{"id":11127,"date":"2015-03-27T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11127"},"modified":"2015-03-27T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:59:13","slug":"baby-boy-carman-with-a-j-brother-to-hadley-emmerson-brinley-and-huxton-unusual-surname-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/03\/27\/baby-boy-carman-with-a-j-brother-to-hadley-emmerson-brinley-and-huxton-unusual-surname-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Carman-with-a-J, Brother to Hadley, Emmerson, Brinley, and Huxton; Unusual Surname Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n

My husband and I are expecting our fifth (and we are pretty sure, final) baby in July.\u00a0 Our names are Gordy & Megan, last name sounds like Carman, but with a J.<\/p>\n

We had a girl name all picked out: Montgomery Adell, we just loved Montgomery and Adell is a family name.\u00a0 We just found out last week we are having a boy and I’m going crazy trying to find a name that fits with ours and is unique enough for me.\u00a0 As a Megan, I’ve met hundreds of other Megan’s, and I never wanted to have my kids to have the same thing happen to them.<\/p>\n

We have 3 daughters and a son; Hadley Jo, Emmerson Paige & Brinley Jean and Huxton Louis. We’ve got a Surname thing going and would like to keep that going. Plus Huxton isn’t not on the SS list at all, so using a name that isn’t on it or very high at all, is important to us.\u00a0 Even Hadley and Emmerson have moved up on the SS list quite a bit since we named our girls.
\nAnother thing that is important to me is nicknames, we’ve got Emmy, Brinny and Huck. And I want to be able to fall in love with our babies name and nickname.<\/p>\n

This baby’s middle name will be Gibb, my father’s middle name.<\/p>\n

Our list as of now is:
\nDecker
\nDeacon
\nMaCalister
\nMacklen
\nMonroe (my husband doesn’t love this one)
\nI also love Beckham, but it’s more popular.<\/p>\n

I am very open to suggestions, as none of these names have made me very excited.\u00a0 I love our kids names and when we decided on Huxton, I just knew that was it.\u00a0 So any help you can give us would be very welcomed.<\/p>\n

Thanks so much!<\/p>\n

Megan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

My suggestion is to use Montgomery. Although it’s traditionally a boy name, it’s currently extremely unusual for boys as well as for girls—unlike, say, Jacob, which would be extremely unusual for a girl but extremely common for a boy. In 2013, the Social Security Administration reports the name Montgomery was used for 82 new baby boys and 19 new baby girls. This makes it somewhat more common than the name Huxton (10 new baby boys in 2013), but still significantly less common than the names Hadley, Emmerson\/Emerson\/Emersyn\/etc., and Brinley\/Brinlee\/Brinleigh\/etc. (hundreds\/thousands of each in 2013). Montgomery Gibb seems like an excellent choice for the sibling group.<\/p>\n

More suggestions:<\/p>\n

Abbott
\nBanks
\nBaxter
\nBecker
\nConway
\nCrawford
\nCrockett
\nCrosby
\nFielding
\nFletcher
\nGates
\nGibson
\nKeller
\nLawson
\nMcCormick
\nMcNeil
\nMercer
\nMerritt
\nMeyer
\nMeyers\/Myers
\nMiller
\nMorris
\nMurphy
\nNicholson
\nNickerson
\nPerkins
\nRedford
\nReeves
\nShepard\/Shepherd
\nSmith
\nTurner
\nWagner
\nWalsh
\nWatkins
\nWhitaker
\nWilder
\nWilkins<\/p>\n

I included names even if I couldn’t think of a nickname right away; I am not always quick to see nickname potential. I took out Hathaway and Holloway after realizing that might be too much H with Hadley and Huxton. I took out Gibson and Lawson and Nicholson and Nickerson after realizing they repeated the ending of Emerson, but especially with five children I think it would be fine to repeat an ending, so I put them back in. Names such as Perkins and Watkins might be too much -in- with Brinley, but I wasn’t sure I thought so, so I left them in.<\/p>\n

I took out Gibson again because it doesn’t work with the middle name Gibb, but it’s possible you’d want to use Gibson as the honor name instead, so then I put it back in. I left in other names I didn’t think worked well with the middle name Gibb, because one person’s “doesn’t work well” is another person’s “works great\/fine,” and because sometimes parents change the middle name choice if they find a first name they love that doesn’t work with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle, My husband and I are expecting our fifth (and we are pretty sure, final) baby in July.\u00a0 Our names are Gordy & Megan, last name sounds like Carman, but with a J. We had a girl name all picked out: Montgomery Adell, we just loved Montgomery and Adell is a family name.\u00a0 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-11127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2Tt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127","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=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11132,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions\/11132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}