Baby Name Poll Results

I’m just curious as to what people’s opinions are on this. A friend of mine recently had a baby girl and named her Francis. I know both names sound identical but Francis traditionally is the male spelling and Frances is female and seems so strange to me to mix them up. When she first told me her baby’s name, before I heard about the spelling, I thought it was beautiful, but then she said: "but I’m spelling it with an I to be different". Anyway, the point I’m trying to make is: do you think that with today’s trends of alternate spellings and unisex names, traditional spelling should still matter? If I’d have seen the name written down first I would have assumed she had made a spelling mistake.