"Smooshed" Names - LIP

MamaMandaW

Now I know alot of people don't like smooshed/compound names on TB.. but i thought this link had a lot of nice smooshies

https://nameberry.com/blog/the-art-of-the-smoosh-the-next-generation-of-compound-names

Enjoy!

punkrockabye

I just can't understand the popularity of "anally" names. They look pretty and seem like they'd BE pretty, until you realize you've named your daughter something that looks and sounds like "anally."

Dominique1219

punkrockabye:

I just can't understand the popularity of "anally" names. They look pretty and seem like they'd BE pretty, until you realize you've named your daughter something that looks and sounds like "anally."

 

Preach!  I'm glad I'm not the only gutter-mind who thought that about the Annalee names.  I just can't get behind (ha! bad pun) smoosh names; they just seem so unnatural, awkward, and painfully contrived to me.

 

ETA: Also, Anneliese reminds me of "anal-ease" as well.  Not sure if that's a smoosh or not, but equally anal-ish to me.

austenreader85

I feel like a lot of those suggestions don't flow well.  I find my mouth stumbling over them.  Why not just do double names instead?

mer313131

I thought a lot of them were ok, but Alexavier??? Holy complex of a name.

emikat

Wrenelise was interesting. 

hid31109

Thanks for sharing, I found a girls name to add to our list that I never would of thought of!

MelleTX

I was intrigued by Zoeeve, but in the end just scratched my head. How would you pronounce it?

Zo-eve?
Zo-ee-eve?
Zo-ee-ehv?
Zo-eh-vee? 

Cissi64

Smooshed names aren't new.  My 24 year old niece dated a boy in HS named Jeremicah. (Jeremiah and Micah smooshed). My guess was they couldn't agree so they compromised