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BlackLantern · 2024-10-02T07:47:18+00:00

So the name we like just rhymes with our surname and I think it will always sound silly. So many names we can’t use due to the sound and layout of the surname. Do we just suck it up and give them a rhyming first/second name and acknowledge it’s always going to be an issue whatever we pick or pick something that works and we don’t love as a name?

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pinkyredrose · 03/10/2024 14:16

Give the baby a different surname?

ItGhoul · 03/10/2024 14:13

QuickTraybake · 03/10/2024 07:47

DS’s school has a lot of year 7s with wonderful names. Honestly I will NOT say them otherwise you will think you had dyslexia. It is just a load of random letters for the first name and a difficult surname for the last. I will say ONE example: Tomilola. Tommy + Lola???

Do you have to work at being this ignorant, or does it come naturally to you?

readyforroundthree · 03/10/2024 13:42

I think if it's rhyming along the lines of 'Bob Job' or 'Ken Pen' then I would choose a different name. My surname begins with O and the only boys name we liked began with O as well, and as much as I would have wanted to use it we wouldn't have because I think sometimes names can sound a bit cartoon character when they are similar sounding.

BobbyDazzler11 · 03/10/2024 13:40

JingsMahBucket · 03/10/2024 08:30

@QuickTraybake that name is Nigerian not English. Try to be more curious and less ignorant. And don’t out your students. 🙄

Not defending the poster but she said DS school? Not her students

OhMrPleasant · 03/10/2024 13:30

It is just a load of random letters for the first name

After all the years of being in the EU and of immigration, and of seeing native Celtic names in common use, it's depressing that so many people, usually English sadly, still view every name through the lens of the English language, and regard anything else as gobbledegook. Seriously PP, did you really look at that name and assume it was Tommy and Lola merged together? Did it really not cross your mind that as it was unusual (to you), it might have an origin that isn't English? And that those "difficult" surnames might actually just be from another culture?

I'm not sure if, as other posters suggest, you are ignorant or racist or xenophobic, but you are certainly narrow-minded. Get out more, hen, it broadens the mind.

JingsMahBucket · 03/10/2024 09:19

@Catandsquirrel exactly. Google is fucking free and @QuickTraybake could've just looked it up instead of name shaming a child in her role as a teacher for goodness’ sakes. But then again, a lot of the posters on the Baby Names forum are really ignorant and xenophobic or just plain racist.

Catandsquirrel · 03/10/2024 09:08

Catandsquirrel · 03/10/2024 08:48

That's a traditional Yoruba name from Nigeria. How ignorant.

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The meaning is actually really beautiful. To +mi = enough for me and Lola = to have wealth in a the sense of spiritual fulfillment, success, regard rather than just cash. It's blessing the child with enough of all of those things. Note how it's about enough, not excess.

It's a very established name.As for these 'dyslexic' strings of letters, another background too?

Catandsquirrel · 03/10/2024 08:48

QuickTraybake · 03/10/2024 07:47

DS’s school has a lot of year 7s with wonderful names. Honestly I will NOT say them otherwise you will think you had dyslexia. It is just a load of random letters for the first name and a difficult surname for the last. I will say ONE example: Tomilola. Tommy + Lola???

That's a traditional Yoruba name from Nigeria. How ignorant.

elQuintoConyo · 03/10/2024 08:46

I know a Pat Paine, and he used to live in Peene 😀

But there must be lots of names that will work with your surname:
Elizabeth: Liz, Lizzy, Liza, Eliza, Betty, Beth... Etc.
Oliver - Ollie, Iver/Ivor
Samuel - Sam, Sammy,
*Are you expecting a boy or girl?

My surname is 3 syllables and ends in an 'ee' sound, my mum loved the name Natalie, but it was such a 6-syllable mouthful!

JingsMahBucket · 03/10/2024 08:30

@QuickTraybake that name is Nigerian not English. Try to be more curious and less ignorant. And don’t out your students. 🙄

QuickTraybake · 03/10/2024 07:47

DS’s school has a lot of year 7s with wonderful names. Honestly I will NOT say them otherwise you will think you had dyslexia. It is just a load of random letters for the first name and a difficult surname for the last. I will say ONE example: Tomilola. Tommy + Lola???

Babbahabba · 02/10/2024 21:07

Don't give them a rhyming name. Also make sure their first name is spelt the standard way. I have a difficult foreign surname and parents gave me a common easy forename but spelt it a very non standard spelling so I go through life spelling them both 🙄

Thewalrusandthecarpenter · 02/10/2024 19:45

WaitingForMojo · 02/10/2024 19:04

I worked with a surgeon called Mike Pike. He went by Mike not Michael by choice because it made him memorable.

I used to know a Nick Stick. Same thought process.

heldinadream · 02/10/2024 19:40

titchy · 02/10/2024 19:22

Channelling your inner Mrs Doyle?!

OP Would a different shorter version of the first name appeal? Instead of Chris Liss, you abbreviate to Toffer Liss eg.

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Oh god yes I'd forgotten that! 😂

titchy · 02/10/2024 19:22

heldinadream · 02/10/2024 19:16

Sam Jam.
Julie Beuley.
Hairy McLairy.
Beverly Cleverly.
Maxon Jackson - or Jackson Maxon.
Rufus Drewfus.
Kate Speight.
Sandra Landra.
Ruth Booth.
Anne Mann.
Jenny Spenny.

Channelling your inner Mrs Doyle?!

OP Would a different shorter version of the first name appeal? Instead of Chris Liss, you abbreviate to Toffer Liss eg.

HamSad · 02/10/2024 19:22

There are literally thousands of names that don't rhyme with whatever your surname is

heldinadream · 02/10/2024 19:16

Sam Jam.
Julie Beuley.
Hairy McLairy.
Beverly Cleverly.
Maxon Jackson - or Jackson Maxon.
Rufus Drewfus.
Kate Speight.
Sandra Landra.
Ruth Booth.
Anne Mann.
Jenny Spenny.

WaitingForMojo · 02/10/2024 19:04

I worked with a surgeon called Mike Pike. He went by Mike not Michael by choice because it made him memorable.

AutumnTimeForCosy24 · 02/10/2024 18:58

KirstenBlest · 02/10/2024 18:22

My name can't read or write either.

😂😂

SoupDragon · 02/10/2024 18:56

Please don't give your child a rhyming name. It's not fun at all.

KirstenBlest · 02/10/2024 18:55

@sel2223 , and there I was thinking she was called Alexia or something.
Autocorrect has a lot to answer for.

HelloDarkroomMyOldFriend · 02/10/2024 18:51

Can you change your surname to something you prefer?

sel2223 · 02/10/2024 18:49

DisforDarkChocolate · 02/10/2024 18:15

I have an illiterate name and love it, it makes me smile and it's a little bit memorable.

I think you are talking about alliteration.... good old spellcheck! 😅

Dithercats · 02/10/2024 18:36

ButterAsADip · 02/10/2024 17:08

Right, but she’s saying there are hundreds of nice names that won’t rhyme with your one surname?

Give us the ending syllable and we’ll give a list of names that don’t rhyme.

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Yes that's right. If it's the right sound it will be fine x

KirstenBlest · 02/10/2024 18:22

My name can't read or write either.