{"id":10064,"date":"2014-07-04T06:13:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T10:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2014-07-04T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:07:53","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-hussey-sibling-to-henry-james-and-nora-isabel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2014\/07\/04\/baby-girl-or-boy-hussey-sibling-to-henry-james-and-nora-isabel\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Hussey, Sibling to Henry James and Nora Isabel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi! We are expecting a baby any time now actually.. Due date is July 17th. My husband has two children\/I have two step children. They are Henry James and Nora Isabel. Last name is Hussey. We seem to be leaning towards something traditional in keeping with the other children’s name.<\/p>\n

I don’t really like names that are easily converted to a nickname, and especially not one where the assumption from the start is that we have named the child one thing with the intent of just going by a nickname anyway. Of course I understand people’s tendency to shorten names anyway.<\/p>\n

We don’t know if we are having a girl or boy so have chosen both. My husband is quite happy with the choice of Elliot for a son. I was too until I made the big mistake of sharing this with a friend who immediately said “Elliot smelliot”. Now that has turned me off. I really like Nate. My concern is if he’ll be asked constantly when he’s older whether that’s short for something. We are thinking middle name of James after my husband & his grandfather. I think it’s fine if two siblings share a middle name. Correct? Brody is another consideration but then we wouldn’t go for James as a middle name (BJ!). Also, do you think Elliot James is just asking for the nickname EJ? I’d like a name that won’t be considered geeky as he gets older. I like Aidan but my husband does not. I’m mentioning this because neither of us in general like the trend towards Irish names, especially oddly spelled (ie Colm)<\/p>\n

For a girl we really like Olivia. My concern is that it seems to be super popular right now. Will there be 10 Olivia’s in her class? We haven’t talked much about middle names but I like Hope since that’s the meaning of my first name (so giving her my name in a way that’s different than directly giving her my name). I also like Leia (pronounced like the princess from Star Wars) but we think she’ll get asked to Spell her name a lot. Or, get her name mispronounced a lot. Other considerations are Sophia (again really popular) and some that I like but I’m not sure my husband does such as Lola, Violet, Parker and Vivian.<\/p>\n

I also want to give the child my last name (Bonamin) as a 2nd middle name since I have not changed my last name and feel it would be a nice connection. However, I don’t expect them to use it all the time, especially in general conversation.<\/p>\n

Any advice?!<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I feel a little mad at your friend who said Elliot-Smelliot. For one thing, it feels to me as if we could do that to many names if we wanted to: Liam-PEEum or Lucas-PUKE-as or Emma-PHLEGM-a or Abigail-FLABigail or Justin-PUStin or Nicholas-DICKolas or Richard-BITCHard or Kristen-PISSten. “Being able to find an unappealing word that rhymes with one of the syllables” is not a reason to strike a name off the list, and it seems like people find rhymes like that when they want to spoil a name for someone else. On the other hand, I understand the impulse: I myself like to warn people if a potential issue jumps out at me, and would myself want to think ahead of time about situations such as Cooper-POOPer.<\/p>\n

If it is helpful to have one person’s experience, I took care of an Elliot when I worked in a daycare, and “Ell rhymes with smell” didn’t come up or cross my mind. Granted, I am not speaking from an elementary-school point of view here: infants don’t taunt each other much with name-calling. But still: with the current popularity of Ell- names, if it’s an issue for him at least he’ll be in good company. He and Ellie-Smelly and Isa-SMELL-a can eat lunch together.<\/p>\n

The name Elliot seems like a beautiful style match with Henry and Nora. The name Brody feels like less of a good fit: modern and surnamey with the two vintage-appeal classics.<\/p>\n

I don’t think a Nate would find it a constant overwhelming hassle to be asked if his name was short for something. It would probably come up about as often as I have to clarify that my name ends in -en not -in—which is to say, regularly but not overly often, and not in an way that makes me wish I’d been named something else. Still, Nate seems a little abrupt and nicknamey to me with the sibling names.<\/p>\n

Do you like the name Oliver? It feels similar to Elliot. Oliver Hussey; Henry, Nora, and Oliver.<\/p>\n

Or the two names I always think of with Elliot are Everett and Emmett. Everett Hussey; Henry, Nora, and Everett. Emmett Hussey; Henry, Nora, and Emmett.<\/p>\n

Or Simon would be nice. Simon Hussey; Henry, Nora, and Simon.<\/p>\n

Or Ethan. Ethan Hussey; Henry, Nora, and Ethan.<\/p>\n

Or I like the name John and I think it gets overlooked. John Hussey; Henry, Nora, and John.<\/p>\n

I think it’s fine and even sweet for two siblings to share the same middle name. If Henry is old enough to be asked, I think it would be a good idea to ask him how he feels about it. It could be something that makes him feel more connected to the baby, or it may feel as if the baby is taking something that used to be his.<\/p>\n

On a recent post<\/a>, someone made a comment that assumed that someone with a J- middle name would be called by their first two initials, but it’s not something I’ve encountered. The resulting discussion indicated that it may be a regional thing or a generational thing. I don’t think it would just happen, unless you have a family that is known to do it or you live somewhere where it’s automatically done. Is Henry ever called H.J.? Does anyone else in your circle of friends and family have a J- middle name and a resulting _.J. nickname that came about naturally (rather than because the parents chose it as the nickname)?<\/p>\n

There won’t be ten Olivias in her classroom, but the name Olivia has been in the Top 10 since 2001 so you’ll likely encounter a fair number of them over the years. The current usage is at .9562% of new baby girls. This means that approximately 1 new baby girl out of 100 is named Olivia, nationally-speaking. If a classroom has roughly 30 children in it and roughly half of them are girls, this means there is a national average of roughly 1 Olivia per 6-7 classrooms. Regional differences and random chance make it not unlikely that some years she will go by Olivia H. or Olivia Hope, but that seems like it would be fine.<\/p>\n

If you’d like something with a similar sound but less popularity, I suggest Lydia.<\/p>\n

I notice a lot of v-sounds on your girl list (Olivia, Vivian, Violet), so I’d also suggest Eva, Evelyn, Genevieve, and Silvia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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