Alliteration Names

[hannahfaith]

Our last name starts with a hard B sound and my hubs has placed almost a ban for lack of better term on any name that starts with a B. Anyone out there have a name with a "harsh" letter sound name their child with the same letter/sound? Is this a bad idea to do to a potential child?

It didn't do Boris Becker, Brigitte Bardot or Brenda Blethyn any harm.

Is B a particularly harsh letter?

Ben Brown
Beatrice Blake
Belinda Bellingham
Barnaby Burton

...are all random examples but sound fine to me.

Actually maybe not Belinda Bellingham (Bel...Bel...) but there you go!

or Brian Blessed or Billy Bragg

Bjorn Borg
Brooklyn Beckham
Bobbi Brown

I like a lot of alliterative names - of chosen well they can be very bold and stylish.

*if chosen well

Both my children have alliterative names. It wasn’t planned this way- we just liked those names. I really like the way they sound. I think the number of syllables in each name makes a difference

I LOVE alliterative names 💓

It depends on the name, but there is a tendency to sound a bit comic.

My DD’s initials are KC and both as a hard C sound. I think it’s fine but will be name depended. Some combinations will sound ridiculous.

My niece has one. It's a harsh sounding surname with a softer first name. It works.

If you pick an alliteration with K I think you'll get Kardashian questions but B is fine imo. A bit Marvel comics Peter Parker Etc but I think it's fine.

I'm trying to figure out what a hard B sound is?

I assume the ‘hard B’ sound is like the ‘B’ in ‘Burton’ as opposed to a slightly softer sound in something like ‘Beaton’.

That might just be my ears!

My friend is a BB, she has always had that as her nickname rather than a shortening of her first name (she loathes the obvious short version). I think it's fine.

I have an alliterative name, I love it. Its always flowed really well.

@ikeakia you're correct I should've specified. Our last name has the beginning sound like Burton and is a long Polish last name (-ski ending)