{"id":10524,"date":"2014-10-09T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T12:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10524"},"modified":"2014-10-09T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T12:46:20","slug":"middle-name-challenge-welles-_________-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2014\/10\/09\/middle-name-challenge-welles-_________-johnston\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Name Challenge: Welles _________ Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hello! We are very excited about our 2nd child. We are naming the baby Welles regardless if it is a boy or a girl. For a girl we like Welles Katherine or Welles Kate but we are totally stumped for a boy middle name. For our first, we used Pierce Robert. Our last name is Johnston. What do you think? Baby is due in spring!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It looks to me as if you may like classic\/traditional middle names: your first son&#8217;s middle is Robert, and your middle name choice for a girl this time is Katherine. (I prefer Welles Katherine to Wells Kate, rhythm-wise and also because I get a little bit of Well Skate run-together.) Are Robert and Katherine honor names? If so, that&#8217;s where I&#8217;d look for a boy&#8217;s middle name.<\/p>\n<p>If they&#8217;re not honor names, then I&#8217;d start by looking for names of a similar style. I was combing through possibilities and none seemed quite right until I came to Welles Henry Johnston. That&#8217;s my favorite. More possibilities:<\/p>\n<p>Welles Frederick Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Philip\/Phillip Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Thomas Johnston<\/p>\n<p>A middle-name-finding strategy I used for my own kids&#8217; names was to go through the baby name book saying each combination rapidly in my head and seeing if any stood out: Welles Aaron Johnston, Welles Abel Johnston, Welles Abraham Johnston, and so on. Not taking a long time over it or even necessarily trying each possibility carefully\/individually, just sort of skimming fast while saying Welles ____ Johnston over and over, and seeing what felt like it clicked into place. I didn&#8217;t go through the whole name book, but a few that stood out to me:<\/p>\n<p>Welles Alexander Johnston<br \/>\nWelles David Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Davis Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Douglas Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Gilbert Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Griffith Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Hugo Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Kenneth Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Leonard Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Lucas Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Matthew Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Michael Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Nicholas Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Patrick Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Russell Johnston (a little L\/S heavy?)<br \/>\nWelles Theodore Johnston<br \/>\nWelles Timothy Johnston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! We are very excited about our 2nd child. We are naming the baby Welles regardless if it is a boy or a girl. For a girl we like Welles Katherine or Welles Kate but we are totally stumped for a boy middle name. For our first, we used Pierce Robert. Our last name is [&hellip;]<\/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-10524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2JK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524","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=10524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10527,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions\/10527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}