{"id":12112,"date":"2016-05-25T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12112"},"modified":"2016-09-03T15:07:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T19:07:19","slug":"baby-girl-dejean-sister-to-audrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2016\/05\/25\/baby-girl-dejean-sister-to-audrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl DeJean, Sister to Audrey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

Just stumbled upon your website and I love it! I am hoping you can help us! My husband and I are expecting our second baby girl in August. Our first baby girl, who will be 2 years old (also in August), is named Audrey June after both of our grandmothers. Our last name is DeJean (the “de” part is pronounced like day and the “jean” part is pronounced like Jeanne – kind of rhymes with pawn). We really like traditional names. We are not into super modern names or alternative spellings. Our list of names we both like is as follows-<\/p>\n

Everett (nickname of Evie) Louise as a middle name
\nOlive
\nAmelia
\nElouise
\nBeatrice
\nColette
\nFrankie (after my dad who is Frank and would have named a son Frank if he hadn’t had all girls!)<\/p>\n

We have had some very strong reactions to the name Everett for a girl- some people love it and others despise it passionately! It was\/is our front runner but I am having second thoughts after learning of this! I love Everett for a girl. Something about the -ett ending makes it feminine sounding to me. Its traditional and old fashioned but using it for a girl rather than a boy gives it uniqueness. My husband loves the nickname Evie, although we have noticed how popular it is recently.<\/p>\n

I have always loved Olive but am not sure if it’s too “out there.”<\/p>\n

My husband is hesitant about Frankie. He thinks it might not be easy for every personality type to pull off.<\/p>\n

I’m almost to the point of scratching Amelia off the list because of its popularity and the two A names.<\/p>\n

If I could have seen into the future and knew we would be having another girl, I may have saved the name June to use as this baby’s first name. But it’s already been used as Audrey’s middle name so that’s that!<\/p>\n

My husband has an interesting family name and if we ever have a boy he will pass that name on. He goes by his middle name- Darr. If we have a boy in the future, he would go by Darr as well. We are planning on having 3 children in total but we will see how number 2 goes first!<\/p>\n

Hoping you can help! Let me know if you need any more information! Thank you :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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If this were your first girl and most of the names on your list were names traditionally used for boys, I would say Everett was a great option: the feminine nickname Evie makes it flexible, and the -et ending is familiar in names currently used for girls (Charlotte, Scarlet, Violet). Because this is your second girl, and because your first girl has a traditional girls-only name, and because almost every other girl name on your list is a girls-only name, I’d say Everett is an outlier for your style: you both like it, but it doesn’t fit with everything else you like.<\/p>\n

In cases where parents have an outlier name they’d like to use, I generally suggest using it as a middle name, or finding a name that is similar to the outlier name but falls within the parents’ usual style. For the name Everett, this would mean names such as Harriet, Margaret, Evelyn, Scarlett, Violet, Charlotte, Vera, Everly, Vivian, Genevieve, Greta, Ivy, Veronica, etc.<\/p>\n

From your list, Eloise (spelled the usual way, even if you are honoring a Louise) is my favorite option, with Beatrice and Colette tied for a very close second.<\/p>\n

Because you would like to use the name June, I might look for names that seemed similar to it. “Similar” is very subjective, but to me that means names such as May, Ruth, Lucy, Juliet, Julia, Ruby, Rose. (Normally I would also say Jane and Jean and Joan, but those don’t seem ideal with the surname.)<\/p>\n

I share your husband’s hesitations about the name Frankie. I would use Francesca with the nickname Frankie; this gives her options is she turns out not to be the Frankie type. [Ooo, commenter Liz mentioned Frances, and I like that even better.]<\/p>\n

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

Thank you all for your thoughtful input! Colette Louise made her debut a few weeks ago and we couldn’t be more in love with both her and her name. Thank you, again!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! Just stumbled upon your website and I love it! I am hoping you can help us! My husband and I are expecting our second baby girl in August. Our first baby girl, who will be 2 years old (also in August), is named Audrey June after both of our grandmothers. Our last 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-39m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112","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=12112"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12305,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions\/12305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}