Experts have found that some words and, by extension, names, sound better than others
, showing that parents try to avoid choosing first names that would clash with their family names.
He said: “If your family name starts with ‘S’, such as Scott, Smith, Saunders, or Sullivan, it may be advisable not to have a first name that ends in ‘s’, such as Marcus, Charles, or Nicolas – because the two ‘s’ sounds will blend into each other. Shih’s research has used data from Facebook account names to show that there is indeed a small tendency for parents to prefer names without ‘s’ when their last name starts with ‘s’.
In the UK, In the UK, Zayn was voted the most beautiful sounding boy's name.Zayn was voted the most beautiful sounding boy’s name. Dr Winter continues: “In another recent paper, Berger and colleagues found a surprising result using more than 100 years of first-names data. They found that when there are major hurricanes in the US, the next generation of babies will be more likely to feature sounds that occur in the name of the hurricane, such as Katie after Hurricane Katrina.
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