{"id":10071,"date":"2014-07-07T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T10:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10071"},"modified":"2014-10-13T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T01:18:24","slug":"baby-girl-rhymes-with-kerchew-sister-to-josephine-mae-joey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2014\/07\/07\/baby-girl-rhymes-with-kerchew-sister-to-josephine-mae-joey\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Rhymes-with-Kerchew, Sister to Josephine Mae (Joey)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,
\nI am due in September with a baby girl. We have a 4-year-old daughter named Josephine Mae who often goes by Joey. Our last name is French and hard to pronounce and rhymes with ker-CHEW and starts with a \u201cja\u201d sound. My name is very unusual but simple and my husband\u2019s name is fairly common. Because the last name is tricky, we\u2019d like to find a name for our daughter that people are familiar with but isn\u2019t ultra-popular, either. We lean towards classic\/old-lady names. We like either Pearl or Claire for a middle name. This will be our last child. If she\u2019d been a boy, we would have likely named him August George.<\/p>\n

Names we both like:
\nGreta
\nMatilda (nn: Tilly, Millie, Molly) \u2013 this name would honor my grandmother
\nSadie
\nClara<\/p>\n

Maybes:
\nDelia
\nCaroline (nn: Cal)
\nEdith (nn: Edie) \u2013 meaningful family connection
\nHilda \u2013 would honor my husband\u2019s grandmother
\nRuby<\/p>\n

Names I like:
\nBeatrice
\nLouise
\nLuisa
\nNell<\/p>\n

Names my husband likes:
\nMariana
\nPriscilla
\nIda<\/p>\n

Names we like but probably won\u2019t use for various reasons:
\nEliza (an Eliza and an Elizabeth already in the family)
\nHenrietta (close friend with new baby with same name)
\nEmmaline (close friend Emily; Emma is so popular)
\nClementine (too spunky?)
\nAvelina (pronunciation an issue)
\nAdelaide (friend\u2019s baby\u2019s name)
\nJuniper (too much alliteration with Josephine and our last name)<\/p>\n

We\u2019d love your (and your readers\u2019) thoughts and suggestions!
\nThanks much,
\nNameless in Seattle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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With the sibling name Josephine, I’d be inclined to go with the long version of Greta and then use Greta as the nickname. Josephine (Joey) and Margaret (Greta).<\/p>\n

Sadie is more difficult, because it’s a nickname for Sarah but I’m not sure that’s well-known, and because I don’t think Josephine and Sarah go together better than Josephine and Sadie; in fact, I much prefer Josephine and Sadie. But Sadie still seems nicknamey to me with Josephine. Joey and Sadie are very cute together.<\/p>\n

Clara is an excellent style fit, but it bothers me just a little bit that it doesn’t have a nickname similar to Joey. (But if you were writing to say it was your favorite and you were concerned that it didn’t have a nickname, I’d be brushing that concern aside.)<\/p>\n

If Margaret\/Greta is not an appealing option, then my top choice on your list is Matilda. I like that it’s similar in length to Josephine, with similar nickname options; I also like that it would honor your grandmother (and with the -ilda ending, it comes close to also honoring your husband’s grandmother Hilda). I immediately want to use a short middle name starting with J, to coordinate with Mae. Josephine Mae and Matilda Joy, for example: each girl’s middle name would start with the first two letters of the other girl’s first name. But that’s just playing around for fun.<\/p>\n

I might also take Delia from your Maybe list and make it into Cordelia, which gives you Cory as a nickname option. Josephine and Cordelia; Joey and Cory.<\/p>\n

Because you like Henrietta but can’t use it, I suggest Harriet. Josephine and Harriet; Joey and Hattie.<\/p>\n

Because you like Eliza but can’t use it, I suggest Eloise. Josephine and Eloise. I’m not sure what to suggest as the nickname for Eloise. Ellie, I suppose. Or I’ve seen Lola suggested, but it doesn’t feel natural to me; perhaps it WOULD come about naturally, though, or perhaps another nickname would instead. (This is how I feel about Clara as well: perhaps she would be called Clary, or perhaps something else would develop on its own.)<\/p>\n

Because you like August for a boy, I suggest Augusta. Josephine and Augusta; Joey and Gussie.<\/p>\n

Edith on your list makes me think of Meredith. Josephine and Meredith; Joey and Merrie. But that may ruin the family connection element.<\/p>\n

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Name update!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Swistle,
\nThank you so much to you and your readers for your input on our naming debate! We loved reading through the comments and getting opinions from people who were not our family and friends.<\/p>\n

Our second daughter was born on September 25th and we named her Matilda Louise. We’ve been calling her Tilly and Tilly Lou. Matilda honors grandmothers on both sides of the family and Louise honors my husband’s great-aunt. Big sister Josephine is in love, as are we.<\/p>\n

Thanks again!<\/p>\n

\"Matilda\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, I am due in September with a baby girl. We have a 4-year-old daughter named Josephine Mae who often goes by Joey. Our last name is French and hard to pronounce and rhymes with ker-CHEW and starts with a \u201cja\u201d sound. My name is very unusual but simple and my husband\u2019s name is […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2Cr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071","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=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10534,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions\/10534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}