{"id":11857,"date":"2016-02-02T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11857"},"modified":"2016-02-15T21:49:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T01:49:18","slug":"baby-girl-wendelborn-sister-to-olivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2016\/02\/02\/baby-girl-wendelborn-sister-to-olivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Wendelborn, Sister to Olivia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our first was hard to name. We had 5 names, all of which my husband loved, but none felt ‘right.’ Once she was born both of us just KNEW she was Olivia. Even though it was neither of our top names.<\/p>\n

Hoping for similar success with our second girl, but we can’t even get a list of 5. My last name is Wendelborn. Olivia is Olivia Park (a family name, and its short, Olivia is a lot of syllables).<\/p>\n

We have the following but none feel right:<\/p>\n

Peyton (I dont like boy\/girl names, but my husband loves it).
\nSloan(e) (too manly? we also like it without the e so people dont say “sloan-ey” but everyone says the e makes it a girl)
\nAddilynn (I dont love)
\nElla (too spanish?)
\nEmma
\nLucy (this and Emma above seem kind of boring)
\nSaylor (I love it, but my husband doesn’t, and I”m scare to commit to an unusual name if he isn’t on board)
\nRowan (same as Saylor, means little red head, and would only do it if she has red hair (very likely) but might need another red head name)
\nAmelia (family name, lots of good nicknames, I dont love Amelia, but as far as family names Amelia and Olivia were sisters)
\nClaire
\nCaroline (this and Claire, pretty but a little boring like Emma, Ella, etc)
\nCharlotte (pretty name, but no quick nicknames when talking to her, we call Olivia “livi” when we need a quick name)<\/p>\n

We’re all over the place. Help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I was curious about the usage rates for Sloan\/Sloane. Here’s what we have for 2014:<\/p>\n

Sloan: 336 F, 72 M
\nSloane: 874 F, 6 M<\/p>\n

So while it does look as if parents opting to use the name for a boy strongly prefer the Sloan spelling, and parents opting to use the name for a girl somewhat prefer the Sloane spelling, both spellings are used for girls and I think you could take your pick. I’m hoping we have a commenter who has experience with the Sloane spelling; I wouldn’t have expected people to pronounce it Sloan-ey, but I haven’t had experience with it to know.<\/p>\n

The name Sloan(e) doesn’t seem manly to me; I’m familiar with it as a name used mostly for girls. It is quite a change from the syllables\/style of Olivia. I wonder if it would make a good middle name? It seems nicely similar to Park. Something like Olivia Park and Amelia Sloan is pleasing. But perhaps you have another good family name for the middle.<\/p>\n

I wonder if you’d like Fiona or Sophia or Josephine? They all remind me of the sounds of Sloan and Rowan.<\/p>\n

With the sister name Olivia, my favorite name for a possible redhead is Rose. Olivia and Rose. So pretty. And Rose Wendelborn sounds spectacular to me: I want it for my own name.<\/p>\n

I love Olivia and Amelia together, and I love that the namesakes were also sisters.<\/p>\n

Olivia and Charlotte are great together, and a quick nickname for Charlotte is Lottie. Livi and Lottie! Charming.<\/p>\n

Ella doesn’t feel Spanish to me. I like it in style with Olivia, but it feels maybe a little L-heavy with it: Olivia and Ella feels like I am making a lot of the same sounds, except that Ella has fewer of them. I also find Ella Wendelborn a little difficult to say.<\/p>\n

I like Olivia and Claire together, too. I like the way they LOOK together, too. Not that that’s important, just appealing.<\/p>\n

If I were in charge of your list of five, this is how I’d do it:<\/p>\n

Sophia
\nAmelia
\nCharlotte
\nClaire
\nFiona<\/p>\n

plus Rose as a bonus name, if she’s a redhead or even if she’s not.<\/p>\n

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

First of all, you have no idea how much your advice and your reader’s advice helped. Ella was ruled out pretty quickly – Charlotte was a top contender, and Sloane we still loved, but it never really ‘went’ with Olivia. Even though we didn’t take everyone’s suggestions, it took us from ‘all over the place’ to a handful of solid name suggestions.<\/p>\n

Ms. Emma Alexandra Wendelborn was born last Tuesday. With her strawberry blonde hair, and big sister Olivia’s love for the name Emma on our list, it fit her perfectly.<\/p>\n

Thanks again for all of your help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our first was hard to name. We had 5 names, all of which my husband loved, but none felt ‘right.’ Once she was born both of us just KNEW she was Olivia. Even though it was neither of our top names. Hoping for similar success with our second girl, but we can’t even get a […]<\/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-11857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-35f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857","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=11857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11893,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions\/11893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}