{"id":11611,"date":"2015-09-10T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2015-09-10T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:07:18","slug":"baby-girl-________-sophia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/09\/10\/baby-girl-________-sophia\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl ________ Sophia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

My boyfriend and I are expecting a baby girl at the very end of November. We have *a* name picked out that we would\/could use as either first or middle name, but my best friend\u2019s daughter shares the same name, so I feel like we have to use it as a middle name, which is proving very difficult to find a smooth first name. Anyways, the name we have settled on is Sophia. It\u2019s his grandmother\u2019s name, so that\u2019s the only reason I considered it (not because I don\u2019t like it\u2026 I love it, but due to my bff\u2019s daughter\u2019s name).<\/p>\n

My grandmothers\u2019 names are Natalie Grace and Elizabeth (something, apparently she has kind of a goofy middle name and won\u2019t share it\u2026) and I\u2019d like to try and come up with some combination of using grandmothers\u2019 names for our little nugget.
\nI like Natalie Sophia Grace (having 2 middle names) but I feel like it\u2019s a mouthful, and I\u2019m not super sold on Natalie as a first name (and my 2nd cousin\u2019s 1st name is Natalie).<\/p>\n

I *really* like the name Nora Sophia, but it\u2019s a mouthful of vowels especially with the surname, and I\u2019m not sure I like that, either\u2026<\/p>\n

My original pick for a name (before my boyfriend decided to pitch in) was Quorra (like from the movie Tron\u2026 It\u2019s pronounced like \u201cCora\u201d) and a middle name Madeline (Maddelynn pronunciation) but he\u2019s not sold on that name, either. Quorra Madeline.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like all the trendy names, and I definitely want a girly sort of spunk. I don\u2019t want her to have the same name as 20 other kids in her class, I want something a little more original, without being too \u201cout there.\u201d We are both of German heritage, and I also Irish.<\/p>\n

Please help!!
\nThank you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don’t think Natalie Sophia Grace is too much of a mouthful. It would be a long name if you were planning to say the whole thing each time, but with few exceptions middle names tend to gracefully disappear after the birth announcements are sent out. On the first day of class, the teacher won’t call out “Natalie Sophia Grace Surname?,” she’ll just say “Natalie Surname?”<\/p>\n

My only hesitation with the name is that it uses the first AND middle of one of your grandmothers, and nothing from the other. I don’t think there’s any reason honor names have to be evenly distributed, but if this is your first child, and if you’d like to have more children later, I wonder if this name problem could be solved by saving some of the grandmother names for possible future daughters, instead of using Natalie, Sophia, and Grace on the very first child. It’s rare to have such a fashionable assortment to work with.<\/p>\n

I think Nora Sophia also works beautifully. It’s a matter of personal preference, but I do like the “two names ending in -a” sound; it sounds pleasingly Italian to me.<\/p>\n

Quorra catches my attention with two possible concerns. The first is that in U.S. English, “qu” is almost always pronounced “kw”; the most likely pronunciation of Quorra would be Kwora. It seems like it would get tiresome to keep making that correction.<\/p>\n

The second possible concern is future sibling names: that name is a difficult act to follow. It probably seems hard enough right now to name ONE child, but I highly recommend sketching out a casual list of names you might want to use in the future, and seeing if they go well with your current options. If you use Quorra for a first child, can you think of sibling names you’d like to use with that? If not, the spelling Cora may capture some of what you like about the name Quorra, while still coordinating well with names such as Natalie, Sophia, Nora, and Grace.<\/p>\n

Another similar possibility is Clara.<\/p>\n

I wonder if you’d like the name Madigan. It’s similar in sound to Natalie and Madelynn, but is currently very unusual. And it ends in a consonant sound, which would help to break up the vowels of Sophia Surname.<\/p>\n

Nora and Quorra make me wonder if you’d like Flora or Maura or Georgia or Rory. Or Morgan. Or Corinne. Or Laurel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! My boyfriend and I are expecting a baby girl at the very end of November. We have *a* name picked out that we would\/could use as either first or middle name, but my best friend\u2019s daughter shares the same name, so I feel like we have to use it as a middle 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-11611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-31h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611","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=11611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11613,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions\/11613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}