I guess I have personal rules... Me and Mike are pretty together on most of them.
1. Any name we pick will be something that WE love, whether others agree or not. Naming is going to be solely between Mike and I, and we're not going to just "settle" for any names. Thankfully, we have very similar tastes that make this easy. But neither of us are going to just agree to make the other happy. We want to have names that we adore.
2. No "creativity". Our names are going to be fairly familiar names, nothing that looks made up. And we're going to go for traditional spellings. Its not that we don't want to have a different name or one that stands out. Its just that we don't want anything that looks made up, as Neveah does (our personal opinions, no offense!). And we don't want to change spellings on a perfectly good name (no Broockelynne's). We don't mind the idea of using names that are lower on the popularity list, I know I'd prefer it! But we want our child to have a name they can easily love, little to no pronunciation issues or spelling problems. We feel changing things up just makes things a bit harder for the child.
3. No teasing potential. We want a name that if we present it to a bunch of 10 year olds they wont start snickering. Me and my best friend joke about that, its the "name test". Present a name to a bunch of 5th graders and if they start joking about the name then its a no-no. We wont have any strange initials either. It isn't horribly hard with his LN starting with an E. I don't see too much for initials that would be a problem.. but still.
4. Avoid names that have D's in them. Its not a biggie, but I personally would prefer it. His last name has a D in the second syllable that stands out, so any D name would sound clunky with it. Its not set in stone, but it is a preference.
5. When we are expecting, there will be a thorough, ongoing search for the perfect name. Mike actually stated this one, and I'm loving his style
I am always up for a good name search! However, Mike really stresses about having a name that the child will appreciate growing up with. He talks about how he will be called this for the rest of his life (or her, haha), so it better be a darn good name! He really does like names, and even though we're not expecting he will chat with me a little about potential names to consider. Though he's 100% that our first boy will be named Roman Connor. He even refers to our future kid like that haha, gotta love it.
6. Siblings will have to sound good together. Another that isn't set in stone, but it matters to me. I don't want the names to sound overly matchy, I just want the names to sound pleasant together. like they're meant to be. There's nothing wrong with sibling sets like Annabel and Archer. They are two distinct names, never will be necessarily confused with each other, and sound fine together. But I'd rather not have the obvious A theme, and if we happened to have a third child we'd have to settle on another A name so the last kiddo isn't out of the loop. Maybe we can find connection through the same ethnic origin, or maybe the same amount of letters, or even they all have the same meaning (ie joy, love, fire, etc).
I used some gold coloring for our golden rules haha
I kinda posted a lot of names, but I feel like they flow into each other very well. Cause finding the perfect name would result in us using names we both love extensively, no teasing potential, and finding names that sound pleasant to the ears (ie without D's, perfect sibling sets) and pleasant to the eyes (no creative spellings). But eh, its fun writing them out! I don't really consider them rules though, because we don't have to hold ourselves to them. We kinda naturally do. Like when we picked Roman Connor, it sounds pleasant, no creative spellings and no D's, and it flows perfectly with his last name. Idk! <3
