{"id":11389,"date":"2015-06-05T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11389"},"modified":"2015-10-27T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:02:03","slug":"baby-boy-webb-brother-to-grayson-two-son-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/06\/05\/baby-boy-webb-brother-to-grayson-two-son-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Webb, Brother to Grayson; Two -son Names?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have another little boy coming soon and are having difficulties choosing a name for him that corresponds with our first boy, Grayson Michael. We cut out all one syllable first names because they sound too choppy with our surname. We just loved the name Grayson for our first and Michael is a family name after my father. Our names are Jordan and Amanda, to give you an idea of the flow of our names. We have cut down our list to two favorites so far that we can both agree on \u2013 Jackson and Maddox.<\/p>\n

If we went with Jackson, then the middle name would be Taylor (my husband\u2019s middle name). Hubby loves this name as he feels it is a strong name for a boy. We would use \u201cJax\u201d as a nickname, as I am not a fan of Jack. If he decides to go by that when he gets older then so be it, but as a childhood nickname I would call him \u201cJax\u201d. I love the name Jackson and it was actually one of my favorites for naming our first, but at that time hubby didn\u2019t love it. Now he has surprised himself by having it as his number one name. My issue with it comes in the ending. Since we already have a Grayson (who actually IS called Grayson and not Gray-which I don\u2019t particularly care for), does Jackson sound too similar to Grayson since they both end in \u2013son? Grayson and Jackson\u2026? Along those same lines, we will likely have another child at some point and if that child ends up being another boy then are we backed into a corner with two boys already ending in \u2013son? I think three \u2013son\u2019s would be too much, but would it sound odd to have one boy with a different name and two so similar? I wouldn\u2019t be worried about it with a girl, but it\u2019s something I think about if we had another boy.<\/p>\n

Maddox is our other finalist and is at the top of my list right now. If I think about the names by themselves, then I probably lean towards Jackson, but I find myself favoring Maddox along with Grayson. If we went with Maddox then the middle name would be Cole. We would use \u201cDex\u201d as a nickname here.<\/p>\n

Other names we have considered:
\nConnor
\nBrodie
\nGage \u2013 one syllable and sounds choppy with Webb
\nGrady \u2013 sounds too similar to Grayson
\nHarrison and Davis \u2013 cousins have already used those names
\nLandry \u2013 bad association for my husband
\nLogan \u2013 I like but hubby has shot down<\/p>\n

Thanks for your consideration and if you had any other suggestions, then we would be happy to hear those as well!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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If I encountered two brothers named Grayson and Jackson, I would notice the matching -son endings, but not in the way I would notice a Grayson and a Grady, or a Grayson and a Jason. It helps that Grey- and Jack- are such different sounds. It also helps that in everyday life they may be Grayson and Jax.<\/p>\n

I think you’re smart to think ahead, though, to what that might mean to you if later you’re naming a third boy. Of course the answer to whether you’d HAVE to name a third child a -son name is no (and I agree with you that three seems like too much—though if you liked the matching, I’d be saying to go for it), but you might feel PRESSURE to do so. If I had to give it my best guess, my guess is that it would feel a little pressurey and weird while you were choosing the name and introducing the baby, but then after that it would be at most something that name hobbyists would notice. No one would think, “Grayson, Jackson, and KEATON? Guess they didn’t want that third child.”<\/p>\n

There are several ways to get past the pressure\/weirdness. One is to choose another name ending in -n or -on, which is why I used Keaton for the example: even though the names don’t have the same full ending, the ending -on helps to keep the third name from standing out.<\/p>\n

Another way is to choose a third surname name. This looks like it will be an easy one to meet: all the names on your list are surname names.<\/p>\n

A third way is to aim for a name of roughly the same length: close to the same number of letters, close to the same number of syllables.<\/p>\n

None of these three things is something I think is necessary, by the way. They’re mostly self-soothing suggestions: that is, if you DO decide to use Jackson this time, and later you’re expecting a third boy and DO feel backed into a corner (especially if someone carelessly\/lightly remarks, “Oh, now you’ll need a third -son name!”), you may these ideas useful for getting yourself out of the corner. It will help even more if you’re calling them Grayson and Jax: Grayson, Jax, and Brodie doesn’t seem odd at all.<\/p>\n

Another option is to use Jackson as the middle name: you still get to use it, but it’s not causing any trouble.<\/p>\n

I notice both finalists have a strong X sound. I wonder if you would like other names with an X sound. I’d look for X itself, but also for -ks and -cs:<\/p>\n

Baxter
\nBrooks
\nEricson
\nFelix
\nLennox
\nMaksim\/Maxim
\nMaxon\/Maxson
\nMaxton
\nPaxton
\nXavier<\/p>\n

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Name update!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

We welcomed Maddox Cole Webb to our family in October. We love the name we decided on for our little boy and thank all of you for your thoughts and suggestions. We had made the decision that we were okay with the similar ending of Jackson, but Maddox just began to roll off our tongue and we fell in love with it! Now we couldn’t imagine him being anything else!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have another little boy coming soon and are having difficulties choosing a name for him that corresponds with our first boy, Grayson Michael. We cut out all one syllable first names because they sound too choppy with our surname. We just loved the name Grayson for our first and Michael is a family name […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2XH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389","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=11389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11690,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions\/11690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}