This may be a bit fun for you all, and will really help me out :)

[BabyDubsEverywhere]

Expecting DC 3 in July, so happy and excited, obviously need a name...but...

My taste in names goes against the mumsnet grain, i love the names deemed by you lot to be 'chavvy' (but not ridiculous!) My social group and family cant help me really as they dont like the names i do and try to steer me towards Williams and Elizabeths, (nothing wrong with either but very much not me)

I have an odd spec, that i doubt ill stick to but thought it might be fun to see if it throws up anything i like the sound of...

5 Letter name
Cant start with a K
Cant start with a J
Modern name (sounds better than chavtastic i think ;) )
The second letter needs to be A
The fourth letter needs to be E

And........GO

This thread made me

Love it ! and sod off to all those Clementine/Randolph snobs !! ha ha

Love this thread too . Which names have you added to your list OP?

Taren

Samea

Sonea

La-ren

Hader

Masen

Saren

Gaved

Rayen

sorry if someone's already mentioned it, but the family in the film The Kids Are All Right had a son called.... Laser. Which actually, I quite like. But won't be using myself, so feel free!

Boys

Garen
Jared (J I know)
Malek
Tareq
Daley

Girls

Casey
Lacey
Kaley (K!)
Macey
Narel (le)

Ooh, Pacey... That's very Dawson's Creek, isn't it?

Rhymes with Jacey. Curses!

I'm loving this list, especially Hades and Tazer :o

Yuk.

Ramen.

She already has a jacey and a kaden Maryz

Nope...I got nothing.

Oh... I see what you were doing there Maryz!

I like the crazy rules! In my family, my two siblings and I all have five letters and are in alphabetical order (our middle names also go in an alphabetical pattern)

Don't think either of these have been mentioned yet...

Talea (alt. spelling for Thalia?)
Zalea (like Azalea but without the A...)

haha another vote for Tazer, do hope that's on your shortlist OP!

talking of which, what have you got on your shortlist?

I really want OP to come back and let us know the final name choice.

I (more by chance than judgement) have named my 2 DS's with 'rules' - 3 syllable first name (with a u sound in it) followed by a 1-syllable middle name ending in 'ke' - totally get what the OP is trying to do

Loving some of the names on here - I bet the OP is so glad she came on here as she has now got SO much choice My personal fave is Dalek

I know a family where the children are called Sophie, Toby and Chloe (adults now). All of their names therefore have 2 syllables with an "oh" sound for the first syllable and an "ee" sound for the second. From a distance, all of their names sound pretty much the same. Hence, when their mum used to holler up the stars for one of them to come down and do something, it just sounded like "Ohee" and they never knew who was being called. Of course they used this as an excuse to ignore the call (and whatever task it inevitably involved). "Oh, you were calling me? I thought you said Sophie" etc etc.
With your existing 2 names, the first syllable rhymes (ay sound) but the second does not (one is an "eh" sound and one is an "ee" sound). Hence they are sufficnetly different to avoid confusion. I think the danger you have is that if you stick with your a-e 2 syllable formation, the new name is going to sound too much like one or other of the existing names and cause confusion (eg I think from a distance Haven woudl sound too much like Kaden). Unless maybe you can find a name where the "a" sound is an "ah" rather than an "ay" (eg like in Brandon, although i appreciate that does not satisfy all the criteria).

I think you may therefore need to vary it a little - maybe changing the order of the a and e. For example, I think Tegan (pronounced Teegan I think) would work very well for a girl - it goes with the other names and is sufficently similar in length/letters etc that she should not feel left out!

I am over-thinking this for you, aren't I??

Well i was about to post my shortlis but Wines idea has got me thinking, swapping the A and the E would work, that would still seem balanced in my mind...then maybe i would have to have just one more after this baby so i could have two with the A then E and two with the E then A....hmm....

Okay, will be doing a quick search for names the 'new' way and will post my shortlist tomorrow...along with the alernataives that totally dont fit but will no doubt give you all a giggle that a mumsnetter of 5 years could possibly still be this chavtastic in name choice

Megan, if you're swapping. :)

Blake?

Mason? Could spell it Masen if you wanted, I've seen that.