What were your naming rules?

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BananaBubbles · 26/09/2012 14:20

What were your 'rules' when naming your dcs?

I'm curious to know if it had to be modern,classic,unusual,religious,beginning with a certain letter,a family name,popular etc.

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meditrina · 26/09/2012 15:06

No names of exes.

No names of living family members.

Something with good nn potential so DC could have options later in case they didn't like the name as much as we did.

Something which didn't sound risible or just pigging awful with DH's awkward surname.

persephoneplum · 26/09/2012 15:01

Sounds good on a high court judge or on a plumber
Not in top 50
Traditional but slightly left of the mainstream traditional

We ended up with Felix and Theodore (Theo) based on these rules. Theo isn't even top 100 here in Australia although I'm aware it's very popular in the UK. Our third boy will be Kit (Christopher), Reuben or something else we haven't decided on yet!

LoonyRationalist · 26/09/2012 14:56

1: Must not be too popular (there were 3 of me in my class at school iyswim)
2: Must be easy to pronounce & not mean anything bad/rude in both English and Spanish.
3: DH & I must agree

#1 is obviously easy to achieve
#2 few names had to be discarded but not too bad
#3 an absolute nightmare :)

Dogsmom · 26/09/2012 14:45

Most importantly not a common dogs name, I work with them and have many associations, must be suitable for any age, not cutesy, we must be sure she'd feel confident telling people her name without worrying about being teased, not faddy, must shorten well and not rhyme with anything bad.

Can you see why we struggle?.....

Natnat29 · 26/09/2012 14:30

Oops forgot another rule - the name had to suit a baby, a child and an adult if you see what I mean. We discounted a lot of girl names on the basis that they were to cute for a woman

Natnat29 · 26/09/2012 14:28

Outside top 50. Old fashioned but 'different'.
We both had to compromise a lot to get to this, good luck choosing :)

rachel1970 · 26/09/2012 14:22

Outside the top 100 (i.e. not massively popular already)
Works in German, French and English (due to family)
Sounds good with short surname
That we love the name!

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