Name ideas

[xbeforexthedawn.livejournal.com]

Still working on girl names.. already have the boy name.. So what do you think of these? What do you like best?
1.Shay Leigh
2.Paige Marie
3.Taylor Paige
4.Shay Taylor
5.Shay Marie
6.Taylor Ray

Any other suggestions of *Different* names would be cool too. :)

Comments

[neroli.livejournal.com]

My favorites? Hm, well, if I just tell you up front, it's just some random stranger's personal preference, right? So let me explain why I chose the ones I did.

Names tend to complement each other better in combination if they have a distribution of rhythms and sounds. When they lack this, the combinations can end up sounding uninteresting and singsongy rather than musical.

The three names below are good examples of this sort of singsongy quality because the stress falls on the first syllable of the first name and the first syllable of the second name, plus this stressed syllable also rhymes (Tay/Pay/Shay/Ray):

Taylor Paige
Shay Taylor
Taylor Ray

To me, the individual names here are fine; they just don't sparkle in combination. So that's why I don't care for these three combos.

Now, Shay Leigh does not have rhyming syllables, but both names have just a do have just a single syllable. If I compare Shay Leigh with the rhythm of something like Annika Leigh, the second is so musical and flowing, and the first just is a little clunky.

So, because of rhythm and rhyme, my favorites of your combos are Paige Marie and Shay Marie. My personal preference would be for Paige Marie, because I think it is adorable on a little girl but would also fit a teen, a career woman, or a grandmother. It's really versatile.

Hope this helps!

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Yea, what she said.

Seriously, that was the first thing I noticed about most of these names too -- I dislike the repeated "AY" sound.

The Marie combos sound the best, however the mn Marie is so dull as to practically be invisible. I don't think it does anything to make the combo sparkle.