{"id":10874,"date":"2015-01-26T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10874"},"modified":"2015-05-07T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:52:35","slug":"baby-boy-polanco-brother-to-emmerson-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/01\/26\/baby-boy-polanco-brother-to-emmerson-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Polanco, Brother to Emmerson Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

We have a two year old daughter named Emmerson Grace. We call her Em, Emmie, Emmie G or Emmie Grace. We are expecting a baby boy in April and I just really cannot find a boy name I like or feel comfortable with. I think names that I like are too “out there” and names my husband likes are even further out there than you can imagine (ie. he likes names such as Beauregard, Alpheus, and Yorke). These are all an absolute NO for me.<\/p>\n

With our daughter, Emmerson always stood out to us and was our “go-to” throughout my pregnancy, even though we considered a million names and we were deciding between two names in the hospital. We really thought this baby was a girl and we just can’t seem to find any boy names that feel right. We don’t really have one name we love or one name we can fall back on.<\/p>\n

The one name we were considering since before we got pregnant is Griffin. We aren’t sure how we like names that end in the “in” sound with Emmerson, though. How do Emmerson and Griffin sound to you?<\/p>\n

Right now here is our list:<\/p>\n

Griffin – “in” sounds weird with Emmerson’s name.<\/p>\n

Whittaker – we both really like this name. My husband especially. I really like the feel of it, how it sounds with Emmerson, and that it has good nickname potential (We like Whit) but something about it feels off. Is it odd or clumsy sounding to you? Something with the ending sound “aker” makes me pause. Also, we made the mistake of mentioning it to a friend who flat out said it was awful and “stupid”. So now I’m really not sure.<\/p>\n

Shepard – just.. eh..<\/p>\n

August – really love but do *not* like the nickname Auggie OR Gus. Which means 1. this name has no nickname potential for us which isn’t necessary but would be nice since Emmerson has many nicknames. and 2. there is the potential for him to get these nicknames one day and I really would not be fond of them at all, especially Auggie. Also concerned about popularity.<\/p>\n

Fielding – unsure – same deal as Whittaker. Sound is weird? Can’t picture a baby named Fielding<\/p>\n

Wolfe – My husband loves, I do not.<\/p>\n

Bennett – My father in law is Benito, nickname Beni and my husband likes the idea of Beni being a potential nickname. I like Bennett but do not like the name Beni so I really wouldn’t want that to be his nickname,<\/p>\n

That’s it. Are there names we are missing? Names that have the feel of Whittaker but maybe sound a little nicer to the ear? Other names that seem to match our style that we aren’t thinking of? None of these are names that either of us are that excited about so we are open to suggestions.<\/p>\n

Other information:<\/p>\n

I am Bonnie, my husband is Alastor and our last name is Polanco. We hope to have three children. We prefer names that are recognizable as names but *not* popular. Emmerson has gotten a little too popular for our liking. Another reason we really like Whittaker is that it’s not in the top 1000.<\/p>\n

He will have a middle name but that is also completely up in the air. We are open to suggestions. My grandfather’s name was Bernard. My husband really likes this name. I do not like it but like the idea of honoring my grandfather.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your time, patience, and consideration.<\/p>\n

All the best,<\/p>\n

Bonnie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

\nDear Swistle,<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for posting our question a few months ago about our baby boy! He came two weeks early and we still weren’t prepared with a name. I couldn’t get past the hard sound at the end of Whittaker. I still like it, but something felt off to me. In the end Shephard grew on me, a lot. Something about it sounded really calm to me but also kind of cool. We were in the hospital and for two days went back and forth on the names August Bernard (Bernard for my grandfather) and Shephard. It was a tough call and it could have been either name. We called in family members at that point bc we were desperate and we even created a long pros\/cons list for both names.<\/p>\n

The only problem with Shephard was we couldn’t find a middle name we liked with it that had any meaning. A very smart friend pointed out that Shephard Bernard was not a good idea with the dog associations ;).<\/p>\n

My husband always loved the name Rhys, though. SO in the end we decided that as much as we *loved* August, we did not like the nicknames Auggie or Gus at *all*. We also did not love how August is rising in popularity while Shephard (or Shepherd, Shepard) are not in the top 1000 in the SS data base.
\nWe loved how Shephard Rhys sounded. Then my mom (who first hated the name) remembered that my grandfather used to call her Shep and Sheppy (he had crazy nicknames for everyone!) We thought this was such a cute connection we went with it! So, after all of that…. we are happy to introduce Shephard Rhys Polanco. Pictures of him and our daughter Emmerson attached!<\/p>\n

Thank you again! You and your readers are wonderful and we are very happy with his name. It fits him perfectly. It reminds me of calm, rolling hills and shepherds tending their flocks and he is our calm, chill, peaceful little love bug.<\/p>\n

All the best,<\/p>\n

Bonnie and Alastor
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Hi Swistle! We have a two year old daughter named Emmerson Grace. We call her Em, Emmie, Emmie G or Emmie Grace. We are expecting a baby boy in April and I just really cannot find a boy name I like or feel comfortable with. I think names that I like are too “out there” […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2Po","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","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=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11293,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions\/11293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}