Babyname rules
For as long as I can remember, J and I have been exchanging ideas about names. We call them babynames, but since there's no baby in the current picture they're really just names we like. We have 6 lists: B boys, J boys, B girls, J girls, cats, dogs. We used to delete the names no longer liked, but recently we've been keeping them all for posterity, because it could be really fun someday to show our kid named, I don't know, John, that he could have been named Barack. (Yes, Barack is on the list, but John is an impossibility for several reasons, which will become clear in a moment.) So instead we keep track by just listing our current favourites in each column. That way we're ready, like, in case Julia spontaneously births a child.
The best part of the list is the rules, and those I'm prepared to share because I'm so bloody proud of them. See, when one of us comes up with a name that the other doesn't like so much that it is vetoed, there's usually a reason. (Although if the original thinker feels strongly they can override the veto because, after all, it's just a babyname, not a baby's name.) I'm going to list the rules below, but first a disclaimer: If your name is disqualified by a rule, it doesn't mean I don't like you or your name,or that I will not name my child after you. It just means if I were your parents, and you were born in 2008, you would not be called what you are called now. Luckily, everyone's rules are not the same or there would be no Johns in this world.
So without further ado, revealed for the first time, my babyname rules:
* No names of people we don't like
* No names that end in Y
* No names from the Bible
* No monosyllabic names
* No names of family members
* No last names as first names
* No names with the letter Z
* No names from this list during the last 3 years.
* No really ethnic names (exception: dogs and cats names must be ethnic)
Does anyone else do this?
The best part of the list is the rules, and those I'm prepared to share because I'm so bloody proud of them. See, when one of us comes up with a name that the other doesn't like so much that it is vetoed, there's usually a reason. (Although if the original thinker feels strongly they can override the veto because, after all, it's just a babyname, not a baby's name.) I'm going to list the rules below, but first a disclaimer: If your name is disqualified by a rule, it doesn't mean I don't like you or your name,or that I will not name my child after you. It just means if I were your parents, and you were born in 2008, you would not be called what you are called now. Luckily, everyone's rules are not the same or there would be no Johns in this world.
So without further ado, revealed for the first time, my babyname rules:
* No names of people we don't like
* No names that end in Y
* No names from the Bible
* No monosyllabic names
* No names of family members
* No last names as first names
* No names with the letter Z
* No names from this list during the last 3 years.
* No really ethnic names (exception: dogs and cats names must be ethnic)
Does anyone else do this?