{"id":14573,"date":"2020-03-09T21:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14573"},"modified":"2020-03-10T06:58:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T10:58:16","slug":"baby-naming-issue-one-syllable-names-with-one-syllable-surnames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/03\/09\/baby-naming-issue-one-syllable-names-with-one-syllable-surnames\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: One-Syllable First Names with One-Syllable Surnames"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dearest Swistle,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not currently expecting (hopefully soon!) but I&#8217;d love to get your input on a conundrum I have. I have a single syllable last name, but almost all of my favorite baby names are also single syllable, such as Gwen, Faye, Tess, Wren, Lynn, June, Joan, or Reese for girls and Cole, Joel, Wade, Roy, Neil, or Rhys for boys. I know single syllable names *can* work fine together but it definitely doesn&#8217;t always work and I&#8217;m wondering if you have any insight into what makes short names sound good together or not. (For reference, my surname sounds like Hung-with-a-Y, but I&#8217;d also be interested in a more general discussion).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<br \/>\n&#8211; Emily<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For me, the only thing that works is trying each one on a case-by-case basis. Sometimes I prime the pump by saying a few 1\/1 names I know work: James Dean and Anne Rice and Brad Pitt and so on.<\/p>\n<p>But this made me wonder if others have found any rules of thumb to figure out which names work and which don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Swistle, I&#8217;m not currently expecting (hopefully soon!) but I&#8217;d love to get your input on a conundrum I have. I have a single syllable last name, but almost all of my favorite baby names are also single syllable, such as Gwen, Faye, Tess, Wren, Lynn, June, Joan, or Reese for girls and Cole, Joel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3N3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14575,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions\/14575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}