{"id":11656,"date":"2015-10-02T10:48:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11656"},"modified":"2016-01-30T20:55:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:55:19","slug":"baby-girl-kielstra-sister-to-rylah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/10\/02\/baby-girl-kielstra-sister-to-rylah\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Kielstra, Sister to Rylah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Evening,
\nSo recently my cousin mentioned your blog and how you help with coming up with names. I am at a total loss as to even where to begin. I have looked through countless names and well there are many names I like either my husband veto’s them or I feel they don’t go well with our other daughter’s name. We have a daughter already and her name is Rylah Mae Kielstra. It was a name that my 95 year old grandma gave me and I immediately fell in love with the name. It is unique but not yet so different that its hard to pronounce. I am finding it very hard to come up with another unique name that works with Rylah’s name. I can’t even give you one name that my husband and I both agree on. Our baby girl will be born this January so I still have time. I am thinking her middle name will be Kathryn as that is my mother’s middle name. The problem is a need a simpler first name as Kathryn Kielstra is already a mouth full. Would love some advice and help with a few names that you might think would work for our new addition.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,
\nHeidi Kielstra<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The name Rylah makes me think of two groups of names: the Ryan\/Ryleigh\/Kyle\/Kylie group, and the Isla\/Lila\/Layla\/Lyla\/Mila\/Ella group. It reminds me most of names such as Kayla and Kyla, which combine a strong long-vowel first syllable with a gentler feminine ending.<\/p>\n

I would suggest doing that again: taking two sounds that are not normally paired but COULD be. Some of the combinations will be names that already exist and are common (Ev + lyn = Evelyn), some will be amusing mismatches or the wrong style, and some can be added to the Maybe list.<\/p>\n

Or it might be easier to find a name that already exists, and change part of it, the way you could have started with Riley or Lilah or Kyla to get Rylah. Are there any names you already like, but feel are the wrong style or too common? For example, if you said you loved the name Emily but it didn’t coordinate with the style of Rylah, I might suggest Emlyn or Emryn or Ellery. Or if you loved Avery but it was too common, I might suggest Ayven or Averly or Avaleigh.<\/p>\n

But check the Social Security Administration’s data base<\/a> for name popularity: sometimes a combination of two appealing sounds can be exactly the sort of thing everyone else is also noticing and using. And check alternate spellings: for example, for the name Rylah I’d look for Rilah, Ryla, Rila, etc.<\/p>\n

You could also poke around in that data base for seldom-used names. If you follow the link in the previous paragraph and then click on “Background Information” and then click on “Beyond the Top 1000,” you can download a list of all the names used at least five times each year. Starting at the rare end of the list, I found possibilities such as Zaryn, Tamlyn, Nolyn, Mavery, Graylynn, Emrie, Cambrey, Britlyn. (Again, check alternate spellings: sometimes I’d see a name and think, “Oh! That’s different!”—and then realize it was just a different way to spell a popular name.)<\/p>\n

If you can, I’d wait to choose the middle name. That is, are there other candidates you could use (your mother’s first name, another relative’s name), if you finally find a name the two of you agree on and doesn’t work with Kathryn? When it is very challenging for two parents to find a name they agree on, I suggest removing as many limitations as possible.<\/p>\n

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

Thanks everyone for their wonderful suggestions! We decided on Brielle!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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