{"id":10922,"date":"2015-02-02T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10922"},"modified":"2015-02-02T09:53:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T13:53:03","slug":"baby-boy-or-girl-mallz-bee-sibling-to-carson-and-lilah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/02\/02\/baby-boy-or-girl-mallz-bee-sibling-to-carson-and-lilah\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy or Girl Mallz-bee, Sibling to Carson and Lilah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swistle,<\/p>\n

I would love it if you would give your input on my naming situation! We have a son, Carson John, and a daughter, Lilah Michelle. Carson shares a middle name with my husband, and Lilah shares one with me. We are expecting our third (and final) child in April 2015.<\/p>\n

My concern is finding a name that blends well with the modern feel of Carson with the vintage type feel of Lilah. Carson is quite common where we live-Lilah is not. We did not find out the sex of the child, but for a boy we like have many more options than for a girl, so I really need help with girl names! For a boy, we like Reid, Owen, Blake, And Gavin.<\/p>\n

For a girl, every name we consider seems to “fit” with either Carson or Lilah-not both. We considered Ava when Lilah was born, and would consider it again but I’m not sure I love it in the sibset. Others we have considered are:<\/p>\n

Hallie\/Halle
\nSienna
\nMia
\nBrielle<\/p>\n

The middle name will likely be Elise to honor a family member, although we have considered Elise as a first name.<\/p>\n

Our last name sounds like Mall-z-bee. We have to be careful about names that end in the ee sound, although mine does and it doesn’t bother me. I’m not sure it’s the ideal sound though.<\/p>\n

I hope you can help us find a name to round out our sibset!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

In general, I like the brother names to go together and the sister names to go together—even if there is a style gap between the two sets of names. So if you have one boy and one girl, and all your girl names seem to go either with your boy name or with your girl name, and all else is equal, my own preference would be to choose one of the ones that goes with your girl name.<\/p>\n

Looking at your list, I think Ava goes very well with both Lilah and Carson. Hallie, too, seems to me to go well with both, but the combination of Lilah and Hallie is so L-heavy, especially with the L sound in your surname; it’s not enough for me to want to cross it off the list, but it’s enough for me to make a mark in the Con column. Sienna feels to me like a good fit with Carson but a mismatch with Lilah. I think Mia goes fine with both. Brielle seems like a good fit with Carson but quite modern next to Lilah. So if I were cutting down your list to meet my own preferences, I’d end up with:<\/p>\n

Ava
\nHallie
\nMia<\/p>\n

To add to the list, I might look at the time period when the name Lila\/Lilah last peaked, which was the 1920s. Sifting through names such as Mildred, Betty, and Doris, this is the sort of thing I’m thinking of:<\/p>\n

Audrey
\nCharlotte\/Lottie
\nClara
\nEleanor
\nEmma
\nEva
\nEvelyn
\nGrace
\nHazel
\nJosephine\/Josie
\nJune
\nLouise
\nMae
\nRose
\nRuby
\nSilvia
\nVivian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swistle, I would love it if you would give your input on my naming situation! We have a son, Carson John, and a daughter, Lilah Michelle. Carson shares a middle name with my husband, and Lilah shares one with me. We are expecting our third (and final) child in April 2015. My concern is finding […]<\/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-10922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2Qa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922","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=10922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10926,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922\/revisions\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}