Jaze or Jayze

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To be pronounced to rhyme with maze?

I prefer Jaze as it's simpler but my DP thinks Jayze looks more solid as a name. We don't like traditional names so James is off the menu. We liked Jay but it's a bit overdone and more boring.

Would definitely read both as Jay - Z. Ridiculous “name” … reminds me of Jays Fluid

Gosh neither. Why are you trying to be so avant-garde, you are going to saddle your poor child with either of these ridiculous names?

Zade is very nice in my opinion. Real and respectable. Mace?

I quite like Jaze but then again, I like more unusual names!
Zane is ok too.
Maybe I'm weird 😂

I work in a school though and so many popular names that you end up with countless numbers of them in a year group and then you have to think, 'Are you Alex A, Alfie G, Logan B etc etc etc. (nothing wrong with those names btw).

Kade is nice with the K and the D to balance the long vowel sound. It doesn't sound like anything else, and can't be shortened.

I think River is really good and a little bit known and popular, but still stands out and there won't be many at school. A river is such a lovely thing to think of: cool, strong, flowing, deep and mysterious. I think I would use it, but too old to have kids. I actually love it.

Please don't. They're both awful names

There is a Scottish former footballer called Asa ( Hartford), which is a Hebrew name.

I've always really liked it, and it goes with the long hair on a man, of his era in being a little bit feminine ( with the 'a' at the end) which I find I really like for a male, too, also.

I think it would go well before a lot of last names, too. ( It certainly has a good ring about it in front of Hartford).

If it is the a you like, how about Ezra?

Another set of parents thinking they’ll be a bit different when it’s your child lumbered with a ridiculous name.

Sorry typo, for a read z.

Zade comes across as a girl name to me. Too close to Jade maybe.

How about -
Cade
Zane
Zeke
Zen
Zion
Xander
Xavier

Hilarious thread. Thanks all😂

This is clearly a wind-up to get MN going.

I predict it will be all the rage in the Youth Court in 2035.

Zebedee ?

Any of the 'ayden' names. They're great. Jayden, Kayden, Brayden (sp?), Grayden, Spaden, Maiden, Laden. You can have so many! 😋

This thread is peak MN snobbery.

If you like 'Jay' names then how about the Cornish name Jago?

I like Zade and Jaze spelt that way, Jayze reade as Jay-Zee.

Names that come to mind,
Storm
Axel
Jax
Zeb
Hero
Tide
Shadow
Duke
Abel
Laser
Jet

Better on a thread than the poor child coping with it in real life - people are right to dissuade OP from these choices.

Zane
Cade
Jayden
Blake
Blaine
Dane

I read it as Jyz

cool idea, bro

There is zero point trying to create a unique name for your baby.

Yes,

Ezra
Jago

Both good.

How about Rage?