{"id":11210,"date":"2015-04-20T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11210"},"modified":"2015-04-20T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:21:09","slug":"baby-boy-mayer-brother-to-gabriel-logan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/04\/20\/baby-boy-mayer-brother-to-gabriel-logan\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Mayer, Brother to Gabriel Logan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

My husband and I are expecting our second little boy in July! We are having a considerably harder time picking a name for him than we did for our first son. Our last name sounds like Mayer. Our first son is named Gabriel Logan (Logan is after my father) and we LOVE it. It fits him perfectly. For our second boy we want to use the middle name McDaniel, which is my maiden name. The perfect first name has eluded us so far. We definitely would like to stay away from any top 10 names. We also HATE “trendy” names like Paxton, Jax, etc.<\/p>\n

Here are some names we like but probably will not use :<\/p>\n

Hayes – very much so overused in our circle of friends.
\nChristian – love this one but we have a cousin who has a son named this. Would that be weird?
\nHudson – this is dad’s middle name and feels special because of that. But neither of us think it feels right for this baby.
\nMarshall – I love this one but Dad isn’t wild about it.
\nLocke – dad doesn’t like this one
\nReid – I do not like the meaning of this name for our baby.
\nCormac – we like this one but it doesn’t seem to fit our style of names ( we worry it would stick out later on down the line if we have more kids)
\nBeau – a close friend is using this one.
\nAlexander – we like this but I want to save Alexandra in hopes of using it for a future baby girl.<\/p>\n

If this little fella had been a girl some of the names we would have considered would have been Reese, Alexandra, and Mia. I feel like we would have definitely picked Reese.<\/p>\n

Should we try to make one of these names work even though none feel right? Or start from square one? Thank you so much for your help!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It would be helpful to know how many children you plan to have. If you’re almost certain you’d have used Reese for a girl, but you don’t want to use the name Alexander because you might want to save Alexandra for a girl, knowing if you plan three children or six would give us some idea of the likelihood of needing to save the name Alexandra. But perhaps another issue is that Alexander is Top 10 for boys.<\/p>\n

People vary on their willingness to repeat family names. I don’t think it would be weird to have your child and your cousin’s child share a name, but I don’t know how your family is about such things or how your cousin would be likely to feel about it. You could broach the topic with the cousin and see what the reaction is. Maybe there’ll be an immediate “Oh, cool!,” or maybe there’ll be a silence and a little wrinkle between the eyebrows, and either way you’ll know more.<\/p>\n

I notice your girl-name style is divided: the long feminine classic Alexandra, the shorter and more modern but equally feminine Mia, and the unisex Reese. Since you like the name Reid but not the meaning of it, I wonder if you would want to consider using Reese (or Rhys, or Reece) for a boy instead.<\/p>\n

Cormac and Beau make me think of Corbin. Corbin Mayer; Corbin McDaniel Mayer; Gabriel and Corbin.<\/p>\n

Hayes makes me think of Blaise. Blaise Mayer; Blaise McDaniel Mayer; Gabriel and Blaise.<\/p>\n

I wonder if you’d like the name Isaac. I like it with Gabriel. Isaac Mayer; Isaac McDaniel Mayer; Gabriel and Isaac.<\/p>\n

I also really like Everett with Gabriel. Everett Mayer; Everett McDaniel Mayer; Gabriel and Everett. That’s probably my top choice.<\/p>\n

Or Elliot. Elliot Mayer; Elliot McDaniel Mayer; Gabriel and Elliot.<\/p>\n

Or August. August Mayer; August McDaniel Mayer; Gabriel and August.<\/p>\n

Or I think Henry would be sweet. Henry Mayer; Henry McDaniel Mayer; Gabriel and Henry.<\/p>\n

Or Calvin. Calvin Mayer; Calvin McDaniel Mayer; Gabriel and Calvin.<\/p>\n

Would your husband like Marcus better than Marshall? Marcus Mayer; Marcus McDaniel Mayer; Gabriel and Marcus.<\/p>\n

Would he like Clark better than Locke? It also sounds somewhat like Cormac from your list. Clark Mayer; Clark McDaniel Mayer; Gabriel and Clark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, My husband and I are expecting our second little boy in July! We are having a considerably harder time picking a name for him than we did for our first son. Our last name sounds like Mayer. Our first son is named Gabriel Logan (Logan is after my father) and we LOVE it. […]<\/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-11210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2UO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210","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=11210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}