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How do you rule out baby names?

ArcticFoxArcticFox member
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how are you narrowing down your list of names/name ideas?  (Aside from simply not liking particular names).

For example, ours:

- has to be more than 1 syllable (last name is 1 syllable)
- can't be a color (last name could be a color)
- has to be feminine (our last name could be a first name)
- and originally I didn't want something popular, but I think I might end up breaking this "rule"
- lastly, I am googling name choices and being careful about initials

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Re: How do you rule out baby names?

  • thetwistedwillowthetwistedwillow member

    The middle name is always a variation of a family member's name. For example our youngest daughter's middle name is Lynn after DH's mother whose name is Lindee.

    For first names we just go through the baby book, name-by-name, and write down which ones we really like. The meaning has a lot of significance to us.

    Then we rule them out. We test them out with the middle name, pretend we're yelling the name, make sure the initials aren't something bad, etc.

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  • timmylulutimmylulu member

    -has to be more than one syllable (last name is monosyllabic)?

    -can't start with a B (last name does)?

    -can't be trendy

    -can't be a color or plant of any type (last name is bush)

    -can't be anything that sounds dirty with bush

    We are also taking initials into consideration ?

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  • AliciaSpringAliciaSpring
    Well I just picked out names I liked gave the list to DH and he picked from there, he only liked one name.
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  • Pennylane824Pennylane824 member

    imageAliciaSpring:
    Well I just picked out names I liked gave the list to DH and he picked from there, he only liked one name.

    I spent weeks making a list of names that I just liked for both boy and girl. I threw some out at him and his favorite for boy and girl were my favorites too and that was that. It would have been Cole James for a boy and Madison Alessandra for a girl. James is the first name of both of our fathers and Alessandra is my middle name and also my Aunt's first name and Great Grandmother's first name. Neither Cole or Madison have any family meaning.

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  • tamedshrewtamedshrew member
    A major factor for us has been that DH is Eastern European and his family cannot say certain sounds or a name here might sound similar to something with a bad or funny meaning in their language.
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