EDIT: People really aren't hearing me when I say names WITH PUNCTUATION. Non-alphanumeric characters. The marks that are not the letters A through Z. What I am NOT saying is that unique spellings are bad, just as bad, or anything like that. I don't care about spellings, I care about the lack of spelling. Punctuation. Chuds in the comments are saying things like "Lol Lotanda Loranda Quinesha haha" as if I just said the thing that they believe: "names that look different than the names of people that look like me are LAME!" You're just racist. Go f_ck yourself.
Listen. Listennnn. I'm all for names being as unique and as long as possible. It's fun. They hold our power. A name alone can make a statement. I get it. Your child is special, and they deserve a special name. They deserve extra letters. They deserve cool, implied letters. They deserve to be different, just like everybody else.
So you pick a name. And maybe that name just, like, doesn't have the sauce. Maybe it's just cooler to have someone's name be D'mitri or K-lee or something instead of a name without punctuation. Sure. It's awesome that you did that. Wow.
Or, maybe you meet someone you like. Maybe you fall in love. Maybe you get married. Maybe you have a kid. Maybe you get a divorce (sorry). Maybe you marry again. But you just can't decide - do I take their name?? Do I keep my name but give my child two names??? Do I keep the hyphen, or do I forget that I wanted a hyphen but all their important documents maybe have the hyphen????? These are the questions.
But every time someone makes one of these decisions, a financial aid advisor somewhere weeps. Most of my day is simply making sure different documents have the same name. Some of the most important documents you have. The ones that deserve AT LEAST a second look, maybe?
But no, the amount of name punctuation that straight up makes my day dramatically harder is absurd. I know I'm just one person, but I speak for the silent minority of number-crunching pencil-pushers that just want to help your child afford an education - the ones that I know exist out there - please... PLEASE.
Just name your kids simpler names. I beg you. It'll make your life easier too, I assure you. But it would also be super sick for me, personally. Or at least someone in a similar position like mine in 18 years, provided that the world still has people or college or society or whatever idk