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What names do you love that you can't or won't consider because it just doesn't work with your last name?

For me it's:
Alice
Lucy
Sylvia

Silas
Simon
Jonas

My last name is 2 syllables that starts and ends in S.
I'm sure I can't be the only one with a list of loved, but unuseable names!

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Quinn (f) and Quinton (m). I always thought they'd be cool but I married a Mr. Quinton. And lots of boys names that have an, en, in & on ends had to get nixed. My son's middle name is my step-father's last name so names like Grayson Nelson Quinton was attack of the on's. We had to cut a lot of them due to that.

If me and my boy get married, we'll have this problem too. I'm a little upset thinking about ditching some of my favorites: Corinne, Benjamin, etc. To make matters worse, his last name is hard to spell and pronounce.

Leonce is my grandpa's name and because of that, I love it, (I'd use the nn Leo) but our last name is also very French and also ends in a "ce."

I also love Alice but it's lost out twice now for a girls name because of the "ce" ending in our last name and also because I just can't get over the fact that it has the word "lice" in it. :oP

Seamus *points at my post right above this one*

I love it but we have a very irish last name. my husband and I (and thus, our kids) are each only 1/4 irish so it's way overkill to put Seamus with our last name. it's the reason we WERE able to pull off Dietrich. very German, for a kid that's only like 1/4, give or take, but paired with our irish last name it kinda gets neutralized a bit.

Dietrich is a really cool name!

I really like Anna, but it kind of rhymes with my last name, so I will probably never use it. :( Also, I used to like Eric (still do but not as much as I once did), but my last name begins with a hard C and ends with a K so it seems like too much of that sound.

Benjamin ..I love the name Benjamin but our last name starts with a B and my hubby refuses to name any of our children with a B name because of it. He isn't a fan of aliteration!

I love almost all of your names listed. Lucy and Silas are two favourites and my son's name is Simon :)

I'm not really a fan of alliteration, but I did do it once, just because I liked the name and... couldn't think of anything else I liked as much. so we got over it and declared formally that no future children will have alliteration :)

Anything ending in -er or beginning/ending with R. Our last name is Raeder and that nixed my favorite name Ryder. Also, it kicked out Cooper, Parker, Walker, and my favorite family name Remington. For girls, Claire had to leave. Also, any name where the R is in the last syllable at the end of the name had to go, like Kara Raeder or Mara Raeder. Although, Marina Raeder is tolerable because the R is 2 syllables away from the end. Also, Rachel and Raven don't work because of the rae-rae repeat sound. Yeah, there are a lot of things that don't work with my husband's last name.

My maiden name is Pielecha, which rhymes with Rebecca so our ongoing joke was that one of us girls should have been named that, and it wound up being a nickname for me. So I used it (with the traditional Biblical spelling of Rebekah) for my daughter's middle name.

My married name is Sauter. This has ruined my ability to use Seth, which I adore. It's a lisping person's nightmare to say. I also had originally planned my whole life to have a son named Peter, after my grandfather, but I feel Peter Sauter just sound ridiculous. Other people have argued that point with me, but if it bugs me, that's all that matters. Other -er names have been ruled out, as well.

And I sadly felt I needed to take Alice off our girl list because I don't like how the "s" sound at the end of it runs into the "s" sound at the beginning of the last name. One friend pointed out that it sounded like Allosaur, as in the dinosaur and I had to unfortunately agree. Interestingly enough, Beatrice has a similar ending and is my top choice, but that doesn't bother me because it ends more sharply than Alice does, which I feel has a longer "s" sound at the end.

our last name is Doherty, so the names we tell people we're considering when we're pregnant (but would never use, really) include Dorothy, Dudley, Isidore, Isidora... but I wouldn't say we love these names or anything. we just joke about them :)

I love the idea of telling people fake names like that. Folks are so nosy about names and then have ridiculous opinions if you tell them ahead of time. We just keep our mouths shut, but I like the fake name idea even better.

I don't particularly LOVE Levi, but even potentially using it got thrown out the window as soon as I married a man with Levi as a last name. :)

I plan to change my last name if I ever get married, so I don't really think about how names sound with my last name.

I can speak from my own experience, though... before I was born, my mum wanted to name me Celeste. I'm glad she didn't, because I also have a really French last name. And I can't speak French. But if my name were Celeste Frenchlastname, I feel like people would assume that I must be fluent in French!

Any names that start with a "Sh" sound or end in "elle" are out--my last name is the same as that of a famous black comedian. It's a shame because I've always loved the name Belle, but giving a child rhyming names would be cruel!

My last name is kind of weird- there aren't many names that blend with it well. X( The names of my parents, siblings, etc. seem to fit, but that might be because they're familiar to me.

Names that begin with B.
The only one I really like anyway is Benjamin, so it's not too much of a loss. Also, he could have his father's last name...

The only one I can really think of is Rory because our last name starts with an R. But since I knew I couldn't use it, I allowed myself to like plenty of other boy's names more. So I don't so much mind it anymore.

Jack, Landon, Juliet.

Uh, anything with lots of V's! My future last name will be Morovic and my fiance wanted to use Victor. Victor Morovic? OMG No, Vic Vic!

I'm going to use Neva no matter what but sometimes I feel that it's too many v's. And anything that begins in M is out but I'm not too fond of M names, so that's good. But I LOVE V names and that sucks.

I was thinking about Neva Genevieve and then I thought about Neva Genevieve Morovic and that's just too many v's!

Edited 2010-06-29 22:19 (UTC)

Harry, Harriet, Harrison, and Henry.

My potential last name starts and ends with an 's', so the following are most likely out:
Stacey, Sophia, Stella, Simon, Sylvia, Alexis, Vincent, Lucy, Thomas.

I also have to be careful when it comes to initials, because I'd love to use the middle name Sylvia, after my grandmother whom I am close to. If I do that (ignoring the fact that it's a little 'S' overdrive) her name couldn't begin with an 'A' ie Alexa Sylvia S____

Potential last name will be Evans.
This rules out my husband's favourite name Ian.

However, it does open up the possibility of loads of cool Welsh names. :D

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