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Names without interruption... now with drop-letters!
by erb816
10/19/2024, 4:49 PM
A few days ago, I made a post (https://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/5547724) with a collection of English names, with popular to somewhat common use, that could be written with little to no interruption in cursive. I omitted drop-letters, and anything that needed to be dotted or crossed, from that list.In one of the replies, however, someone stated they knew somebody why had chosen the "Lynsey" spelling for their daughter instead of the more traditional way (Lindsay or Lindsey) because they thought it made a better signature. When I'd included drop-letters ("y" among them) in my omissions, that had been because I was considering writing the name in lines of text, where it could complicate the text below. (So basically, I was trying to gather "considerate names" in one place, lol.) I hadn't been thinking about signatures--and, honestly, drop-letters make for dramatic signatures!So, here is a collection expanding on the previous... except this one has drop-letters! (Except lowercase "j," because that needs to be dotted). And while "z" isn't a drop-letter in standard typeface, it is in cursive:
Below is the masculine list:Alfred
Algernon
Alfonso / Alfonzo / Alphonso / Alphonzo
Alonzo
Amery / Amory
Amyas
Avery
Barnaby
Barry
Baylor
Beauregard
Beauford
Bradford
Bradley
Brady / Brody
Brayden
Bryan
Bryce
Buford
Byron
Carlyle
Clyde
Colby
Cody
Conway
Corey
Cyrus
Darryl / Daryl
Delroy
Denzel
Douglas
Dudley
Dwayne
Dylan
Edgar
Ellery
Ely
Emery / Emory
Eugene
Ezra
Gary
Geoffrey / Jeffrey
George
Gerry / Jerry
Godfrey
Grady
Gray / Grey
Grayson / Greyson
Gregory
Guy
Hadley
Harry
Harvey
Hayden / Haydn
Hedley
Henry
Hugh
Hugo
Humphrey
Hyram
Jack
Jackson
Jacob
Jaden / Jayden
James
Jared
Jason
Jasper
Jefferson
Jeremy
Jerome
Jesse
Joel
John
Jonah
Joseph
Joshua
Judd
Jude
Kyle
Larry
Leopold
Leroy
Lloyd
Logan
Lyall / Lyle
Lyndon
Maynard
Mervyn
Percy
Perry
Ralph
Ramsay / Ramsey
Randolf / Randolph
Raphael
Raymond
Reynold
Rhys
Rodney
Roger
Rolf
Rory
Roy / Royce
Rudolf / Rudolph
Rudy / Rudyard
Rufus
Rylan / Ryland
Sanford
Sawyer
Seymour
Spencer
Sylvan
Ulysses
Vaughan / Vaughn
Wayland / Waylon
Wayne
Wolfgang
Wolfram
Wesley
Zachary
Zane / ZayneEdit--forgot that linking to a picture just posts the picture in the body! Fixed the text format around it.***Please rate my personal name lists:www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381
www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381/117507
www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381/109399
www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381/132018

This message was edited 10/19/2024, 5:50 PM

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- erb816   +2
10/19/2024, 4:53 PM
Unisex listHere is the unisex/non-gendered list:Aubrey
Carey / Cary / Kerry
Casey
Cyan
Darby
Darcy
Harley
Jordan
Kelly / Kelley
Layne
Lynn
Marley
Morgan
Murphy
Oakley
Page
Presley
Reagan
Remy
Ryan (it's listed as solely masculine on here, but it genuinely has enough feminine use in the real world to be listed as unisex at this point)
Sage
Shelby
Skylar / Skyler / Schuyler
Sparrow
- EsmeLily   +1
10/19/2024, 6:40 PM
I don't think of signatures so much as how a name looks on the page (eg. typed). I call letters like y, g, p etc... "hanging letters". I prefer a name combo (first, middle & last) to have one hanging letter because I think it looks better written out.William Henry Jones
VS.
William Harris JonesThe first combo looks better to me than the second one.However, if there are too many hanging letters, the combo looks cluttered (example below).Gregory Sawyer Hemingway For me, a name combo not only has to sound good (flow well together) but also look good as well.

This message was edited 10/19/2024, 6:41 PM

- erb816
10/19/2024, 6:43 PM
You could do a whole separate list on "flow" in names regarding typeface!