{"id":10436,"date":"2014-09-09T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10436"},"modified":"2014-09-09T09:16:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:16:36","slug":"baby-girl-sister-to-violet-a-name-to-honor-grandpa-nathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2014\/09\/09\/baby-girl-sister-to-violet-a-name-to-honor-grandpa-nathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl, Sister to Violet; A Name to Honor Grandpa Nathan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle<\/p>\n

We need help! We are expecting our 2nd girl on Sept 22.
\nOur first daughter is Violet Aviva. Violet was a name that both my husband and I loved and his grandmother was an avid gardener and always grew African Violets, she recently passed away and so this was very meaningful to name after her. Aviva means spring which is my mother’s maiden name. We fell in love with all the meaning to her name.<\/p>\n

For our next daughter, we are stuck! We want to name after my grandfather who I was very close to and passed away in November. His name was Nathan.
\nWe are either looking for a name that starts with N or has a similar meaning or sound to Nathan. We are Jewish and I called him Zaidie so we even threw around the idea of naming her Sadie after him.<\/p>\n

Anyways, we are stuck! Names we are toying with include Neve,
\nNava, Nina, Sadie and then the name that I love the most is Beatrix but unfortunately doesn’t fit really to name after him.<\/p>\n

Any N name suggestions would be most appreciated!!!<\/p>\n

Thank you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The first N name that comes to mind is Natalie, for its similarity to Nathan. The look of Nathan and Sadie and Zaidie makes me think of Nadia. Or there’s Noelle and Nora (particularly good with Violet, I think) and Nola, but presumably you’ve already been through the N section of the name book.<\/p>\n

The connection between your first daughter’s names and the people those names honor is broad enough to work in your favor when choosing your second daughter’s name. Your husband’s grandmother liked gardening in general, and violets were one of the things she grew; you found a word that means the same thing as your mother’s maiden name. I’d suggest applying these same methods to finding more names. What were your grandfather’s hobbies and interests? What was his job? What was he good at? What was he known for? Did he have any nicknames? Did he have any collections? What was his favorite color? animal? sport? flower? How\/where did he grow up? What are some anecdotes he liked to tell about his childhood? Did he have a favorite sister? Did he name any of his children after someone important to him? What were his favorite places to go? Did he travel? Who were his favorite authors, actors, politicians, historical figures, role models, artists, musicians? Did he have any strong views? What virtues did he value? What street did he live on? Where was he born? Was he born in a familiar-girl-name month (April, May, June)? What’s the birthstone of his birth month? Where were his ancestors from? Would his mother’s maiden name work? Is there a feminine version of his middle name? Do you know what his name would have been if he’d been born a girl? Would an anagramming tool<\/a> find any names within his full name? What is the meaning of his surname? What is the meaning of his middle name? The name Nathan means “he\/God has given”; perhaps you could find girl names with the same (or similar) meaning: Dorothea, Theodora, Thea, etc.<\/p>\n

Sadie works along these lines, and is a nice style match with Violet. Perhaps you could use Beatrix as the middle name.<\/p>\n

Or perhaps you could use Beatrix as the first name, and use Nathan as the middle name. You could feminize it, if you like: Nathania (nah-THAN-ya), for example.<\/p>\n

The name Hannah shares many of the letters of Nathan, and has a somewhat similar sound.<\/p>\n

Athena, too, though that doesn’t go as well with Violet, I don’t think.<\/p>\n

Did he go by Nate? If so, perhaps Kate?<\/p>\n

Or it may be that it just won’t work. It happens fairly often that someone really, really, really wants to honor a particular person with a baby’s name, but there just isn’t a good way to do it. If you’re stuck, you might find you get unstuck by looking for different family members to honor, and honoring your grandfather with your memories and stories of him instead. And if you’re planning more children, perhaps the name Nathan could be tucked away for a possible future boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle We need help! We are expecting our 2nd girl on Sept 22. Our first daughter is Violet Aviva. Violet was a name that both my husband and I loved and his grandmother was an avid gardener and always grew African Violets, she recently passed away and so this was very meaningful to name […]<\/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-10436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2Ik","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436","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=10436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10441,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions\/10441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}