Christie writes:<\/p>\n
Dear Swistle,
\nI am in desperate need of your help. My third child is due at the end of September. We are not finding out the gender and I think that is part of the naming issue. Sibling names are Lance Martin and Genevieve Karina. Last name is Welch, pronounced like the grape juice.<\/p>\nOur naming rules:
\n1. I don’t want anything in the top 100. I know you don’t see this as an issue but my first name is Christie and I hated going by Christie P during elementary school.
\n2. I don’t like “made up” names. I prefer not as popular names but ones that people will know how to pronounce and have more of a classic sound.
\n3. I’m indifferent on nicknames. We call Lance and Genevieve by their full names.<\/p>\nFor middle names we use family names. If the baby is a boy it will be Bradford or Christopher. If the baby is a girl I would like to use some variation of Anne. My current favorite is Analee or Annelise. For several reasons we will not use any of these as a first name.<\/p>\n
Here is our list of possibilities but I don’t love any of them and some break our rules.
\nGirl-Scarlett, Kinley, Bianca, Colette, Lydia
\nBoy-Griffin, Donovan, Maxwell, Preston, Harrison<\/p>\nI am hoping you can give me feedback on these as well as new options. I’m finding it difficult to find a name that fits with the other two. I want to hear a name and just love it like I did with the other two but so far I have exhausted the internet and don’t love anything!<\/p>\n
Thank you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Bianca stands out to me from your girl-name list. Unusual, lovely, and a great sister name with Genevieve. My inclination would be to stop right there. Kinley feels too modern\/surnamey with Genevieve; Scarlett too feels like a very different style than the other names, and I don’t like the way it runs together with the surname to make a twelch sound. A few more possibilities to consider:<\/p>\n
Cecily Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Cecily
\nClarissa Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Clarissa
\nClaudia Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Claudia
\nCordelia Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Cordelia
\nElena Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Elena
\nEliza Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Eliza
\nEloise Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Eloise
\nFrancesca Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Francesca
\nEmmeline Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Emmeline
\nPhilippa Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Philippa
\nSabrina Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Sabrina
\nSimone Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Simone<\/p>\nFor her middle name, I would steer you away from Analee: those first four letters followed by the -ly sound seem like a poor combination. Doubling the N or using the double name Anna Lee would help considerably, though I’d prefer to avoid the whole issue and use a different version of Anne.<\/p>\n
On your boy-name list, I’d cross off Maxwell for the echoed “well” sound with the surname. Harrison is my favorite, but it feels quite long as a brother name for Lance. I think I would go for something similar but a little shorter, such as Harris or Davis—though I’m not crazy about the way a soft -s at the end of the first name leads to a swelchy sound with the surname. Here are some more possibilities to consider:<\/p>\n
Dane Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Dane
\nDean Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Dean
\nEdmund Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Edmund
\nEmmett Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Emmett
\nEverett Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Everett
\nHugo Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Hugo
\nKeane Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Keane
\nKeaton Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Keaton
\nMilo Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Milo
\nReid Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Reid
\nRuben Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Ruben
\nSimon Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Simon
\nTobin Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Tobin
\nTurner Welch; Lance, Genevieve, and Turner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christie writes: Dear Swistle, I am in desperate need of your help. My third child is due at the end of September. We are not finding out the gender and I think that is part of the naming issue. Sibling names are Lance Martin and Genevieve Karina. Last name is Welch, pronounced like the grape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2C2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10046"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10051,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}