Despite the Spelling, a Name is a Name

Just woke up to a gloriously sunny day in the desert. There's sunlight streaming through my window and watching the sun make a slow ascent over the mountains is almost a zen-like spiritual experience. So why am I penning a rant? Well, because I was stupid enough to turn the TV on.
Couldn't catch my quota of the soaps on Zee and Sony last night since I was working late, and I figured I could just watch the repeat telecasts this morning.
What's with all the weird spellings people use when writing their names these days? Numerology? What is that? How does that have anything to do with their names? In the past, whenever I have made even a slight error in spelling my name [first or last] it has always come back to bite me. "Ma,am, if you are Maggi, who is Maggie? Blah blah." The bank, the passport office, the visa office, whatever. So how come these guys change the way they spell their names so casually? Is there a proper way of making this change? How do they do it? Go present themselves in front of a judge and claim, "Main Geeta pe haath rakhke kehti hoon ki main hi Maggie thi, Maggi hoon...aage pata nahi kya rahungi?"
The puzzle does not end there. Even serials get rechristened. All the double rr's [Sarrkkar], double hh's [Rishhtey]...grr!
Oh, and talking about names, the male characters' names [in these serials] are getting fancier by the day. Gone are the days when Ram and Shyam ruled the roost. Now it's the Daksh's, Laksh's, Ansh's, Shlok's, Moksh's, Antariksh's and Angad's that make the circuit. Did someone tell the producer of the show that having a male character with "ksh" in his name would spell [no pun intended] success? I wonder.
So, you might wonder, if Ms. Maggi has such an issue with names and spellings, what is she doing watching these inane shows? Well, I say, within Ms. Maggi's psyche the need to rant outweighs all other needs. There's only so much Zen and morning glory I can take.