# Thinking of names for my next baby
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 6, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167 "2008-04-06T11:42:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/1 "2008-04-06T11:42:34Z")
Tiano. What do you think?
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### Author:  [@noctilucent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noctilucent)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/2 "2008-04-06T13:45:45Z")
[QUOTE=blinkingblinking]
Tiano. What do you think?
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Kind of hard to say. I’m not sold on it without context. Is it for a boy or a girl? Is it the name of a relative or close friend, or is it a name you’ve created? Are you looking to contrast a different ethnic-sounding first name to your last name?
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### Author:  [@noctilucent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noctilucent)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/3 "2008-04-06T13:47:13Z")
[QUOTE=noctilucent]
Kind of hard to say. I’m not sold on it without context. Is it for a boy or a girl? Is it the name of a relative or close friend, or is it a name you’ve created? Are you looking to contrast a different ethnic-sounding first name to your last name?
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Drat at not being able to edit - also, what’s the potential for the child getting grief for having a name that looks like piano?
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/4 "2008-04-06T14:30:53Z")
Are you sure you want to give them a name they’ll spend _the rest of their life_ explaining how to pronounce/spell? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/5 "2008-04-06T14:47:13Z")
[QUOTE=blinkingblinking]
Tiano. What do you think?
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I think this is probably one of the worst places to ask an opinion on this.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/6 "2008-04-06T15:50:25Z")
[QUOTE=blinkingblinking]
Tiano. What do you think?
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Honestly, it sounds like a new mid-size sedan from Nissan.
As **noctilucent** asked, is there any special context that it would fit into?
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### Author:  [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/7 "2008-04-06T16:00:28Z")
Is it said Tee-anno, rhyming with piano, or Tee-ahhno, rhyming with, er, the way pretentious people might say piano 😛
Maybe you should just go with Keanu. Or Tino. Isn’t Tino an Italian name?
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/8 "2008-04-06T16:25:57Z")
tino tino bambino bambino banana fanna fo feeno…
Just go with Chuck, it’s easier.
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### Author:  [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/9 "2008-04-06T20:50:00Z")
It’s not bad, as unusual names go. I’ve only seen “Tiano” as a last name, though. Does it have any special meaning for you, or do you just like the way it sounds?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/10 "2008-04-06T21:21:03Z")
It’s awful, don’t do it. There are plenty of perfectly nice real names to choose from, don’t just make up something because you like how it sounds.
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### Author:  [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/11 "2008-04-06T22:06:31Z")
[QUOTE=noctilucent]
Drat at not being able to edit - also, what’s the potential for the child getting grief for having a name that looks like piano?
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Looks like a piano?!
I took the last part of the name Christiano- like Christiano Ronaldo. The name does not rhyme with piano.
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### Author:  [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/12 "2008-04-06T22:07:39Z")
[QUOTE=fisha]
I think this is probably one of the worst places to ask an opinion on this.
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Where is a good place?
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### Author:  [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/13 "2008-04-06T22:19:43Z")
I spelt Cristiano Ronaldo’s name incorrectly.His name is actually Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/14 "2008-04-06T22:25:29Z")
You say “next baby.” What are the names of the other children? Names of siblings ought not sound strange together. Apple and Moses don’t go very well together except thematically. Ditto on Hazel, Phineas, and Henry as sibling names.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/15 "2008-04-06T22:31:27Z")
[QUOTE=blinkingblinking]
Looks like a piano?!
I took the last part of the name Christiano- like Christiano Ronaldo. The name does not rhyme with piano.
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What does it rhyme with?
And the other kids’ names? You don’t want a bunch of kids with 3-syllable names.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/16 "2008-04-06T22:32:47Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477]
You say “next baby.” What are the names of the other children? Names of siblings ought not sound strange together. Apple and Moses don’t go very well together except thematically. Ditto on Hazel, Phineas, and Henry as sibling names.
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I disagree on the Hazel, Phinneaus and Henry. All individual and old time-y.
Apple and Moses …yeeech. On both.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/17 "2008-04-06T22:34:00Z")
Boy– **Othar** or **Beef**
A Girl– **Photosynthesis** or **Morticia**
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### Author:  [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/18 "2008-04-06T22:37:58Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477]
You say “next baby.” What are the names of the other children? Names of siblings ought not sound strange together. Apple and Moses don’t go very well together except thematically. Ditto on Hazel, Phineas, and Henry as sibling names.
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His name is Darcy.
There was a thread about me naming him [Darcy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=412263)
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/19 "2008-04-06T22:47:45Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest]
I disagree on the Hazel, Phinneaus and Henry. All individual and old time-y.
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All old-fashioned, true, but vastly different degrees of oldness. Phinneaus is an Old Testament name, Hazel is derived from Old English, and Henry didn’t appear in English until the Norman conquest.
Nimrod and Edmund are both old-fashioned too, but they don’t go together either.
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### Author:  [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-names-for-my-next-baby/444167/20 "2008-04-06T23:05:14Z")
[QUOTE=blinkingblinking]
Where is a good place?
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Who knows, but most people here believe that non-traditional or oddly spelled names will set a kid up for a lifetime of heartache and frustration.
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