{"id":11471,"date":"2015-07-09T06:08:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T10:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11471"},"modified":"2015-07-09T06:11:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T10:11:51","slug":"baby-girl-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/07\/09\/baby-girl-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle,
\nWe’re expecting our first child, a girl, this September. Our last name sounds like ‘Baker’, and the current top contender name is Jacqueline Liliana ‘Baker’. I have two concerns about the middle name:
\n1. Is this too long when combined with the first name (number of syllables, not number of letters) and 2. Is it too frilly?<\/p>\n

While we’re pretty certain on the first name, other middle name choices include Wren (would this elide too much with the ‘soft’ ending of the first name?), Maeve, Alice, or Iris. All of these potential middles are shorter, although I’m uncertain about the rhythm of a 2-syllable middle with a 2-syllable last name. I’d like to avoid more common (ie Ann, Lynn, Grace, Rose) middle names.<\/p>\n

Thoughts?
\nAnonymous mother with a 9 syllable full name<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It doesn’t seem too long to me—but then, I gave my daughter an 11-syllable full name. I did worry a bit when we chose it, but only 6 of the syllables are her first\/last, and those are the only ones that most people encounter. People won’t have to say Jacqueline Liliana Baker every time they address your daughter: they’ll just say Jacqueline Baker, or just Jacqueline, or just Jackie or just Jax if she uses a nickname.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t seem too frilly to me, either, for similar reasons. Jacqueline doesn’t strike me as a frilly name, nor does Baker. The only frills are with Liliana, and that’s tucked into the middle. The total frill-level of the name seems well within reason.<\/p>\n

If you decide against Liliana, my favorite from the other candidates is Jacqueline Iris Baker (I do like the 2-syllable middle name with the 2-syllable surname). But I think you can pick the middle name you like best, without worrying too much about rhythm or length: rhythm\/length are so governed by personal preference, there aren’t any particular guidelines to shoot for other than “Do we like it?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle, We’re expecting our first child, a girl, this September. Our last name sounds like ‘Baker’, and the current top contender name is Jacqueline Liliana ‘Baker’. I have two concerns about the middle name: 1. Is this too long when combined with the first name (number of syllables, not number of letters) and 2. […]<\/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-11471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2Z1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471","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=11471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11475,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions\/11475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}