Message: "Names written with (little to) no interruption"

Names written with (little to) no interruption

by erb816

10/16/2024, 12:30 PM

For this list, I focused on names commonly used in English, since that's what I'm most familiar with. Most of the names on this list are traditional, if not classic--there are some more "modern" names, but the ones included get a fair amount of use, so their familiar and not "out there."

Anyway, when I say "written with (little to) no interruption," I'm referring to disruption of the flow of the pen in Latin alphabet cursive. So no dotting of Is or crossing of Ts here--I almost didn't include capital-I names, either, since writing those letters goes "backward"; however, it's a quick movement and the flow of the pen is interrupted less than going back and dotting or crossing something. In addition, I omitted letters that have a drop-down part that would extend below the line, which potentially impacts the next line of text (in terms of thinking about spacing). Altogether, I omitted...

* Names starting with: F, J, T, X, Y, and Z
* Names containing elsewhere in the body: f, g, i, j, p, q, t, x, y, and z

Without further ado, here are some Anglophone names that can be written (or signed) with little to no interruption. In this post, I'll write the masculine list:

Aaron
Abel
Abner
Abraham / Abram
Adam
Alan / Allan / Allen
Alden
Aldous
Alonso
Ambrose
Amos
Andrew
Ansel / Anselm
Archer
Arlo
Arno
Arnold
Asher
Baron / Barron
Benson
Bernard
Bevan
Boone
Bowen
Braden
Brandon
Brennan
Brendan
Brock
Bronson
Bruce
Cade
Caden
Caleb
Callan
Callum / Calum
Cameron
Carl / Karl
Carroll
Carson
Carver
Cavan
Chad
Chance
Chandler
Charles
Chase
Clarence
Clark / Clarke
Claud / Claude
Cole
Coleman
Colson
Conan
Connor / Conor
Conrad
Cordell
Cornell
Cosmo
Cullen
Dacre
Dale
Dallas
Damon
Dane
Darell / Darrell
Daren / Darren
Dawson
Dean
Declan
Derek
Desmond
Donald
Donovan
Doran
Drake
Duane
Duncan
Earl / Earle
Edmond / Edmund
Edward
Elwood
Emmanuel / Immanuel
Errol
Evan
Everard
Ewan
Galen
Garland
Gerald
Gerard
Gervase
Glen / Glenn
Gordon
Graeme / Graham / Grahame
Grover
Hallam
Hank
Harlan / Harland
Harmon
Harold
Herman
Holden
Homer
Horace
Howard
Hudson
Ian
Ira
Isaac / Isaak
Isadore
Ivan
Ivo
Ivor
Kane
Kean / Keane
Kellan / Kellen
Lachlan
Lamar
Lance
Laurence / Lawrence
Leander
Leland
Lennon
Leo / Leon / Leonard / Leonardo
Lorne
Lucas / Luke
Mack
Malcolm
Marcus
Mark
Marlon
Marshall
Mason
Monroe / Munro
Moses
Nash
Neal
Nelson
Noah
Noel
Nolan
Norman
Norwood
Omar
Orlando
Ormond / Ormonde
Orson
Osborn / Osborne / Osbourne
Oscar
Osmond
Oswald
Owen
Pace
Palmer
Paul
Pearce
Raeburn
Rand
Randall
Reed
Reese
Reuben / Ruben
Roland / Rowland
Roman
Ronald
Ronan
Roscoe / Ross
Roswell
Rune
Russell
Samson
Samuel
Sean / Shaun / Shawn
Shane
Shaw
Sheldon
Sherman
Sherwood
Solomon
Soren
Vance
Vernon
Wade
Waldo
Walker
Wallace
Warren
Wendell
Woodrow

... But is this something that anyone else has thought about, in terms of what's in a name?

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This message was edited 10/19/2024, 7:35 PM

Replies

- Rainya +1

10/16/2024, 4:45 PM

I actually saw on Reddit today that someone was named Lynsey instead of Lindsey because it would be a better signature.

- erb816

10/16/2024, 6:33 PM

I suppose drop-letters like Y would afford flourishes in a signature, that's true. And I might be in the minority still writing in cursive in a notebook (which is why I thought about drop-letters impeding future text). :-P

- New_Chloë (New_Chloe)

10/16/2024, 3:53 PM

Interesting list. One of the reasons I fell in love with Douglas was because of how beautifully it is written out!

In one of my student jobs, I had to make a historical record of people that had joined a certain organization, and there were a LOT of people of Scottish descent in the lists. I had to write out the names "Alexander" and "Douglas" (among others) about five hundred times, and I grew to hate Alexander and love Douglas! Douglas was so smooth and round, it was very satisfying.

Other than that, though, I don't think too much about the ease of writing a name.

- Manipura (glaucous)

10/16/2024, 2:39 PM

Interesting category. No, I haven't thought of it, beyond using the interruptions in my own name as opportunities to stylize, when I was learning to write.