Why hearing the name matters more than reading it
A name is spoken far more often than it's written — called across playgrounds, read from registers, announced in waiting rooms. Combinations that look elegant on a list can blur, rhyme or trip the tongue out loud. The voice test catches what the eye can't: names that run together, awkward stress patterns, and the "wait, how do you say that?" pause.
The register button matters more than it looks: hearing the name surname-first — "Walker, Theodore?" — is how your child will hear it hundreds of times a year through school. Some names change character entirely when flipped.
The real-world previews
The mockups above show the name in four places it will genuinely live: a class register, a first email address, a boarding pass (surname first, capitals — the format that swallows long names), and the top of a first CV. Parents consistently say the CV preview is the one that changes their mind — it's the name as a stranger will meet it in twenty-two years.