For loop to anotate images with imagemagick from text file - bash

Question

I want to simplify my Christmas card making process. I have already built a frame with some text, and I wanted to personalize each card with the recipients name by using imagemagick and some bash power. But so far I'm failing bad :(
This is what I tried at first:
for i in names.txt;
do convert -font Akaya-Telivigala-Regular -fill black -stroke black -strokewidth 1\
-pointsize 190 -draw 'text 640,730 $i' chrisFrame.svg -resize 70%\
greetings_$i.jpg;
done
But it fails with convert-im6.q16: non-conforming drawing primitive definition i' # error/draw.c/RenderMVGContent/4300.`.
Seeing that imagemagick was trying to use $i as a primitive, I tried to enclose it in double quotes, as I would do if I was passing the names by hand:
for i in names.txt;
do convert -font Akaya-Telivigala-Regular -fill black -stroke black -strokewidth 1\
-pointsize 190 -draw 'text 640,730 "$i"' chrisFrame.svg -resize 70%\
greetings_$i.jpg;
done
Of course it generated a beautiful file named greetings_names.txt.jpg with $i instead of the name.
The content of the names.txt file is nothing else than
John,
Jane,
What am I doing wrong and how can I make it work?

Answer 1

With the gracious help of #GeeMack and after correcting an error in the call of the for loop, the solution is this:
for i in `cat names.txt`;
do convert -font Akaya-Telivigala-Regular -fill black -stroke black\
-strokewidth 1 -pointsize 190 -draw "text 640,730 '$i'"\
chrisFrame.svg -resize 70% greeting_$i.jpg;
done
Effectively, inverting the single and double quotes made the trick.
Please notice that it was necessary to change also the line
for i in names.txt
for
for i in `cat names.txt`
EDIT TO ADD:
After #Jetchisel comment regarding why one should not use for to read lines out of a file, the correct code will be:
while read i
do convert -font Akaya-Telivigala-Regular -fill black\
-stroke black -strokewidth 1 -pointsize 190
-draw "text 640,730 '$i'" chrisFrame.svg\
-resize 70% greetings_$i.jpg;
done < names.txt