Baby Name Rules

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I'm pregnant with DC2 and have started having name conversations with DH. I've realised that I have some 'rules' that names must comply with and wondered if other people had the same/different rules - or thought that mine were bonkers...

1, no alliteration i.e. Martin Morris is out

2, no rhyming i.e. Doris Morris is out

3, no nicknames on the birth certificate i.e Nicola not Nicky

Our rules were:

1. Nothing ending in "er" as our surname does.
2. Try it with "Lord" or "Lady" in front. "Lady Chardonnay", anyone?
3. Do the Playground Test: shout it across the playground and try not to feel embarrassed.
4. Have a nice long name with plenty of nickname potential so if they hate it there's opportunity for change.

I always thought the name Daisy was from the flower, like Lily & Poppy!

Mine are..

• nothing try hard poncy
• no nick names
• nothing too biblical sounding as we're not religous

I like alliteration. But it depends on the letter.

Daisy Donald and Gideon Gillespie sound great (imo) but Moses Martin sounds terrible. Gwyneth put Moses and Martin together. Any other letter's alliteration is going to sound better than that.

hmm i def had name rules.

1. no girls names that can be shortened to a boys name - ie theresa/terri etc

1. no names that make it sound like you have two last names and no first name ie taylors adams

1. no names mispelled for effect ie lilli instead of lily

Gosh I had some rather complex rules too:

1. Nothing beginning with N as we both do
2. Nothing beginning with K - don't like it
3. Nothing ending in a vowel (surname starts with one)
4. Wanted 3 syllables to balance 3 syllable surname
5. Wanted a 'th' in the name as think it sounds gentle
6. Wanted a name that would suit a baby, child and adult
7. Nothing faddy
8. No ex-boyf/girlf's names
9. Nothing tricky to spell or pronounce
10. Nothing associated with any of the 1000 odd naughty kids I teach or have taught.

There were more.
Safe to say, it was a bloody nightmare......

No rhyming.

No unfortunate initial combos.

No repeating initials.

No using names of living family members - DD has a late family member's name but I would feel weird re-using names. Lots of names had to be dismissed because they were cousins etc.

No using names other family members have dibs on. Might sound weird but DSis had her heart set on using a particular name, so whilst I liked it too, I wouldn't have used it.

I like alliteration but my Dh's rule is that the total number of syllables in the name has to be a prime number!

our DD has 11 in her name. The next one has to aswell!

Love this thread - might adopt all your names although I suspect that there might not be any names left for my future DC's....! will just have to call them 'thingie' and 'you over there'

Actually have just thought of another of my rules no 'brand names' for childs name!

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That should say 'all your names rules' - obviously too over excited...!

Just discovered DH has a rule that I didn't know about (which explains some of his more random name veto's!)

Middle name must be shorter than first name!

1. First name had to be 2 syllables
2. First name could not end in same sound as the beginning of last name
3. Names could not be shortened. I like to use their full name
4. No reason to believe it would crossover from a boys name to girls (although ds1's has a bit anyway)
5. Nothing that could be turned into a jokename

Our rules were:

1. Easily recognisable as a name: easy to spell and pronounce
2. No building materials (DH's rule: I liked Clay, Brick and Steel)
3. Last letter could not be 'N' (surname starts and ends with 'N')
4. Unusual enough that DS will be the only one at school, and likely to be the only person by that name that most people know
5. Nothing silly, wacky, trendy or pretentious