Baby Name Combinations

I have a bit of an obsession with names. And while I am never having kids, I have actually lurked/posted on baby name boards for ages. I used some for characters in writing stories but also just enjoy names and have super strong visual imagery on most names.

I have to admit (kind of a disclaimer) that my tastes run pretty different from yours.

The names I love most (Seth, Jill, Inger, Micah, Claudia, Berit, Julian, Gwendolyn, Todd, Meredith) are probably SUPER boring and/or weird to you when compared to some of the names you have chosen. So please take my opinions with a grain of salt!!! We all have our own likes and dislikes.

GIRLS
Hartlee Jayde - porn star. Awful. No offense please.
Ashtyn Claire - to me Ashtyn is kind of boring and 90s but I like Claire a lot
Mackenzie Jayde - not bad, but it kinds of screams "I have a teen mom"
Mackenzie Sophia - not crazy about the combination but I think Sophia helps it soooo much (over Jayde above)
Sadie Claire - I like this.
Reagan Joy - to me Reagan always brings to mind someone born in the early 90s, so that could be a good thing actually...and with Joy it seems more classic and fresh
Bailey Ashtyn - boring but fine. Not crazy about Ashtyn spelling.
Ashtyn Bailey - I think Bailey Ashtyn is better.
Aubrey Sophia - this is the sort of name most of my friends (Midwestern women in their mid 30s) are choosing currently. I don't love it, but it's fine.
Hailey Sophia - I like both names but I am not quite so crazy about the combination.
Hailey Jayde - eh, definitely not into the "Jayde" part. Hailey's fine though.

BOYS
Jacob Noah - I feel like these are 2 fantastic names that don't really "go together" all that well. I especially like Noah.
Mason Parker - a little on the vanilla side, but definitely not bad at all. For me there's a little negative association because both are the names of funeral homes in my city.
Grayson Connor - I like the spelling Greyson more for some reason, but this is my favorite of your boy names.
Ryan Parker - I like this combination, although it happens to be the first & last name combo of a friend of mine who passed away a few years ago...weird.

I think I share your taste in boy names WAY more than girls' names.

I have never really given first and middle name combinations much thought, possibly because it doesn't tend to be as important when writing about a character and because I never wanted to have kids. Although, when I was very young (teens) and not sure if I'd ever want kids, I assumed I would use my maiden name as the middle name for my potential child, male or female. I don't want to share that actual name here obviously but it's kind of a generic sounding nice name, think Bentley, Reilly, Spencer type of name...like a street name ;-)

I dont like Mackenzie for a girl... I think its a great boys name though (personal opinion and all lol)
If my hubs had agreed I really liked Sophia Claire for a girl (and ended up with an Abigail Claire instead) Or Isabelle Rose
And for a boy Samuel Levi or Scott Alexander (managed to get Levi as a 2nd name for one of my boys)

And have to agree on the porn star thing for Hartlee Jade lol

Although, when I was very young (teens) and not sure if I'd ever want kids, I assumed I would use my maiden name as the middle name for my potential child, male or female.

My Sister used her maiden name as the middle name of her kid... She really wanted Danger though lol

Although, when I was very young (teens) and not sure if I'd ever want kids, I assumed I would use my maiden name as the middle name for my potential child, male or female.

My Sister used her maiden name as the middle name of her kid... She really wanted Danger though lol

Cool! I went to school with guys who had the middle names of Danger, Thunder (2), and Canada.

I think a lot of the combos are cute. All throughout high school, I said I would name my little girl Reagan McKenzie. My first 3 pregnancies were boys. Naming boys isn't nearly as much fun as finding names for girls. I finally got my girl, though, and by then, I was over the name. Lol!

Ilaria is my favorite name for a girl. She was the beautiful young wife of a nobleman in Lucca, an Italian city north of Pisa. She died young and her husband was so devestated that he had a perfect marble likeness of her made for her tomb. It is in white Carra marble and has IIaria stretched out as if sleeping. Her lips have been almost worn away from being kissed through the centuries.

I love Greyson (the only way to spell it).

IMO, cutesy spelling of names, like Jayde or Ashtyn, get old real quick.

Personally I like John Connor or Alice.

John Connor? You have to earn that name:

As pretty as some of these names are, I prefer simpler names. I plan on naming my first girl Iris.

Imagine your child as an adult with a career. Most of the names are really cutesy but would be ridiculous for an adult. They aren't babies forever.

I have 2 girls, Anneliese and Lydia and 2 boys Caleb and Noah.

My rule for names is, which sentence does the name complete better?

"May I please introduce the newest member of the Supreme Court, ______."

"May I please introduce the newest member of our Poledancing Passion Troupe, _____."

To me, names like Bailey Ashtyn or Mason Parker don't belong in the first sentence.

Hey, if Mason wants to pole dance, who am I to tell him not to?

You are my sun, moon, and stars.

Now I want to be named Blanket.

The Mackenzie hate is strong in this thread