u/Double_Ostrich_13

My first child, we gave a name that holds great significance to us. It’s not common, only 60-70 babies per year in the US for the past few years have been given this name. With that being said, it’s incredibly easy to spell and pronounce, and no one ever bats an eye at it.

For our second, our top name has lived regularly in the top 200 hundred names. It hasn’t broken the top 100 but might in the future. It does have two spellings but only one common pronunciation (at least within the us). If you combine the two spellings, about 3000 babies were given a form of this name in 2025. I still don’t see any issues with this name.

Just curious if there is a view point or consensus on having kids with names of different popularity levels, especially to this extent. Or personal experiences from people with similar naming styles in their families.

They both will have one syllable unisex middle names. The names don’t rhyme or start with the same letter or anything themed. Neither would remotely be considered tragedeigh level despite one being less common.

Just looking for thoughts and opinions. Curious for a discussion. Thanks!

ETA name examples:

I’m going to choose 1990 because it’s close to the people I grew up with 😂. My uncommon first child would be close to a Baron, Turner, Alise, or Carlene in 1990. While my new name is closer to a Garrett, Clayton, Colleen, or Raven in 1990.

Boys names that end in long vowel sounds

I’ve discovered that a lot of the names I like end in long vowel sounds like

\-“oh” : Nico, Otto, Arlo

\-“ee” : Bowie, Coby, Archie

\-“eye” : Kai, Levi, Nikolai

\-“ay” : Dante, Rey

Does anyone have more names for my list of hopefuls? Btw not all of the names above are favorites or contenders, but I’ve just noticed I’m drawn to names with these sounds. I think they especially sound good when paired with our last name which is two syllables and ends with “-man”. Use Whitman or Hoffman as a placeholder.

I’ve discovered that a lot of the names I like end in long vowel sounds like

-“oh” : Nico, Otto, Arlo

-“ee” : Bowie, Coby, Archie

-“eye” : Kai, Levi, Nikolai

-“ay” : Dante, Rey

Does anyone have more names for my list of hopefuls? Btw not all of the names above are favorites or contenders, but I’ve just noticed I’m drawn to names with these sounds. I think they especially sound good when paired with our last name which is two syllables and ends with “-man”. Use Whitman or Hoffman as a placeholder.

I live in a national builder community (think Lennar, DR Horton, Meritage style) about 10 months old. Middle class neighborhood, nothing fancy. Southeastern US so high 200k to high 300k in the neighborhood for 2500-3500 sq ft.

I put out several quote requests for lawn care this week. Full regular maintenance packages, so weed control, fertilization, aeration, mowing, the whole thing. I also mentioned upfront that I have a large landscaping and hardscaping design project I want to quote out in the off season. So this wasn’t a small job, it was a long term relationship with significant additional work on the table.

One company came out and the quote was reasonable. But at the end of the conversation the salesperson told me “we usually don’t do neighborhoods like this because they’re rough.” I said “what do you mean by rough, like the landscaping and sod is done poorly?” He said “no I mean the neighborhood is rough, we usually only service higher end neighborhoods like [insert well known affluent neighborhood name here].”

For context, he did walk the property and point out areas where the sod had gaps and grading issues. I’m aware he also had concerns about the lawn condition itself. That’s not what the review is about. The review is about him confirming, when directly asked, that he meant the neighborhood and not the lawn.

I left a detailed one star review on Google, Facebook, and Yelp quoting that conversation verbatim.

The company responded publicly and reframed “rough” to mean the lawn condition, not the neighborhood, which directly contradicts what he said when I gave him the chance to clarify on the spot.

Here’s where it gets weird. My neighbor’s door cam caught someone from the company returning to my house 4.5 hours later to photograph the property. No notice, no contact. I called them, recorded the call, and they admitted they came back because I had “slandered them all over the internet” and wanted proof of the lawn condition.

I updated my review with all of this.

But here’s the thing I keep coming back to. Even if we pretend he meant the lawn and not the neighborhood, isn’t that an opportunity? Show me how you’d improve it. Upsell me on a renovation package. Prove your value. Don’t just refuse the job and insult the customer on the way out. And if the job is genuinely too difficult or not worth it for your crew, quote me high enough to make it worth it or high enough that I’ll decline. That’s just basic business sense.

Either way, calling a customer’s property rough to their face is unprofessional regardless of what he meant. AIO for the reviews?