{"id":11614,"date":"2015-09-14T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11614"},"modified":"2015-09-14T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:41:11","slug":"baby-girl-moorhouse-charlie-rose-ella-rose-or-ruby-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/09\/14\/baby-girl-moorhouse-charlie-rose-ella-rose-or-ruby-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Moorhouse: Charlie Rose, Ella Rose, or Ruby Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi<\/p>\n

We are due to have our first baby, a little girl on 9th October.<\/p>\n

We have decided on Rose as her middle name after husband’s mother, Rosemary.
\nLast name is Moorhouse.<\/p>\n

We have narrowed down first name to:
\nCharlie
\nElla
\nRuby<\/p>\n

We want a 2 syllable name preferably and it’s hard cos there are lots of girls names in the family taken!!<\/p>\n

My sister has 3 girls already:
\nLydia Anne (great-grandmother \/ mum names) age 4
\nEvie May (May from other great-grandmother) age 2.5
\nMacy Ella, also age 2.5 (twins)<\/p>\n

Plus in the family there is:
\nWillow Kate (6mths)
\nSienna May (2)
\nIvy Lyn (6)
\nStella (born stillborn a year ago)<\/p>\n

We also liked Emme & Audrey (but not with Moorhouse) and used to like Isabella and Charlotte (but now too popular)<\/p>\n

Hubby favors Charlie and I am torn as I don’t want her to always be mistaken for a boy. Hubby doesn’t like Ruby Rose as its the Australian actor\/model who isn’t a great role model…<\/p>\n

So we are thinking Charlie or Ella but I’m so confused!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

I do think of the actor Ruby Rose<\/a>, though the first thing I notice is the two shades of red.<\/p>\n

My immediate association with Charlie Rose is the TV show Charlie Rose<\/a> and its host Charlie Rose<\/a>. I’ve never seen the show, and might not be able to pick the host out of a line-up, yet the association sprang to my mind.<\/p>\n

I don’t think the associations need to rule out the names, since many middle names go unused—but it’s so fun to say Ruby Rose and Charlie Rose and Ella Rose, I could see this middle name being used more than some. Also, since it’s an honor name, it would be pleasing to draw attention to it. Also, it sounds as if you’d rather not use Charlie Rose and your husband would rather not use Ruby Rose, but both of you like Ella Rose. So from your list of finalists, the option that seems most pleasing to me is Ella Rose.<\/p>\n

Another possibility is to go back to Charlotte, and use Charlie as the nickname. This solves two problems: the Charlie Rose association, and your concern that she will be always mistaken for a boy. It increases the popularity of the name somewhat, but I’m not sure using Charlie to decrease popularity is a worthwhile trade: naming a girl Jenny 40 years ago wouldn’t have kept her separate from the popularity of the name Jennifer. And using Charlotte gives her more possibilities: she can use Charlie, or Lottie, or Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Another possibility is to use the original name Rosemary, instead of Rose: Charlie Rosemary, Ruby Rosemary, Ella Rosemary. This has three benefits: one, it significantly reduces the associations with Charlie Rose and Ruby Rose; two, it increases the honor to your husband’s mother; and three, Rose is a very popular middle name choice right now, and one of your preferences is for a less popular name. All three options feel fresher to me with Rosemary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi We are due to have our first baby, a little girl on 9th October. We have decided on Rose as her middle name after husband’s mother, Rosemary. Last name is Moorhouse. We have narrowed down first name to: Charlie Ella Ruby We want a 2 syllable name preferably and it’s hard cos there are […]<\/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-11614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-31k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614","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=11614"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11622,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions\/11622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}