{"id":11588,"date":"2015-08-31T09:53:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11588"},"modified":"2015-11-21T15:29:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T19:29:16","slug":"baby-girl-streyza-sister-to-georgia-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/08\/31\/baby-girl-streyza-sister-to-georgia-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Streyza, Sister to Georgia Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n

I’m pregnant and due soon with a little girl. We have a 2 year old daughter named Georgia Grace. I kept my last name but the girls will have my husband’s last name which is pronounced Strey-za.<\/p>\n

Like many of your readers, I feel I already used my one and only baby name and now I’m stuck! We had a very hard time getting pregnant with my first daughter so I feel it’s a miracle that I’m pregnant again. This will definitely be our last child (no more $$ for IVF!) My daughter was named after her paternal grandfather (George) and my grandmother (Grace). I really love her name because I think it’s spunky and also classic Americana. We call her Georgie or Georgita so I like that there are good nickname options.<\/p>\n

I ideally would love for this little girl to have an honor name but am struggling to come up with something I love….<\/p>\n

Honor names I’m working with include:<\/p>\n

Rose
\nLouisa (really love but don’t think it works with the last name)
\nFrances
\nSusanna
\nPearl
\nIsabel (way too popular, right?)
\nVirginia (I absolutely love this but can’t have two kids with state names…)
\nSam (We both really love Sam but don’t love Samantha. Is just Sam too weird for a girl?)<\/p>\n

Other names that are on the list:<\/p>\n

Violet
\nScarlett (Husband likes, I don’t)
\nMagnolia
\nMatilda<\/p>\n

Any suggestions or advice you could provide would be wonderful.<\/p>\n

Thanks so much,
\nJennifer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I love the name Louisa, too, and I agree it’s difficult with the surname. I wonder if you would like Eloise? It has similar sounds, but I think it works better with the surname. Eloise Strayza; Georgia and Eloise. But perhaps that’s too much of a change to the honor name.<\/p>\n

I would not use just-Sam for a girl after using Georgia. If you’d used, say, Charlie for your first girl, I would think Sam was a good choice for the second girl. Or if you wanted to do Georgia\/Samantha called George\/Sam, I’d think that was a nice fit. But Sam on its own seems like a style clash with a sister named Georgia.<\/p>\n

Isabel does catch my eye for its popularity, especially with a less-common choice such as Georgia. But I think if you love it, you can definitely use it. Popularity is not what it was in the days of Jennifer. (I was about to go into more detail here, then noticed that YOU are a Jennifer, so you know exactly what I mean. In short, Jennifer in its day was about 4 times as popular as the most popular name today.)<\/p>\n

From your list of honor names, my three top choices with Georgia are Rose, Frances, and Susanna. The only thing that keeps me from throwing my full support behind Rose is that I find it a little difficult to say with the surname. Rose Strayza. I like the repeating Z sound, but not the way the Z-sound in Rose combines with the S-sound of Strayza. Eloise Strayza has a similar issue, but the three-syllable name lessens the effect for me.<\/p>\n

I think my own favorite would be Frances. Georgia and Frances has such an appealing level of vintage sass. But Georgia and Susanna is right on its heels.<\/p>\n

I would be tempted to see if I could find another repeating-initial name, just for fun. For example, I might go for Frances Fay, or Frances Faith, or Frances Fern.<\/p>\n

But probably this urge would be trumped by the urge to use more honor names. Frances Pearl is wonderful. Or Isabel would be appealingly unexpected as a middle name. And I don’t mind the way Rose runs into Strayza if Rose is the middle name.<\/p>\n

From the list of non-honor names, my top choice is Matilda. So many good nicknames. I know a Mathilda who goes by Hildy, and it’s grown on me so much it tempts me to spell the name with the H to add that option.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Swistle and readers: I can’t thank you enough for all your thoughtful responses. We were very surprised with the enthusiasm for Frances! After mulling it over for a few months, it began to sound like a good fit to us as well. Frances Rose was born this week and we are all enamored with the newest member of our family. Thanks again for all the assistance with this stressful naming decision!!\u00a0 Here’s a picture of our dear little lady.<\/p>\n

Best,
\nJennifer<\/p>\n

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Hi Swistle, I’m pregnant and due soon with a little girl. We have a 2 year old daughter named Georgia Grace. I kept my last name but the girls will have my husband’s last name which is pronounced Strey-za. Like many of your readers, I feel I already used my one and only baby 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-11588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-30U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588","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=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11733,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions\/11733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}