{"id":11296,"date":"2015-05-08T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11296"},"modified":"2015-05-08T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:05:05","slug":"baby-girl-rhymes-with-cannon-sister-to-rylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/05\/08\/baby-girl-rhymes-with-cannon-sister-to-rylan\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Rhymes-with-Cannon, Sister to Rylan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n

I would love to have you weigh in on our second daughter’s name. Our first daugher is Rylan, and the longer she’s around, the more I love her name. I tend to like more unique names (nothing in the top 200) and my husband seems to offer up more traditional names, although he really likes our daughter’s name.<\/p>\n

Our last name is typically a first name, and rhymes with Cannon. Therein lies a big problem. Many of the names on my list are surnames, and I feel like we can’t use them because I worry our child will have people calling her by her last name forever.<\/p>\n

Some names that I love and think would work, that my husband has ruled out: Elliott, Ellis, Reese, Brynn, Finley, Hollis, Lane, Margot, and Rowan.<\/p>\n

One other point to make is that our extended family is really big on nicknames – it’s one reason we rule some names out – for instance, I liked Rowan, but I’m not a huge fan of “Ro.”<\/p>\n

Can you and your readers help us come up with some suggestions we haven’t thought of yet?<\/p>\n

Thanks!!!<\/p>\n

J.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

I do think you’re wise to take your surname into account. On the other hand, I wouldn’t suggest choosing names you like less, just to avoid the swapping: even if you choose a commonly-first-name first name, some swapping is likely to occur from time to time.<\/p>\n

It helps that your surname was a very popular first name awhile back (Top 100 from 1968 until 1997), and has plummeted in popularity since then: #922 in 2013, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it out of the Top 1000 when the 2014 data is released any day now. It won’t be an expected name on someone her age—though unfortunately, its recent popularity is what will make it a familiar name to the people handling paperwork. But if someone does switch the first and last names in the paperwork, it seems like a fairly quick and easy fix. And most people will be introduced to your daughter in person, and\/or by first name.<\/p>\n

It would help to know some of the names your husband has suggested. If, for example, he’s suggested Margaret and Elizabeth and Katherine, that would lead me in a different direction than if he’s suggested Jessica and Ashley and Samantha.<\/p>\n

Working with your list of rejected favorites, I see a lot of modern unisex names; those seem like a very good fit with Rylan. Yesterday’s post<\/a> had a similar style, so I wonder if any of those names from the post and comments would be useful.<\/p>\n

For more possibilities to consider, I looked in The Baby Name Wizard<\/a>, especially in the Androgynous and Celtic categories. I didn’t look up each one’s ranking in the Social Security Administration<\/a>, partly because of the hassle but also because even a too-popular name might lead you to a less-popular version: for example, if you notice you like Emerson but it’s too popular, it might make you feel more warmly toward Emeran or Emery. I also left in names that had nicknames: I wasn’t sure if you were avoiding nicknames, or just avoiding unliked<\/em> nicknames.<\/p>\n

Brennan (maybe too rhymey with surname)
\nCamden
\nCampbell
\nCasey
\nDarcy
\nDelaney
\nEllery
\nEllison
\nEmeran
\nEmerson
\nEmery
\nEverly
\nGreer
\nHolland
\nKeegan
\nKellen
\nKieran
\nLennox
\nLocklyn
\nLogan
\nMadigan
\nQuinn
\nRory
\nTamsin
\nTeagan
\nTeague
\nWynn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle, I would love to have you weigh in on our second daughter’s name. Our first daugher is Rylan, and the longer she’s around, the more I love her name. I tend to like more unique names (nothing in the top 200) and my husband seems to offer up more traditional names, although he […]<\/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-11296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2Wc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296","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=11296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11298,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions\/11298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}