{"id":10425,"date":"2014-09-04T08:57:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10425"},"modified":"2014-11-14T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T15:11:36","slug":"baby-girl-trucker-sister-to-lydi-and-eliz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2014\/09\/04\/baby-girl-trucker-sister-to-lydi-and-eliz\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Trucker, Sister to Lydi@ and Eliz@"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

We have two girls — Lydi@ Jean (almost 5) and Eliz@ Anne (almost 2.5). Our last name is Trucker (without the first “r”). We’re expecting baby girl #3 the first week of November.<\/p>\n

With our first, we came up with a list that we liked just from our brains. With our second, we looked through a baby name book and listed all of the names we liked (about 50!) and then we narrowed down from there. We went through several rounds, including one in which we picked our top 15 from a list of 30. We had exactly zero names in common. ZERO! We were down to about 5 when she was born. I think my husband was slightly traumatized by the whole natural birth experience (my first was a c-section). His defenses were low, so he just let me pick whatever I wanted. I did!<\/p>\n

Both of our girls share the middle names of their grandmothers. Since this is our last baby, I wanted to include my husband’s (A@ron) name since we probably would have named a boy for him. We will likely go with “Erin.” I’m not too concerned with how the first name flows with the second since we call our kids just by their first name and random affectionate nicknames.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of similarities of my older girls’ names:
\n— five letters
\n— three syllables
\n— ends in “a”
\n— I didn’t realize this until someone pointed it out, but they have the names of sisters in Pride and Prejudice (Lydia, Elizabeth) so there is always Mary, Kitty or Jane!<\/p>\n

I am not stuck on any of these similarities as requirements for the third — and definitely not attached to the literary connection — but I do like the end in “a.” My husband, on the other hand, is not entirely sold on that. I’d also like to avoid the same first initial, but it isn’t a deal breaker.<\/p>\n

My husband prefers names that don’t have natural nicknames — like Becca for Rebecca. Not sure why… Maybe he is jealous that his name doesn’t lend itself to a nickname? ;) Nicknames don’t bother me. Our daughters have traditionally feminine names, so a unisex name would probably not work.<\/p>\n

Just for added interest, we have three nieces (Clar@, Ameli@ and Juli@).<\/p>\n

We clearly have differing views on names. For example, my husband likes Keylee, Chloe, Cynthia and Natalie. I prefer names like Cordelia, Greta, Adalaide and Sylvia.<\/p>\n

We started out this baby naming with a list of 40 names, mostly the ones from the 2nd baby list. We’ve gone through three elimination rounds.<\/p>\n

Round 1: We said each name and each person decided yes, no or maybe. Two negatives meant it got crossed off. If it was no and maybe, the maybe person got to decide whether to keep it on the list.<\/p>\n

Round 2: Each person listed his\/her top ten. Any not making the cut were eliminated.<\/p>\n

Round 3: Each person listed seven names they would like to remove from the list.<\/p>\n

We’re down to the following, but I fear it might take us until labor and delivery to go through enough rounds to settle on a name we both like!<\/p>\n

Alaina
\nChloe
\nCamilla
\nCelia\/Cecelia
\nEmmaline
\nMoira
\nNatalie
\nRebecca
\nSara<\/p>\n

Any advice? Are we missing a great option? Or do you have suggestions for Round 4 elimination?!?!<\/p>\n

Best,
\nLis@ (figured I’d end with an ampersand for the “a” just for continuity — haha)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

I love your elimination rounds. I think you’ve come up with a very nice list, and I think you could choose any of the names and be happy.<\/p>\n

If I were narrowing it down myself and LOOKING for reasons to remove names, I might first take off Alaina: when I say it aloud, it seems very similar to Eliz@ (spelling it Elena makes what I’m hearing more visual).<\/p>\n

I might take off Chloe for being a somewhat different style than the other two, and for being much more common. I might take off Natalie for similar reasons.<\/p>\n

I might take off Emmeline because it repeats an initial.<\/p>\n

This would leave me with:<\/p>\n

Camilla
\nCelia
\nMoira
\nRebecca
\nSara<\/p>\n

Perhaps next I would remove Moira for being tricky to pronounce\/spell, and Sara for the continual hassle of -a vs. -ah. It’s not that these are big deals (the continual hassle of Kristen\/Kristin hasn’t made me wish I had a different name), just that I’d be looking for ways to pare down the list. This would leave me with:<\/p>\n

Camilla
\nCelia
\nRebecca<\/p>\n

Your husband doesn’t like easy nicknames, so I would probably take Rebecca off at this point. Maybe Camilla, too: Cam, Cammie, and Millie all come easily to mind when I picture using that name on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

This leaves me with Celia. I admit being drawn to it for symmetry in addition to the other reasons, such as going well with your style and not going against any of your preferences. I love that then all three girls would have five letters, three syllables, and end in -a; that just seems fun to me. Plus, I love the name Celia and I think it fits very well with the other two, and I think it’s great with your surname. I just like it best overall: although I did this post in elimination style to match the theme, my actual process was to read the list and say “Oooh, Celia! That’s my definite favorite!”<\/p>\n

Another 5-letter, 3-syllable name ending in -a is Fiona. I love that one, too.<\/p>\n

If you wanted to deliberately break the theme, I might suggest Cecily and Cora and Alice.<\/p>\n

Let’s see the commenters’ elimination rounds!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

As suspected, we waited until we were actually in labor and delivery on October 29 to decide our daughter’s name. I loved all of the comments and suggestions from readers. I was so tempted to go with Nora after several people pointed out that it is Aaron spelled backwards. But we agreed on Celia Erin. I am so happy with her name! Thanks for your help!<\/p>\n

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Dear Swistle, We have two girls — Lydi@ Jean (almost 5) and Eliz@ Anne (almost 2.5). Our last name is Trucker (without the first “r”). We’re expecting baby girl #3 the first week of November. With our first, we came up with a list that we liked just from our brains. With our second, we […]<\/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-10425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2I9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425","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=10425"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10642,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions\/10642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}