As viewed on name tags at the grocery store:
[name]Donte[/name] (as in [name]Dante[/name])
Takeela (as in [name]Tequila[/name])
Overhead at the library (so I am spelling phonetically)
Saudia (as in Saudi [name]Arabia[/name])
sigh
Please share so I don’t feel like I live in a proper name vortex over here!
I was in the airport a few weeks ago and there was an employee named [name]Lolita[/name]. I thought that was fun. Oh! Then there was one named LaPorcha.
[name]Donte[/name] isn’t terrible.
Takeela is hideous.
I think the Saudia you heard was probably a [name]Sadia[/name]. A very lovely name, if you ask me!
Poor Takeela :(.
A girl I went to school with had a son last week and his name is Aschyer ([name]Asher[/name]) Masyn ([name]Mason[/name]).
That poor little boy.
Aschyer…wow. I’m not against some creative spellings, a y instead of an i or something like that, but how would you even get [name]Asher[/name] out of that? It looks like ask-yer or something. Some interesting names from my mom’s k-3 class:
Phiven- pronounced Pih- ven(short I as in [name]Indian[/name])
Bogan- like [name]Logan[/name] with a B
Akinbowale(this one is neat, it is Nigerian, the little boy’s dad is Nigerian)
Ziana - pronounced zye- anna ( long I and short a)
[name]Samara[/name]- pronounce suh-mar-a as in the planet [name]Mars[/name]
I think there are more but that’s all I can remember right now.
[name]Donte[/name]? Yeah, I know a [name]Dontae[/name]. It does get worse, lol! Which is why I totally can’t see the appeal of [name]Dante[/name], people around here have taken it and made it trendy and low-class and meh. 
I know 5 girls named Th0ujmarie, D’M0rnay, K@biliyza, T!que (said like a tiki lamp!), and R@hasha. The first three being sisters. I’m not sure it gets worse than that. They’re, for the most part, adorable, well-behaved little girls, but ey, their names!
I like [name]Dante[/name], there is nothing wrong with it. Not sure I care for spelling it [name]Donte[/name] though.
Aschyer is pretty rough. I wasn’t even sure what name it was supposed to be until you wrote it.
Yeah what worries most about Aschyer is all these people commenting on my friends Facebook wall raving about what a unique and wonderful name it is 
I like [name]Dante[/name] spelled that way, not so keen on the [name]Donte[/name] spelling but maybe the parents were trying to enforce [name]Don[/name]-tay rather than [name]Dan[/name]-tay pronunciation from people not familiair with the name.
Aschyer truly is awful, as is Takeela - at least [name]Asher[/name] and [name]Dante[/name] are legit names, unlike [name]Tequila[/name], even if they’re not the conventionl spellings being used.
And [name]Libby[/name], you’d better hope little Bogan doesn’t go to Australia, it’s a slang term over there for a chav/white trash etc (Aussie Berries, correct me if I’m wrong, it’s just what I’ve picked up from a couple of Aussie shows I watch)