{"id":11901,"date":"2016-02-18T09:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11901"},"modified":"2016-02-18T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:42:43","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2016\/02\/18\/baby-girl-or-boy-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello there,<\/p>\n

We would love your help! My husband and I are having the hardest time choosing a boys name. We do not know the gender, but love the girls names we have picked out. Our due date is March 1st, but we may get induced early the week of February 22nd. I am starting to worry we will leave with “baby boy Clark” if we don’t hustle to find something we love!<\/p>\n

Girl names we love:
\nEllie Brave
\nCosima Wilde<\/p>\n

We love the idea of using Word names as middle names. We also would love the name to have a strong meaning. For example, Ellie is “shining bright” and Cosima is “Order, beauty.” Overall, we also tend to lean towards gender neutral names. We plan to have 2-4 children, but this is the first!<\/p>\n

Other girl names we love:
\nWinslet
\nImogen
\nNora
\nSophie
\nWilla
\nZoey
\nThea<\/p>\n

Boy names we have considered:
\nWatson (Wat)
\nIndiana (Indie)
\nOliver (Ollie)
\nBeau
\nDeclan
\nEllis\/Elliot\/Elias (Eli)
\nEzekiel (Zeke)
\nDax<\/p>\n

One struggle we are having \u2013 we love short nickname type names, but with a surname like “Clark” they may sound too abrupt?
\nOliver Watson is the most up to date we are considering, but my husband doesn’t love Oliver and his family doesn’t care much for Watson.<\/p>\n

Thank you!!
\nAll the best,
\nJess<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

My favorites from your boy-name list are:<\/p>\n

Oliver Clark (though using Ollie may rule out using Ellie later)
\nElliot Clark (may rule out using Ellie later)
\nEzekiel Clark
\nElias Clark (may rule out using Ellie later)<\/p>\n

Would you want to consider Brave and Wilde as middle names for boys as well, or only for girls? A few more suggestions for word middle names with nice meanings:<\/p>\n

Able
\nJustice
\nLoyal
\nMerit
\nPax
\nSterling<\/p>\n

Because the first Indiana who comes to mind is Indiana Jones, and Jones\/Smith\/Clark share the Short Common Surnames area of my brain, the name Indiana Clark has an amusing sound to me. This could be a downside or an upside: it might get rather wearisome to have people keep referring to it, it might be quite fun to say “Indiana Clark and the Last Bite of Dinner!” or “Indiana Clark and the School Bus of Doom!” or what have you.<\/p>\n

Beau Clark and Dax Clark sound a little choppy to me, but not deal-breakingly choppy. When I say them aloud, Beau Clark gets a little blended, but not to anything that creates a bad\/embarrassing\/confusing situation; and Dax Clark is a little hard for me to say.<\/p>\n

The repeated CL in Declan Clark feels a little awkward\/choppy when I say it aloud. But again, nothing at deal-breaker levels.<\/p>\n

How do you feel about sibling-name coordination? Parents are all over the spectrum on this one, from caring very much to not caring at all. If you DO like sibling names to coordinate, experimenting with putting names on your list into pairs and groups can have the bonus of helping you narrow down a larger list. Pick one boy name from your favorites list, and then try it out with the names from your girl-name list, and with other names from your boy-name list. Are there any names that, if you used them, would cause you to cross out other favorites? For example, maybe you wouldn’t want two siblings with one-syllable names, or wouldn’t want to combine a one-syllable name with a four-syllable name, or wouldn’t want to repeat an initial.<\/p>\n

Thinking ahead to future siblings is also a good idea to avoid accidentally ruling out names: for example, if you would FAR rather use Ellie for a girl than Ollie or Eli for a boy, that may knock Oliver, Ellis, Elliot, and Elias out of the running. If you love Watson but wouldn’t want to repeat an initial, you can think ahead to whether you’d most like to use Watson or Winslet or Willa.<\/p>\n

I wonder if you would like the name Felix. It has sounds and style similar to other names on your list, and it means happy and lucky. A name like Felix Sterling Clark would be pretty smashing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello there, We would love your help! My husband and I are having the hardest time choosing a boys name. We do not know the gender, but love the girls names we have picked out. Our due date is March 1st, but we may get induced early the week of February 22nd. I am starting […]<\/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-11901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-35X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901","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=11901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11902,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901\/revisions\/11902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}