Pick your favourite DESPERATE FOR HELP

[Chloebonbon1]

Settled on either Kingston Anthony, Lincoln Joshua, Dexter Nicholas, Harrison Paul, Sinclair Robert or Colton Patrick. A girl will be Taylor Jean, called by both names. DC are Greer Charlotte and Tomlin Michael. Please pick your favourite boy name and say why. Chloe xx

Sorry, I dislike all your first-name choices. (Most of the middle names are nice). And - sorry - your poor daughter. I trust she'll choose to go by Charlotte when she grows up.

All your names sound as if you've mixed up first names and surnames. So many beautiful girls' names out there and you want to call a girl Taylor?!

Sinclair Robert

Joshua or Nicholas

Oh do behave.

OP can choose what name she likes.

Taylor isn't my cup of tea but what the hell is wrong with it? It's hardly Spud or Rubella, is it.

There's giving opinions and just being rude.

Yes, who ever heard of a girl called Taylor, eh? Oh, hang on...

I love Lincoln. Colton is just awful, sorry.

Sorry, but they sound like people's names being called out backwards. As in Cameron, David and Corbin, Jeremy.

Agree with Mint that all those names sound like surname then middle name so they don't sound right to my ears!.

I do love the name Jean though, thanks, I'm adding it to my baby name list!

I'm wondering whether the OP isn't from the UK because the names of her two older children are so unusual with what we would think of very much as surnames for first names. Especially Greer for a girl!

Where I live loads of boys have surnames (including Thatcher, Cooper, Hunter, Mason etc) and Taylor wouldn't make anyone think twice for a boy or girl. I find it very strange, like being back at school again with all the boys called by the surnames.

Anyway I guess that Sinclair and Kingston are the most surnamy of those choices and so would fit best. I do agree that all of the middle names are much nicer though.

Dexter Nicholas is best.

I'm also not keen on your first name choices, sorry! Although, are you in the US? As they would be quite odd here in the UK, but possibly not so much over there. If I had to choose, probably Dexter Nicholas but I think they all work better if you switch the middle and first names round . To my ear, the way you have it sounds like someone calling a register by surname!

I am not fond of surnames as first names at all, and have to agree that for my taste they would all sound better the other way around (middle names first).

But to fair to the OP the name Greer is not her own invention - there was a top Hollywood actress of the 1940s called Greer Garson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greer_Garson and she was actually born in England. She starred in 'Pride and Prejudice' with Laurence Olivier. So surnames as first names is obviously not a new thing, then, even for girls.

I agree with pps about Taylor though. Obviously it is now well known as a first name, but it just makes me think of a little old man measuring up customers for suits, which is where it came from, of course. Maybe it is popular for girls because it sounds like it should be a girls name, rhymes with Kayla, etc. I'd rather have Layla or even Kayla.