Surname Incompatibility

I like to keep a list of the more, um, "thought-provoking" names that I run across on BabyNames.com, a site whose main audience is expecting parents. In my opinion, it's okay to both make fun of these names and post them on this blog, since they were gathered from a public internet site. I am constantly amazed at the disregard parents show for their future child's last name. Below are two short lists of names that are inappropriate based on their interaction with the child's last name.

Phonological
Brooke Burke
Isabelle Bell
Anabell Bell
Maya Myers
Emma Grace Embry
Zane Adams Swain
Lain Adams Swain
Dane Mitchell Swain

I think the last four suggest an obvious reason for the parents' oversight--they're so focused on the first name-middle name combination that they overlook the last name. Which, honestly, how often does someone use their middle name? Only when during scoldings and graduations. So while "Emma Grace" sounds lovely, she'll rarely say her name that way. Most of the time, she'll be Emma Embry, which sounds a comic book character.

Then there are names which sound fine, but are inappropriate based on thematic considerations. These are a little bit funnier.

Thematic
Hunter Butcher
Harley Ryder
Amber Jade Fields ("amber waves of grain," anyone?)
Jack Russell (an excitable dog)
Honey Newcombe
Charlotte Weber
Benson Hall (probably okay, just sounds like a dormitory building to me)
London Rosalia Towne
Isaac Cox
Asa Wipperman
Colt, Remington, and Wesson Porter (three brothers, already born and named, unfortunately)

While I'm sniggering at these goofy parents, I should mention that with the exception of the gun-rack brothers, these are only proposed names. We can hope that the parents end up settling on something else.