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HelpRe: Is any of these combos usable?
in reply to a message by Lulucky
I don't really think any of these are especially valid concerns unless you yourself, as a baby-namer, are bothered by them. Tastes vary of course, but you will never find a combo that pleases everyone's ear.
I will say I don't like the name Grant for a first name. It's too much like a command: Grant Christopher a new trial on the basis of ineffective counsel? Grant Nicholas an extension for handing in his homework because he was sick? But even that isn't important to many people, and there's plenty of people named with "command" names like Chase or Grant.
Christopher and Joshua and Nicholas aren't as hugely popular as they once were, but they are still extremely popular, and they don't really sound like "dad names" or dated in the way that say, Ronald or Steven might. They are all so common in such a wide age range that that issue of datedness is pretty much meaningless. And James has always and always will be very popular. It will never date. James Grant sounds fine, and that's the name I'd pick if I had to use Grant as a mn.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
I will say I don't like the name Grant for a first name. It's too much like a command: Grant Christopher a new trial on the basis of ineffective counsel? Grant Nicholas an extension for handing in his homework because he was sick? But even that isn't important to many people, and there's plenty of people named with "command" names like Chase or Grant.
Christopher and Joshua and Nicholas aren't as hugely popular as they once were, but they are still extremely popular, and they don't really sound like "dad names" or dated in the way that say, Ronald or Steven might. They are all so common in such a wide age range that that issue of datedness is pretty much meaningless. And James has always and always will be very popular. It will never date. James Grant sounds fine, and that's the name I'd pick if I had to use Grant as a mn.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
