Baby Name Rules

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KnitterNotTwitter · 07/06/2010 15:22

I'm pregnant with DC2 and have started having name conversations with DH. I've realised that I have some 'rules' that names must comply with and wondered if other people had the same/different rules - or thought that mine were bonkers...

1, no alliteration i.e. Martin Morris is out

2, no rhyming i.e. Doris Morris is out

3, no nicknames on the birth certificate i.e Nicola not Nicky

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minipie · 07/06/2010 15:31

I agree with your rules.

Also:

name must be 2 syllables or more as surname is 1 syllable

nothing that's going to sound ridiculous in 5 years' time.

Plus all the usual onees about avoiding dodgy initials etc.

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KnitterNotTwitter · 07/06/2010 15:30

scurryfunge ooooh - yes I'll adopt the 'no top 10 names' rule. Actually i suspect we're all so desperately trying to find non-top 10 names that we make the uncommon names popular....!

ShowOfHands chuckling at the pudding....actually I like all your rules. p.s. are you a SoH fan, or am I embarassing myself? DH and I are HUGE fans.

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ShowOfHands · 07/06/2010 15:25

I like alliteration. Nothing wrong with it at all.

My rules extended to things like, mustn't be named after one of dh's comic book heroes (though Sinister and Dexter were looking like possibles had I had a boy), mustn't be named after a pudding I once had, nothing made up entirely of consonants, ditto vowels, nothing that rhymes with or is Jayden.

scurryfunge · 07/06/2010 15:25

My rules were to have nothing that was in the top 10 names for the year and to have some family/cultural significance

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