Why would you do this?
A woman in Australia went to great lengths to change the spelling of her daughter’s name. She wanted to call her daughter Kaitlyn but didn’t like that it was so popular.
But instead of choosing a different name or using a C instead of a K, she changed the spelling in a very unique way.
She used roman numerals instead of some of the letters drawing on the pronunciation of the name.
So she replaced the ‘ait’ for the roman numeral for 8. This made K-ait-lyn into KVIIIlyn.
Mad, I know.
Here’s her explanation: