Tongue twister?

[starrier01]

I'm having a baby boy, due in March. My husband and I both love the name Joshua, but our surname is Allen. Is 'Joshua Allen' a tongue twister?

We could add a middle name that would flow better if you said the whole name, but we want to make sure that 'first name surname' on its own sounds ok. Don't want to saddle him with a tongue twister / awkward name

Thoughts?

I just tried to say it and it is a bit of a tongue twister! I don’t think it’s too bad though, if you really like it then go for it.

I think it's fine. It's a nice name

I think it's fine (and nice) but I think it might accelerate the (probably inevitable anyway) move to people calling him Josh so you'd have to be ok with that

It's a lovely name and not hard to say at all. Go for it.

I think it's fine

Just needs a micro pause between the two. Sounds good to me.

It's fine. Joshua is a lovely name.

I agree it's fine.

It's fine with your surname. But I personally don't like Joshua. It's very wet.

I can't see/hear any tongue twister with it tbh!

Joshua will be shortened to Josh when he's a teenager and I don't think that's the best fit with Allen.

I find it hard to say. Josh Allen is fine though.

I can say it perfectly fine, use the name if you like it.

I like it. Joshua was one of the names I had on my list, but I only make girls!

Thanks so much everyone for the replies! Mega relieved that the consensus seems to be it's not as much of a problem as we thought, so that probably tells me that we like the name enough that we should just go for it..!

Only if you like Josh.
Joshua Allen will be said by many as Joshua Rallen (cf Laura Norder, Drawring etc).

I wouldn’t find that a tongue twister I think it’s fine!

It's fine