Kelleigh”.
Google tells me that Kelleigh is sometimes encountered as a last name so it may have been a family name for her, but I suspect her parents just wanted something fancier or more pseudo-Gaelic sounding. Either way, I guess they didn’t think about how their daughter would be forced to spell out her whole name in all official situations for the rest of her life. I’m sure anyone named Kelly/Kelli gets “Is that Kelly with a Y or Kelli with an I?” a lot, but it must get pretty old having to always say “No, it’s Kelleigh with an E-I-G-H!”
I don’t have a link to the entire article, but here is a relevant cite from Time magazine. Airman had this professor for econ, so the study has kind of stuck with me.
You know a kid named Nevaeh has had parents who guested on the Maury Povich show. Arguing about her legitimacy. And has had a grandmother who vehemently denied both her AND her whore mother, only to have to apologize to “10 milllion viewers.”
When in the hospital after the birth of my own daughter +30 years ago the woman in the bed next to me was having to tell the vital records department at the hospital what her child’s name was to be for his birth certificate. She said, “Le Cleveland Jamar” but when asked, didn’t know how the name should be spelled. “I just going to call him 'Little Cleve,” was her reasoning as not knowing how to spell the kid’s name. <sigh>
I know someone who named their daughter Monet (moh-NAY). I think it sounds really classy.
The only hate-inspiring ones I cand think of are jokes, I’m sure. Lemonjello (le-MON-juh-lo) and Orangejello (o-RON-juh-lo), and Nosmo King (from the “No Smoking” sign in the maternity ward).
Oh, but there is the one guy from my high school, William Williams. He went by Bill. But still…
I’ve known some Hong Kong people who have given themselves some weird names. I’ve met Weeping, Smiling, Protoss, and Squall. Protoss and Squall??? They named themselves after video game characters? I also think it’s weird when parents name their kid John Michael Smith XVIII or something. Please, how hard is it to come up with a different name?
Nah, there are lots of regular Antoines. Winfield, Bethea, Cason, Caldwell, Harris and Holmes.
There’s a woman working in town whose name tag proclaims her to be “Lesleigh”. In the same shopping mall, there’s an Amba (keep in mind Australians tend to swallow their Rs, so that’s an alternative spelling for Amber). The mall in the next town over has a Maranda.
The last time I did this was when Winfield hadn’t been in the league all that long. There may have been many fewer then.
When I hear Angel as the first name, I pray that the last name will be Hispanic.
My son’s soccer coach named his two daughters Stormy and Sunny.
Here’s one of many stories about a dad naming his kid ESPN.
I haven’t checked to see if this is an urban legend, but there’s the email floating around about a mom who named her baby Le-a(It’s pronounced Ledasha, the ‘dash’ isn’t silent).
Speaking of urban legends, there’s always the one about the twins named Orange’ jello and Le’ monjello (Orange Jello and Lemon Jello).
Like BJ Honeycutt on Mash. Named after his mother, Bea, and his father, Jay.
Yeah, but that’s like naming a child after yourself. “You know Lars, Lars’ son?” I don’t think that’s quite the same as Evan Evans. Or Bob Roberts.