The Name Game

Why is choosing a baby name so difficult?  I know there are some people out there who know the name of their baby right away--and four or five months into the pregnancy already have all the bedding monogrammed and everthing.  Ami and I find it a little more difficult and will most likely not have a name for our little baby boy until he is born and we have a chance to see his cute little face.  In the meantime we have established some ground rules for the names and we have had many suggestions from our friends. 

Rule # 1:  The name must be more than one syllabal.  Since we have a one syllabal last name, we don't like the way two short names sound together, i.e. Zach Kron,  Joe Kron, Bob Kron, Zane Kron, Tom Kron, Jack Kron

Rule #2:  The name cannot be shortened into a nickname that only has one syllabal.  It's not that we are against nicknames or anything--we really like Zachary, but don't like the way Zach Kron sounds and more than likely at some point the name will get shortened.

Rule #3:  The name cannot end with the letter N.  We don't like the way the 2 N's sound at the end of a first name and then end of our last name.  This eliminates all the Brandons, Aidens, Haydens out there. 

Those are the main rules--we have some others such as we don't like the way the long O sounds with our last name, something like Joseph Kron is out.  We also don't want an odd spelling or really unique bizarre name.  We want it to be easily pronounced and spelled correctly. 

So here is what has been suggested by our friends so far that fit within our "Rules" and a few that don't.

Trevor
Jared
Garrett
Sawyer
Hawthorne
Elliot
Beckett
Harper
Finnegan
Cabot
Caleb
Holden
Carter
Reddin
Marcus
Collin
Raymond
Blake
Byron
Kipling
Fenton
Marlowe
Miles
Heathcliff
Linton
Lockwood
Atticus

Our friend Marissa even had her high school students suggest names for us.  They came up with:

Bennett
Davis
Grady
Quincy
Tanner
Kyler
Moses
Maddox
Preston
Wyatt
Eli
Elijah
Jacquizz
Hunter
Carlos
Maurice
Spencer
Xavier
Liam
Ali
Jeremy
Lebron
Levi
Waldo
Alfonso
Israel
Emmett
Cory
Tucker
Alister
Alex
Brady
Brody
Parker
Andrew
Patrick
Felix
Isaiah
Mitchel
Joey

Hmmm.....I wonder what we will choose.