First name-Surname Alliteration: Totally Tacky or Marvellously Memorable?

[Lambchop76]

First choice for our daughter is now alliterative with surname... I think it sounds pretty cool, but am I making a rookie error?

I don't think it's as simple as right or wrong. It can depend on what the to names are.

Generally speaking though, I don't think there is a problem with it.

Totally depends on the names - sorry!

The letter also makes a difference. I would never do it but our surname is challenging and I wouldn't have a Sarah/Susan/Sephora Smith either. Elinor Evans or Juliet Jones I might!

Definitely depends.

Sometimes super, often owful

Difficult to say without knowing what the names are - some alliterative names you can get away with.
Ie. Something like Steven Shaw or Graham Gordon sound ok to me but I wouldnt go for Mark Martins or Tim Timmons (sorry, just random names I thought of!)

For me though, one of my baby name 'rules' is no alliteration so I wouldnt do it.

I really like it and was annoyed that our surname starts with an unusual letter and I couldn't find a nice name for dd with the same letter.

There is an auctioneer in Dublin named Felicity Fox. I think it sounds very cool.

But also it has just occurred to me that perhaps Felicity Fox sounds like a potential friend for Peppa Pig. - Oops not so cool after all.

I don't like it, and wouldn't consider any names beginning with J for dd as it would alliterate with the surname.

Fenella Fudge is a newsreader on radio 2.

I mean honestly.

Yes I always :) at fenella!
Ds is tt, but the sounds are different as our surname begins th.

I used to work with a Rosemary Ransom. It just sounded so wonderfully Hollywood glam.

My parents afflicted me with alliterating firstname and surname, and I hated it as a kid - changed to a variant of my firstname with a different initial letter as soon as I could.

I alliterate, and I don't like alliterating. It always annoys me very slightly that my parents were too dead-eared to notice it and avoid it.

I vote no I'm afraid.

I quite like alliterating. Some alliterative names sound just great together. Confident and glamorous. Easy for people to remember too!

We have one and it sounds fine. We didn't give much thought that it was an alliteration because the first name was just right once he was born.

We would have had an alliteration with one of my top three boys' names, it sounded ridiculous so immediately disregarded (sadly as loved the name!).

Great uncle had a cracking alliteration though, so plenty of others could be fine.

Can be amazing. Can be daft! Depends on the names.

Not quite the same, but my mum used to work with a Richard Pritchard. Eek

Dick Prick for short?

My son had my surname when he was in hospital as a newborn, it made the dr's snigger as it sounded like a Peter Rabbit type character name! Sounds much better with DH's surname.

I alliterate
And I love it! to the point i will mourn it if i choose to take dps name, a lot of my friends call me just by my two initials as a nn (much nicer than some if my others!)
Also, Harry Harper on casualty in the 90s sprang to mind, What a cute/ cool name!
It totally depends on the names though obviously, I think too many syllables plus alliteration may sound a tad silly!

we have this problem when naming DS we liked Tobais but would most likely have been called Toby but your last name is Tyler - we couldn't decide if it was great or awful so went with something else.... if we have another DS know we will come back to this name and have the same discussion again! doh!

Why not tell us the surname and what potential name(s) you are thinking of? and see what we think - It really does depend on the name I think

I like it in lots of cases, Greta Garbo, Sam Spade, Walt Whitman.

Depends on the names. Joe Jones wouldn't work terribly well.

I ended up with it through marriage. I wouldn't do it deliberately TBH