Zachary Connelly?

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Surname isn't actually Connelly but close enough for these purposes!

Zachary has always been top of our boys list as we both love it. But I have a few niggling doubts about whether it actually works with our surname. If you use the full name does it sound a bit too Hickory Dickory Dock?! Two 3-syllable names ending in y... I don't know.

Then with the inevitable Zac/ch/k shortening (even more inevitable as our chosen-for-family-reasons mn starts with A, so the initials would actually spell Zac) I worry about the first name and the surname running into each other or requiring a slightly artificial pause?

DH keeps suggesting Zachariah as a way of avoiding the nursery rhymeyness, but though I think it's fabulous he'd never be called it and would always be Zac, whereas I love Zachary and would like to have a full name that would actually get used.

Too many flaws or am I totally overthinking this?!

Too much of a tongue-twister.
I thought the done thing was to have a short first name if you've got a long surname? I went with that for my DD.

Sounds fine to me.

As long as it's not really Zachary Dachary, it's ok.

I love Zachary but because our surname is 3 syllables we're going to go for Zac - that's what we'd call him anyway so don't really see the point in giving a longer first name just for the sake of it if it's not going to be used.
Zac is a name in its own right - I guess in a similar vein to Jake, Toby and Ben etc.

I think with your surname ending in y too makes it even more of a tongue twister.

Could you just go with Zac?

I wouldn't worry about it my BF was Jacqueline that surname. Even though she was usually Jackie, it still has a sing song flow to it.

Just as the famous comedian's name does. I don't think it matters.