We’ve decided on [name_m]Asher[/name_m] for a first name, but we’re very undecided on middle name. Our surname is long: Mendelss0hn. I feel like single syllable names sound best with that combo, and we’ve narrowed it down to:
I really like [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_m]Clive[/name_m]. [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_u]Drew[/name_u] is nice as well, but a bit hard to pronounce maybe.
Another vote for [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_u]Blake[/name_u] or [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_u]Drew[/name_u], but there are all good choices. I do think a one syllable mn sounds best.
I actually think [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_u]Dylan[/name_u] sounds the best with your surname – I like the musical sort of rhythm it has as a full combination. Each name just naturally flows right into the next! Typically, I don’t suggest using a 2-syllable first name with a 2-syllable middle name, but in this case I really like it. Objectively, I like the name [name_m]Truman[/name_m] better, but that one doesn’t work so well because it sounds just like the first syllable of the surname.
The one-syllable names appeal to me less because you have to pause a bit between the middle name and last name – with the consonant-ending names [name_u]Blake[/name_u], [name_m]Clive[/name_m], [name_u]Dean[/name_u], [name_u]Jude[/name_u], and [name_m]Luke[/name_m]. The two that sound like a vowel at the end - [name_u]Drew[/name_u] and [name_u]Gray[/name_u] - these make the whole combo “flow” much more smoothly, but the negative is that they just get lost as connectors between the first name and surname.
I like [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_u]Drew[/name_u], [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_u]Jude[/name_u], and [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_m]Luke[/name_m] best! [name_u]Dylan[/name_u] and [name_m]Truman[/name_m] sound too rhyme-y to me with your last name, [name_f]IMO[/name_f].
You know it’s funny, almost immediately after posting about this list, my wife and I reviewed our family tree a bit. We saw one of her great-grandfathers was ‘[name_m]Edward[/name_m] [name_u]Leigh[/name_u]’, and since then, neither of us have been able to stop thinking about ‘[name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_u]Leigh[/name_u]’. It’s now on of the list. On the top, even.
However we’ve had a friend comment that it would be better spelled [name_u]Lee[/name_u], since [name_u]Leigh[/name_u] ‘is the girl version’. I’d really like to preserve the spelling if we go with it though. What do you guys think?
I don’t think the -eigh spelling on its own makes it too feminine at all. I think it works only in [name_u]Leigh[/name_u] itself- for example, if you did [name_f]Bradleigh[/name_f], I’d think girl, but seeing [name_u]Leigh[/name_u] on its own in the middle after such a masculine name, I wouldn’t think anything of it! If you want to use that spelling I’d say go for it for sure.
[name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_u]Leigh[/name_u] is my favorite. I personally like the [name_u]Lee[/name_u] spelling better for boys, but there is nothing wrong with the [name_u]Leigh[/name_u] spelling. I think because of the family significance [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_u]Leigh[/name_u] spelt this way is the best.