{"id":11578,"date":"2015-08-27T21:27:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T01:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2015-09-01T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:22:00","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-miles-with-a-w-sibling-to-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/08\/27\/baby-girl-or-boy-miles-with-a-w-sibling-to-ruby\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Miles-with-a-W, Sibling to Ruby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle, we have about 6 weeks until we meet our little one and we can’t seem to settle on a middle name. Here are some specifics.<\/p>\n

We don’t know if it’s a boy or girl. We do have a girl name selected that we love – Mabry Elizabeth.
\nWe have selected a first name – Franklin but can’t quite settle on a middle name. We would call him Frank or Frankie.
\nWe already have a 16 mos old girl named Ruby Sue.
\nOur last name rhymes with Miles but starts with a W.<\/p>\n

Here’s the problem with middle names for Franklin – traditional names like George, David, Michael, etc all seem too presidential. So we played around with more “trendy” names like Ames, Adler, Finn, etc but they feel like we’re trying too hard, if that makes sense. There must be something in the middle but we can’t quite come up with anything.<\/p>\n

To give you background on how we picked our daughter Ruby’s middle name, it is my mother in law’s middle name. And we absolutely love the name Ruby Sue but we don’t have any other family members’ names that seem to sound right with Franklin.<\/p>\n

Any advice you have would be so helpful.<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hm. I see what you mean. I think, though, that some of your examples already successfully avoid the issues. Michael doesn’t feel presidential to me at all, even though George does. And even George, which because of two recent presidents and the famous first president SHOULD be UTTERLY presidential, also makes me think of Prince George, George Michael, Boy George, George Clooney, George Takei, etc.<\/p>\n

Franklin Michael seems like a very nice choice. I think you could get a similar effect with any traditional name that doesn’t immediately evoke a president. I had Franklin James in mind, for example, without even realizing that we’ve had SIX presidents named James. The name James is so diluted by many associations, it doesn’t smack of presidency the way, say, Clinton or Lincoln might. But there are also a whole bunch of other traditional names not used by a president at all:<\/p>\n

Franklin Alex
\nFranklin Alexander
\nFranklin Caleb
\nFranklin Charles
\nFranklin Daniel
\nFranklin Edward
\nFranklin Isaac
\nFranklin Jacob
\nFranklin Joel
\nFranklin Joseph
\nFranklin Joshua
\nFranklin Lucas
\nFranklin Mark
\nFranklin Matthew
\nFranklin Nathaniel
\nFranklin Nicholas
\nFranklin Patrick
\nFranklin Paul
\nFranklin Peter
\nFranklin Philip
\nFranklin Robert
\nFranklin Samuel
\nFranklin Stephen
\nFranklin Timothy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle, we have about 6 weeks until we meet our little one and we can’t seem to settle on a middle name. Here are some specifics. We don’t know if it’s a boy or girl. We do have a girl name selected that we love – Mabry Elizabeth. We have selected a first 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-30K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","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=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11593,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions\/11593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}