{"id":10593,"date":"2014-10-30T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2015-02-11T07:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T11:08:54","slug":"baby-boy-burt0n-brother-to-hannah-claire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2014\/10\/30\/baby-boy-burt0n-brother-to-hannah-claire\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Burt0n, Brother to Hannah Claire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Help Swistle!<\/p>\n

We are having our second child, a boy, in four days and still don’t know what we are going to call him. He’s been called Baby Brother throughout the pregnancy. Our first child is a girl named Hannah Claire. Her middle name is a namesake for a dear family friend and Hannah both my husband and I instantly loved. Our last name is Burt0n.<\/p>\n

We like traditional \/ widely recognized names that are not too overused.<\/p>\n

I love Holden for a boy but I don’t think it works with our surname. I also like Finnegan and Finn but again struggle with the N sound at the end.<\/p>\n

My husband likes Noah for a first name. Noah reminds me too much of “No” and I imagine myself shouting “No, Noah!” at the playground! Perhaps this association would fade though?<\/p>\n

I’d like to use my Grandfather’s name James as a namesake but as a middle name since it’s so popular now. My husband is considering it for a first name, since we haven’t thought of anything else we can agree on. At any rate James is the only name on the yes list at the moment.<\/p>\n

Samuel is also a contender, though we have a few girl relatives who go by Sam or Sammie.<\/p>\n

We both come from large families and a lot of the typical traditional names have been used (Matthew, Daniel, Richard, Charles, Thomas, Nicholas, John, Anthony, Alexander, Benjamin, Jacob, etc.)<\/p>\n

Any thoughts?!<\/p>\n

Many thanks,<\/p>\n

Sarah<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This post has some feedback in the comments section on whether “No, Noah” is an issue: Baby Boy Smith, Brother to Carson Michael<\/a>. I don’t think it would be a problem. A bigger issue for me is that Hannah and Noah both end in -ah and both have strong N-sounds: they sound and look very similar to me, almost like rearrangements of each other. I don’t think that would need to rule out the name Noah, but since it also reminds you of “no” and you’d prefer to avoid overused names (it’s currently the most popular boy name in the United States), it seems like it isn’t the name you want.<\/p>\n

I vote for James. It’s less common at #13 than the #1-ranking Noah (18,090 new baby boys named Noah and 13,416 named James in 2013); you both agree on it; and it’s a family name. I love the names Hannah and James together, and I think James Burt0n is a wonderful name. Perhaps Noah would work as the middle name? James Noah Burt0n.<\/p>\n

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

It was so great to see your response and everyone’s comments.\u00a0 It was helpful to have new suggestions we hadn’t considered before.\u00a0 In the end, we decided on Samuel James, which I love – though we do still call him Baby Brother quite often!\u00a0 I can hardly believe he is already 3 months old.\u00a0 Thank you again for the input!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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