Choosing my Chinese name.

I've been studying Chinese for a while, and figured I should choose a Chinese name.

There is no equivalent of my surname Eagan (Reagan without the Republican), so I took the last sound gan and got 趕 (gǎn), meaning to pursue, expel.

My given name John has the Chinese 約翰, but I don't like the pronunciation of that 翰. I also don't like the first character and the pronunciation of my nickname Jack 傑克.

So I created three possibilities.

1. 假剋 (jiǎkè) with the meaning of subduing evil.
2. 天喣 (tiānxù) with the meaning of heaven is gracious, created using the original meaning of John, but with heaven instead of god.
3. 約剋 (yuēkè) taking the first character of 約翰 which I like and a variety of 克 which I find more pleasing to the eye.

This leaves me with 趕假剋, 趕天喣 or 趕約剋. Are any of these good enough Chinese names that I won't get laughed at, or should I go back to the drawing board?

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