Hey Gyps, another '83 Ashley here.
I know how annoying being Ashley W. (heh we also had that in common, weird) can be.
Having said that, I wasnt about to name our children something completely fucked up and spelled like hell.
Our daughter is named Hailey Elizabeth (Elizabeth after Gids mom and Hailey because it sounded pretty).
Our son is Jackson Cole. (Jackson after Gids dad "Jack" and Cole after my dad and Papa's middle name).
I think that giving your kid some weird name or weird spelled name is just going to cause a world of tears when they get home from school, bullies were picking on them and their easy to manipulate name.
Last night, in a moment of drunken clarity, I realized that while Gid's dad probably had a rough time with his name Jack Medoff (commonly mispronounced as Me-doff), I thought I had spared our son by adding letters, when really, I just made his name as more of an action. Thank god for nicknames. He goes by JJ.