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Baby names you can type with one hand: Carter, Tessa, John, Poppy

computer keyboard

When you sign your first name, you use one hand. But when you type it, chances are you need to use both hands — even if your name is a short as Emma, Gus or Ty.

Have you ever wondered which names can be touch-typed on the standard QWERTY keyboard with one hand only? Me too, so I came up with some lists…

Left-handed baby names

  • Ace, Ada, Adar, Adeva, Aeta, Afra, Agra, Aqsa, Ara, Arda, Ardra, Artra, Asa, Asees, Astra, Astraea, Astrea, Atef, Ava, Awa, Aza, Azeeza, Azza
  • Babette, Barbara, Barrett, Baxter, Bess, Bette, Brad, Brett
  • Cade, Caesar, Cara, Carter, Casara, Case, Cass, Castara, Cedar, Ceres, Cesar, Cresta
  • Dara, Dart, Dasza, Dave, Dawes, Dax, Deatra, Debra, Dee, Dessa, Devara, Dexter, Drew
  • Ece, Ed, Edgar, Edward, Eevee, Efe, Egas, Erva, Esta, Estes, Etta, Eva, Evart, Eve, Everard, Everett, Evette, Ewart, Eze, Ezra
  • Faraz, Fedde, Fraser, Frazer, Freeda, Fred, Fredda
  • Gage, Garret, Garrett, Gerard, Grace, Greg, Greta, Grete, Gretta
  • Rafer, Rasa, Rava, Rebeca, Rebecca, Reece, Reed, Reese, Retta, Reva, Rever, Rewa, Rex
  • Sabra, Sada, Sadaf, Sade, Safaa, Sagar, Sage, Sara, Saras, Sardar, Sava, Savva, Sea, Stassa, Steve, Stewart, Svea, Sverre, Sveva
  • Tad, Tage, Taggart, Tara, Tate, Ted, Tera, Teresa, Terrea, Tess, Tessa, Tex, Trace, Tracee, Trava
  • Vada, Varda, Varvara, Vera, Verree, Vesta, Vester
  • Wade, Wafa, Ward, Warre, Wes
  • Xerra, Xerxes
  • Zada, Zara, Zed, Zedd, Zera

How funny is it that Dexter, which comes directly from the Latin word for “right,” is typed with the left hand only?

Right-handed baby names

  • Hoku, Holli, Holly
  • Io, Ioli
  • Jill, Ji-Min, Jim, Jimi, Jimmy, Jin, Jo, John, Johnny, Jon, Joni, Joy, Juho, Juli, Julio, Jun, Juni, Juno
  • Kiki, Kiko, Kilik, Kim, Kimi, Kimiko, Kimmy, Kimo, Kin, Kip, Kipp, Kippy, Kiyoko, Kiyomi, Kojo, Kollin, Kumiko, Kuno, Kuuipo, Kyou
  • Lili, Lilikoi, Lilio, Lilly, Lilou, Lily, Lin, Lino, Loki, Loni, Lonny, Lou, Lulu, Lumi, Lyn, Lynn
  • Miki, Mikki, Mikko, Milly, Milo, Mimi, Min, Minh, Minokimin, Miyu, Molly, Momoko
  • Nik, Nikhil, Niki, Nikki, Niko, Nikol, Nikon, Nikunj, Niilo, Ninon, Nipin, Nolon, Nuno
  • Olli, Olujimi, Om, Onno
  • Phil, Philip, Phillip, Philo, Pio, Pliny, Plum, Pol, Polly, Pono, Poppy
  • Umiko, Ummul, Umu, Union
  • Yoko, Yuko, Yumi, Yumiko

I realize that QWERTY “handedness” is not a major baby-naming factor for most people, but I do think it would be cute to pair a one-handed name with another one-handed name — maybe a surname (Teresa Garza, Phillip Hill) or a twin name (Edward & John, Grace & Lily, Zara & Milo). What do you think?

Image: Adapted from Apple Macintosh Plus Extended Keyboard by MagicTom13 under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Baby’s name suffixed “2.0,” like a software release

"Version 2.0" of a piece of software
Example of “Version 2.0”

Michigan couple Jamie and Jon Blake Cusack welcomed a baby boy on January 27, 2004. The baby’s name? Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.

The baby’s father, a “self-confessed engineering geek,” said it took him months to persuade his wife to use 2.0 — which, in software versioning, denotes the second version of a piece of computer software — instead of a traditional suffix (like Jr. or II).

Mr. Cusack told the Holland Sentinel newspaper he got the idea from a film called The Legend of 1900, in which an abandoned baby is given the name 1900 to celebrate the year of its birth.

“I thought that if they can do it, why can’t we?” he told the paper.

Jon also noted that, if his son one day has a child, “he could name it 3.0.”

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Image: Adapted from Go-64! Version 2.0 loading screen by The Maddestman under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Interesting fact about Icelandic phone books

Icelandic phone book (sorted by first name as opposed to last name)
Icelandic phone book (sorted by first name!)

Did you know that the Icelandic phone book is arranged alphabetically by first name?

It’s true.

Why?

Because in Iceland, home to only about 320,000 people, most surnames are actually patronyms consisting of one’s father’s name plus either “son” or “dóttir” (depending on one’s gender). They aren’t passed from one generation to the next.

“Jón Einarsson’s offspring, for example, might be Ólafur Jónsson and Sigríður Jónsdóttir.”

If I’d been born in Iceland, my last name would’ve been something along the lines of Jósefsdóttir, for “Joseph’s daughter.” My father’s last name, in contrast, would have been Jónsson, as my paternal grandfather’s name was John.

How about you — what would your patronymic surname be?

Source: Henley, Jon. “Icelandic girls can’t be called Harriet, government tells family.” Guardian 26 Jun. 2014.

Image: Adapted from Iceland phonebook is sorted on first names by Selmer van Alten under CC BY 2.0.