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Are there any specific 'rules' you use to help you when naming combos?
Do you like alliteration, or try to avoid?
Do you avoid using names with similar endings?
Do you take initials into account?
Do you like alliteration, or try to avoid?
Do you avoid using names with similar endings?
Do you take initials into account?
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Interesting and intrequing question.
With me, I avoid alliteration, same endings and try to balance the sylabbles out.
So combos such as:
Samantha Sadie
Amanda Nora
Elizabeth Alexandria
Would be what I would personally advoid. If I were to pair Samantha with some other name, my rules would be that it can't start with an S or end in "A"
With me, I avoid alliteration, same endings and try to balance the sylabbles out.
So combos such as:
Samantha Sadie
Amanda Nora
Elizabeth Alexandria
Would be what I would personally advoid. If I were to pair Samantha with some other name, my rules would be that it can't start with an S or end in "A"
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Now I think about it, I do have rules of some sort.
I don't really mind about alliteration unless it sounds stupid.
I avoid names with rhyming endings (e.g. Stella Isabella) or very similar ones (e.g. Juno Margot), and often if the first name ends in a consonant, I like the middle name to end in a vowel sound. But not always, e.g. I like Astrid Alice, which is full of alliteration and neither ends in a vowel! If a first name is short, I like a longer middle name, e.g. Tess Aurelia, Lucy Olympia. If a name ends in a vowel, especially and A or E sound, I don't like the middle name to start with the same sound. Like Lydia Avalon is kind of jolting to say, and Lily Eve runs into itself. A consonant ending and consonant beginning can do the same thing, e.g. Belle Margot. You kind of have to slow down or concentrate to say it properly. (Maybe this is just something I find annoying.)
Haha, yes I take initials into account. At least I would if I was naming an actual human and a last name came into play.
This is strange, I've never fully thought about the little rules I give myself. I had to look at all my combos to work them out!
And it's probably worth saying that these are pretty much rules for girls' names. I play around with girls' names much more than boys'.
I don't really mind about alliteration unless it sounds stupid.
I avoid names with rhyming endings (e.g. Stella Isabella) or very similar ones (e.g. Juno Margot), and often if the first name ends in a consonant, I like the middle name to end in a vowel sound. But not always, e.g. I like Astrid Alice, which is full of alliteration and neither ends in a vowel! If a first name is short, I like a longer middle name, e.g. Tess Aurelia, Lucy Olympia. If a name ends in a vowel, especially and A or E sound, I don't like the middle name to start with the same sound. Like Lydia Avalon is kind of jolting to say, and Lily Eve runs into itself. A consonant ending and consonant beginning can do the same thing, e.g. Belle Margot. You kind of have to slow down or concentrate to say it properly. (Maybe this is just something I find annoying.)
Haha, yes I take initials into account. At least I would if I was naming an actual human and a last name came into play.
This is strange, I've never fully thought about the little rules I give myself. I had to look at all my combos to work them out!
And it's probably worth saying that these are pretty much rules for girls' names. I play around with girls' names much more than boys'.
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I avoid alliteration as well as rhyming.
I don't tend to take initials into account (though I probably should, as my son was quite proud to discover around the time he was in grade one that his own initials spell out Jak; he's since been using it as a nickname in addition to Jackson, though where he got the random 'son' is anyone's guess).
I also try to mix up numbers of syllables. Random example: John Frank Jones doesn't sound as good to me as John Franklin Jones, and Jonathan Edward Jones sounds even better.
I don't tend to take initials into account (though I probably should, as my son was quite proud to discover around the time he was in grade one that his own initials spell out Jak; he's since been using it as a nickname in addition to Jackson, though where he got the random 'son' is anyone's guess).
I also try to mix up numbers of syllables. Random example: John Frank Jones doesn't sound as good to me as John Franklin Jones, and Jonathan Edward Jones sounds even better.
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