My husband and I have very different tastes when it comes to names, which is making it hard to find something that we both like! My husband likes names that are very unusual/unique. On the other hand, my main criteria is that I want the name to be easily recognizable as a name and something people where we live (U.S.) will know how to pronounce (and ideally how to spell!) People already get confused about how to spell/pronounce my husband's last name, and I don't really want to saddle our kid with that for first name as well. We do agree that we want something that is at least two syllables. Last name is one syllable.
In considering random lists of names, the closest we have come to something we both like okay - but neither of us loves - is Quentin. DH thought it was somewhat unique because of the Q and interesting b/c of Quentin Tarantino. I like it because it's a name and not hard to pronounce 
Other ideas???
Our two boys have uncommon but familiar names (one is listed above) and for some reason people are always assuming they have unique spellings and throwing vowels in where they don't belong or subbing a "z" for an "s" 🙄 Anyways, all that to say--I was also worried about an easy to spell name, but after the experience with our first two boys we are throwing that stipulation out the window for DS3. We're having a hard enough time agreeing on a third boy name anyways haha
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