{"id":10569,"date":"2014-10-27T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10569"},"modified":"2014-10-27T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:28:00","slug":"baby-girl-smith-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2014\/10\/27\/baby-girl-smith-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n

I’ve waited 6+ years to be able to write you and talk baby names. My name is Allyson (nn Ally) and I’m pregnant with our first child\u2014a girl\u2014and due in late February. My husband, Adam, and I have very different tastes when it comes to girl names. Boy names… piece of cake… we love the names Graham, Archer, Atlas. But deciding on a name for our daughter has been nearly painful, especially trying to come up with something special given that our last name is Smith. The only name we’ve been able to agree upon is Zoe. I love everything about the name: the meaning, the ‘z’ sound, the simplicity. But neither of us our sold on it being “the name.” We would like to give her my maiden name as her middle name, Martel. ______ Martel Smith.<\/p>\n

Here are some names from my list:
\nHazel
\nWynne
\nCozette
\nNaomi
\nNoelle<\/p>\n

Here are some names from my husband’s list:
\nSavannah
\nKayla
\nHadley
\nAva<\/p>\n

Please, please help us! We’re desperate for your input.<\/p>\n

Thank you,<\/p>\n

Ally Smith<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I think you might be unhappy with the popularity of the name Zoe: combining the 7,187 new baby girls named Zoey and 5,920 new baby girls named Zoe in 2013, the name is as common as Mia, Emily, or Abigail (the 6th, 7th, and 8th most popular girl names in the United States in that year).<\/p>\n

I wonder if you’d like Eliza. It has the Z sound, and I love it with the middle\/surname: Eliza Martel Smith.<\/p>\n

Or Esme. Esme Smith; Esme Martel Smith.<\/p>\n

Or very similar to Zoe but quite a bit less common: Zola.<\/p>\n

Or Zara.<\/p>\n

Or Cleo. Cleo Smith; Cleo Martel Smith.<\/p>\n

Or Ivy. Ivy Smith; Ivy Martel Smith.<\/p>\n

Or Eve. Eve Smith; Eve Martel Smith.<\/p>\n

If it wouldn’t make you feel trapped into continuing with A-names, Azalea is distinctive.<\/p>\n

Or Zinnia.<\/p>\n

Maisy is sweet. We were such fans of Lucy Cousins’s Maisy books at our house, the name brings that character to my mind immediately—but it’s a highly positive association. Maisy Smith; Maisy Martel Smith. I also like Maisy as a nickname for Margaret, but I’m not as fond of the sound of Margaret Martel.<\/p>\n

Josie has both the Z-sound and the long-O\/long-E sounds of Zoe. Josephine Smith; Josephine Martel Smith. Or you could call her Joey, which is even closer to Zoe.<\/p>\n

I see a couple of V-sounds on your husband’s list, plus Ava; these make me think of Genevieve. Genevieve Smith; Genevieve Martel Smith. Maybe with the nickname Evie.<\/p>\n

Olive is quite distinctive. Olive Smith; Olive Martel Smith.<\/p>\n

Or Haven. Haven Smith; Haven Martel Smith.<\/p>\n

Or Maeve.<\/p>\n

Or Silvia\/Sylvia.<\/p>\n

Kayla from your husband’s list feels past its peak, but I wonder if you’d like Kaye. It reminds me of Wynne from your list. Kaye Smith; Kaye Martel Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle, I’ve waited 6+ years to be able to write you and talk baby names. My name is Allyson (nn Ally) and I’m pregnant with our first child\u2014a girl\u2014and due in late February. My husband, Adam, and I have very different tastes when it comes to girl names. Boy names… piece of cake… 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2Kt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569","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=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10570,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions\/10570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}