{"id":11158,"date":"2015-04-08T09:08:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11158"},"modified":"2015-04-08T11:47:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:47:13","slug":"baby-girl-campbell-sister-to-hudson-alfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/04\/08\/baby-girl-campbell-sister-to-hudson-alfie\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Campbell, Sister to Hudson Alfie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi!<\/p>\n

My husband and I are currently battling each other for the winning name for our future baby girl due august 15.<\/p>\n

We have a son already named
\nHudson Alfie Campbell. (Alfie after deceased grandparent) Nicknamed Huggy, Huds, Huggleberry Finn. We choosw Hudson as it was the 1 name on my husband’s list I didnt mind and it grew on me. He viteod all of my names as I wanted him to be called Cohen Frankie (after my father Frank)
\nI love my sons name very much and it suits him. Our next son was going to be Cohen Frankie as my husband now likes the name! But we are having a girl… so…<\/p>\n

My husband is very much set on the names
\nSavannah Lilly Campbell (nickname Savy)
\nIm not loving it, whilst I loved Savannah a while ago, now along with name Hudson I feel its too much. I am not keen on Lilly as it has no family ties.<\/p>\n

I absolutely love Alba Frankie for a girl, my husband likes it but feels Savannah is more feminine without being to girly. I love that Alba is quite uncommon as opppsed to Savannah. I love thats its short and sweet and we can name her Alby.<\/p>\n

Other middle names I like (family names) June and Amy.<\/p>\n

We have always struggled with girls names and we never imagined we would be blessed with a girl as my husbands family is long lines of men only.<\/p>\n

Please help with any suggestions!<\/p>\n

Forever Appreciative! Belinda<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

If it is down to two names, and one of them will be chosen, it seems fair that it would be your choice: last time your husband got his way, so this time it makes sense you would get your way.<\/p>\n

Savannah is indeed significantly more common than Alba: #37 in 2013, while Alba is not in the Top 1000. In that sense, Savannah is more compatible with Hudson, which was at #87 in 2013. But Savannah feels less fresh to me: it has been in the Top 50 since 1996, while Hudson is more recently popular.<\/p>\n

Savannah is compatible with Hudson in that both are familiar place\/river names. Alba is compatible with Hudson in that both are surname names.<\/p>\n

Sometimes when it comes down to the battle between two finalists, both names have to be scrapped. I wonder, are you planning to have more children, so that you’d like to save the name Cohen? If not, maybe we could find a girl name similar to the name you’d agreed on. Rowan, for example, or Bronwyn, or Simone, or Zoe, or Noelle, or Fiona, or Colette, or Corinne, or Cleo.<\/p>\n

Or perhaps tweaking one of the two finalist names would make it more pleasing to both parents. Susanna instead of Savannah, for example, or Alma instead of Alba. Or Avalon, which has a little of both names, and could have Avvie (like Savy) as the nickname. Or Waverly, or Shelby, or Olive, or Vera, or Vienna, or Albany, or Abilene, or Sabina.<\/p>\n

Or I’d suggest Francesca with the nickname Frankie.<\/p>\n

Or June as a first name would be nice: short and sweet, and you could call her Junie or Junebug or Juniper-berry.<\/p>\n

If you both have lists from before you each chose a finalist, I’d go back and look at those again. Maybe one parent will love the other parent’s second-choice name, or maybe there will be more material to work with to find new candidates.<\/p>\n

Or, since you still have approximately four months, I might advise eliminating Savannah and Alba from the running for now, and both concentrate on finding new names to consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi! My husband and I are currently battling each other for the winning name for our future baby girl due august 15. We have a son already named Hudson Alfie Campbell. (Alfie after deceased grandparent) Nicknamed Huggy, Huds, Huggleberry Finn. We choosw Hudson as it was the 1 name on my husband’s list I didnt […]<\/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-11158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2TY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158","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=11158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11161,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions\/11161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}