{"id":12353,"date":"2016-10-11T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T14:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12353"},"modified":"2016-10-12T05:50:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T09:50:36","slug":"baby-girl-wrightman-sister-to-bennett-matthew-and-annabelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2016\/10\/11\/baby-girl-wrightman-sister-to-bennett-matthew-and-annabelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Wrightman, Sister to Bennett, Matthew, and Annabelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

You helped us with our second boy<\/a>, Matthew William Joseph Wrightman in we loved William but didn’t want to honor grandpa bill. We are now on our fourth baby and hoping you can guide us with your expertise.<\/p>\n

We have Bennett Patrick- Bennett we loved , Patrick after my late mother, Patricia, his name still makes my heart skip a beat. Name we like plus honor name.<\/p>\n

Matthew William Joseph- after grandma Martha (a stretch, I know), grandpa bill and grandpa Joe. I love that we honored all living grandparents yet his name doesn’t quite seem original enough for the entity that is my son Matthew- who at 2 years, declared that his name is actually “Matthias”. If I could go back, I would name him Maxwell Theodore and call him Wells or Teddy. Something a little more spunky. My “dear” unmarried childless sister in law called dibs on Theodore many years ago after their grandpa Ted. This will not deter us now that we are on our fourth child and she remains single and childless with no prospects.<\/p>\n

Annabelle Joy- her name is like magic to me. She is every bit as wonderful, beautiful, delicate and joyful as her name. It is perfect.
\nAnn is after my and my mother’s middle name and joy has special meaning to me.<\/p>\n

Our next daughter will have Ann in her name or middle name, and\/or Joy as a middle name, ideally. I love this connection and it is important to me.<\/p>\n

We love and hope to find a double letter name- can we do this and fulfill everything I love and want in a name to make it magical. ?<\/p>\n

I have always liked Lillianna, Lilly for a nickname. The double letters and loveliness is there, with Ann, Lillianna Joy is nice. I worry it with end up in the same compartment as Matthew to me, a wonderful, strong name that my husband and I agree on, but a bit of eh factor as time moves on, because it is common and there are a ton of other Lillys. Thoughts?<\/p>\n

I love the nickname Liv- can we make this happen with double letters?
\nI adore Olivia but feel like it is so popular. Husband loves Olivia as well.
\nWe call Annabelle: Belle, Bells, Bellsies or Annabelle.
\nI love Belle and Liv, Belles and Livs, Bellsies and Livvies, pitter patter goes my heart. We may spell it Livvy or Livvie if that’s what we go by.<\/p>\n

My thoughts are:
\nLivianna- Livianna Joy. Bell and Liv
\nHusband says this is a made up name.
\nI also love Livia as a shortened name.<\/p>\n

I love it because it has Ann, double letters, the nickname Liv and can have Joy as a middle name like Annabelle.<\/p>\n

Annalivia
\nHusband says this is even more made up.
\nAgain, love Liv, Ann, double letters plus Joy as middle name
\nAnnabelle and Annalivia- too much? Not enough? Belle and Livvy<\/p>\n

Husband would rather do Olivia to get Liv as nickname but it’s way to popular and no double letters.<\/p>\n

Other names I love:
\nSeraphina no double letters, husband thinks its too much,
\nLivianna Seraphine?<\/p>\n

Caroline- going down the ranks for me lately<\/p>\n

Everly- adorable but getting too popular, husband says made up, no double letters<\/p>\n

Thoughts? Opinions? Ideas? We would possibly want one more after this baby. Next boy would be Maxwell Theodore.
\nThoughts on Lilly vs Livvy?<\/p>\n

Katie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I would like to start by discussing what will happen if you do have one more child after this baby and the next child is another girl. If you have two girls who have Ann in their names and Joy as a middle name, will you feel the same has to be done for the third girl? And if so, are you able to come up with a third name that meets that requirement? My feeling is that you could get away with Annabelle and Lillianna, or Annabelle and Livianna, but that it could be somewhere on the difficult-to-impossible spectrum to come up with a third -ann- name that didn’t seem like too much of a duplicate. Annabelle, Lillianna, and Livianna? No. Annabelle, Lillianna, and Annalivia? No. I hear you when you say it is important to you to use Ann and Joy for both daughters, but I feel the risk is high of getting truly stuck.<\/p>\n

