{"id":10552,"date":"2014-10-20T11:09:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10552"},"modified":"2015-01-04T21:09:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T01:09:26","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-s-sibling-to-patrick-lila-and-joel-good-c-names-for-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2014\/10\/20\/baby-girl-or-boy-s-sibling-to-patrick-lila-and-joel-good-c-names-for-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy S., Sibling to Patrick, Lila, and Joel: Good C Names for Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Relevant facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My husband has an unusual three-letter name.<\/li>\n<li>Our last name starts with S, which is also the third letter of my husband&#8217;s first name.<\/li>\n<li>I am due late December with #4, and we&#8217;ve decided not to find out the sex of the baby this time.<\/li>\n<li>This is our final child, we have a naming pattern with the other three of &#8220;first name we liked, middle name family name.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The girls family name we liked last time (when we had a boy) was Alice.<\/li>\n<li>If we name a baby _________ Alice S________ that gets us reaaaaaaally close to initials that spell my husband&#8217;s first name<\/li>\n<li>This is cool, right??? My husband and I both think so!<\/li>\n<li>Butttttttttt&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..and there had to be one&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..there are only two girls names that start with C that I like-not-love (Cora and Clara) and lately I&#8217;ve even been toying with NOT using Alice (though I think ultimately we will.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So here&#8217;s where I need help. Can you think of any other &#8220;C&#8221; girls names that are similar to Cora, Clara (or our other kids &#8211; Patrick, Lila, Joel &#8211; not super popular but not weird)? OR, can you release me from the desire to HAVE TO USE a name that starts with C?<\/p>\n<p>Relevant info for a boy: we are NOT considering the naming pattern for a boy, but would welcome boys name ideas similar to:<\/p>\n<p>Leo<br \/>\nEmmett<br \/>\nElliott<br \/>\nCaleb<br \/>\nand of course &#8211; Patrick and Joel<\/p>\n<p>Help me Swistle!!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will start by making a suggestion I know you have already considered, so it is a little silly to make the suggestion at all, except that sometimes around here we&#8217;ve found that it works. Here it is: I love the name Alice with this sibling set, and so I suggest it as the first name. But I know it&#8217;s common for a previous frontrunner to not seem quite right for a subsequent child, so I won&#8217;t push. But Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Alice&#8212;I love it.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is to discuss some good C names for girls, and then after that I&#8217;ll work on removing the pressure to choose one of them. Cora and Clara are both great: I love both of those.<\/p>\n<p>Another of my favorite C names is Celeste, but I suspect that would be too much S-sound with your surname. Cecily has the same issue.<\/p>\n<p>Colette, maybe? Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Colette. Hm, it may share too many sounds with Joel.<\/p>\n<p>Or Corinne. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Corinne.<\/p>\n<p>Or Cleo. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Cleo. It bothers me a little bit that Joel and Cleo both have four letters and share three of them.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia works, I think. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Claudia.<\/p>\n<p>Camille would be pretty. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Camille.<\/p>\n<p>Carys may not work with Alice, which is too bad. Carissa instead, or Clarissa? Clarissa is one of my own favorites. But it might have too much S-sound to work well with your surname.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, perhaps plain Claire? Similar to Clara, and takes away all the S of Clarissa. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Claire.<\/p>\n<p>I like Cressida, but I wonder if it&#8217;s a little too unusual for the sibling group; also it has the S issue.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my favorites are still your top two, Cora and Clara. I have a slight preference for Cora with Lila, but it&#8217;s only slight.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the reassurance. While I agree that it is quite fun and interesting to have a child&#8217;s initials spell your husband&#8217;s name, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fun\/interesting enough to be worth choosing a name you only like, if there are names you love. It&#8217;s the sort of gimmick I do enjoy (like when twins have matching initials or reversed first\/middle initials), but it doesn&#8217;t feel irresistible. I think in the long run you would get more satisfaction out of choosing a name you loved.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it would break your naming pattern, which of course is fine, but it&#8217;s an argument to use if you&#8217;d LIKE to talk yourself out of it. (If you wanted to be talked INTO it, and if you found a C name that you liked well enough to use, I&#8217;d instead be saying you were still meeting the spirit of the naming pattern: names you liked plus a family-name connection.)<\/p>\n<p>One possibility is to just get CLOSE to the idea: you could give her the same three letters in a different order, for example (Alice C. S.), or use your husband&#8217;s name (or a feminine form of it such as Cassie or Cassandra) as her middle name.<\/p>\n<p>I think my strategy at this point would be to set aside the initials idea for now, and look for first names you love. If you find some, then weigh it: &#8220;This name we love, or this name we like-don&#8217;t-love with the fun initials?&#8221; If you find only names you like, then it&#8217;s a different situation, and may help make one name pull ahead of the others: &#8220;This name we like-don&#8217;t-love with fun initials, or this name we like-don&#8217;t-love without fun initials?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For boys, I&#8217;m going to copy the list down here again so we have it to look at; names similar to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leo<br \/>\nEmmett<br \/>\nElliott<br \/>\nCaleb<br \/>\nand of course &#8211; Patrick and Joel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A name we had on our finalist list for our youngest child may work here: Alan. We&#8217;d watched a television show with a very appealing Alan Alda doing the hosting\/narrating, and then of course there&#8217;s Alan Rickman. It comes to mind because I saw it in action on a child for the first time just this weekend: I was in a store, and a mother called her elementary-school-aged son Alan, and I thought &#8220;That works!&#8221; It&#8217;s a slight surprise, without seeming weird. It&#8217;s similar in sound to Alice, and I think it goes well with brothers Patrick and Joel.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if you would like the name Calvin? Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Calvin.<\/p>\n<p>Or Henry. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Henry.<\/p>\n<p>Or Wesley. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Wesley.<\/p>\n<p>Or Timothy. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Timothy.<\/p>\n<p>Or Malcolm. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Malcolm.<\/p>\n<p>Or Graham. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Graham.<\/p>\n<p>Or Edmund. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Edmund.<\/p>\n<p>Or Callum. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Callum.<\/p>\n<p>Or Gideon. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Gideon.<\/p>\n<p>Or Micah. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Micah.<\/p>\n<p>Or Philip. Patrick, Lila, Joel, and Philip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name update!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First of all, I was completely swayed by you and your commenters and decided that we&#8217;d buck the C-A-S initial idea and go with Alice Rose for a girl.\u00a0 I loved it, I dreamed it, I wanted it &#8211; and then we had a BOY!<\/p>\n<p>Elliot Baxter (Baxter is the birthplace of my grandmother &#8211; she hated her name so we went a little creative to honor her) was born December 19, 9lbs 3oz and 21 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Picture attached!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your help &#8211; I am totally mourning the loss of Alice, but we love our Elliot.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10801\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/09-_DSC1474.jpg\" alt=\"09-_DSC1474\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/09-_DSC1474.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/09-_DSC1474-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevant facts: My husband has an unusual three-letter name. Our last name starts with S, which is also the third letter of my husband&#8217;s first name. I am due late December with #4, and we&#8217;ve decided not to find out the sex of the baby this time. 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