If this is a risk you’re willing to take, then onward we go. Lillianna seems great to me. I like Livianna even better, because it makes your heart beat faster and you love the nickname, and because it introduces a new sound. It doesn’t strike my ear as “made up”-sounding, I think because Anna- and -anna mash-up names are so traditional and common.<\/p>\n

I would not personally want to do another Anna- name. Annabelle and Annalivia seem way too close. If that doesn’t bother you, and you’d like us to continue looking for more Anna- names, I would caution us before we begin about the potentially sensitive nature of Anna+L names<\/a>, especially if the N is not doubled. Because you specifically want double-letter names, it is less of an issue—but I would still feel wary when playing with names such as Annaleigh.<\/p>\n

Annalynn
\nAnnamaria
\nAnnarosa
\nAnnasophia
\nAnnastasia
\nAnneliese\/Annalise
\nAnnika
\nAnnora<\/p>\n

Options that don’t start with Ann-:<\/p>\n

Adrianna
\nAlanna
\nArianna
\nAubrianna
\nAudrianna
\nAvianna
\nEllianna (repeats -ell- as well as -anna-)
\nEvianna
\nGianna
\nGiovanna
\nIllianna
\nJoanna
\nJulianna
\nLianna
\nLucianna
\nOlivianna
\nOrianna
\nSavannah
\nSusanna
\nVivianna<\/p>\n

My top choice from this list is Vivianna. Vivvy\/Vivi is similar to the Livvy you like.<\/p>\n

A sampling of names with double letters but without the -ann-, just in case:<\/p>\n

Amaryllis
\nBrynna
\nCamellia
\nCamille
\nCharlotte
\nClarissa
\nCorinna\/Corinne
\nEmmaline\/Emmeline
\nGemma
\nJuliette
\nLillian
\nLinnea
\nLivinnia
\nLucienne
\nLucille
\nMarietta
\nMarilla
\nMillicent
\nMirren
\nMolly
\nPhilippa
\nPriscilla
\nRomilly
\nStella (repeats the -ell-)
\nVivienne
\nWilla
\nWillemina\/Willamena
\nWillow
\nWinnifred<\/p>\n

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On another note, I think it would be a kindness to leave the name Theodore behind, if you can bear to. I realize it’s annoying when someone who may not even have a child calls dibs on a name, but in this case I would measure your fortune and happiness (marriage, buckets of children) against hers (no relationship prospects so far, childless so far), and consider leaving her something to hold on to. If she’s truly a pill, I can see the temptation; and I don’t believe in dibs on names, especially if it means a grandfather may go unhonored—but there is something a little sad here that is bringing out my feelings of mercy. Perhaps you could use Dorothea or Theodora as a middle name for a daughter, honoring the grandfather without claiming the name. Or perhaps you could use Theodore as the middle for a son, but with a word to her about how you are remembering she wants to use it as a first name, and that you think it’s lovely to use the name more than once.<\/p>\n

[Edited to add:]<\/strong> On re-reading, I see I have misunderstood the question. I was thinking the plan was to use another Ann name for the first name, plus Joy again for the middle; the actual plan is to use Ann and\/or<\/strong> Joy for the first or middle. In that case, my top choice is to use Joy as the middle, and not use a first name with Ann in it. This also removes the risk of getting stuck with a third daughter’s name: it would not be difficult to use Joy as the middle name again.<\/p>\n

My top favorite choices:<\/p>\n

Vivienne; Annabelle Joy and Vivienne Joy
\nClarissa; Annabelle Joy and Clarissa Joy
\nEmmeline; Annabelle Joy and Emmeline Joy
\nPhilippa; Annabelle Joy and Philippa Joy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! You helped us with our second boy, Matthew William Joseph Wrightman in we loved William but didn’t want to honor grandpa bill. We are now on our fourth baby and hoping you can guide us with your expertise. We have Bennett Patrick- Bennett we loved , Patrick after my late mother, Patricia, his […]<\/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-12353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3df","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353","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=12353"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12359,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions\/12359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}