{"id":12394,"date":"2016-11-02T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12394"},"modified":"2017-02-24T21:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T01:55:18","slug":"baby-girl-tennis-with-a-gr-sister-to-jck-j0seph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2016\/11\/02\/baby-girl-tennis-with-a-gr-sister-to-jck-j0seph\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Tennis-with-a-Gr, Sister to J@ck J0seph"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! My husband and I are expecting our second (and likely final) child in February. It\u2019s a girl. We have a two year old son named J@ck J0seph. His first name is one of the few we agreed on, and his middle name is a family name on my husband\u2019s side. Our last name rhymes with \u2018tennis\u2019 but starts with Gr.<\/p>\n

We like fairly traditional\/ preppy names that easy to pronounce and spell. I\u2019m fine with classic\/ popular but not so much trendy\/ popular names. If baby was a boy we likely would have named him Reid or Graham. For a while I thought we were set on Evelyn and then in a week\u2019s time I swear I met\/heard about five different Evelyns and it made me doubt our choice. Now we\u2019re having trouble even generating a list of enough girl names we like. Boy names were so much easier for me!<\/p>\n

Possibilities:<\/p>\n

Evelyn (bonus that it was my great grandmother\u2019s name)- We can\u2019t agree on what we would call her. Evvie? Evie?<\/p>\n

Elise- this is growing on me<\/p>\n

Amelia- this was my favorite for a long time, but it has risen in popularity since then and husband is lukewarm<\/p>\n

Claire- I would say this is a clear 4th choice, behind the other 3<\/p>\n

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Possible middle names:<\/p>\n

Rebecca- my middle name<\/p>\n

Elizabeth- family name on husband’s side<\/p>\n

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I think I\u2019m still leaning towards Evelyn Elizabeth or Evelyn Elise (I like the double E\u2019s since our son is double J\u2019s, but it’s not necessary). Do you have other suggestions for us? Thank you- I promise to send an update!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The rise of the name Evelyn has been interesting to me. I have an aunt named Evelyn, so I’d mentally grouped the name with other names (Nancy, Carol, Barbara, Deborah) that were still being actively used by the mothers\/grandmothers and so weren’t yet ready to come back around for new babies. It’s more typical for names to sound good right around the time everyone who had the name last time has, er, departed. But Evelyn broke away from the pack and came back early.<\/p>\n

Well, or maybe not actually early: although I do have an aunt named Evelyn, the name last peaked in the U.S. in 1915, when it entered the Top Ten for one single year. It dropped pretty steadily after that, settling into the 200s rankings in the 1970s-80s. Then:<\/p>\n

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Hello! Back for another round! Evelyn is a nice old name, and I think it’s great with J@ck. I think you could wait and see how the nickname works itself out, unless there is a nickname you actively dislike. I love your idea of doing double initials again; I’d vote for Elizabeth since that’s the family name. J@ck J0seph and Evelyn Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

Claire is my own top favorite from your list, but I’m less enthusiastic about it if it’s well behind the other three for you. Do you like Clara any better? J@ck and Clara, very nice.<\/p>\n

I’m less fond of Elise, but it’s hard to put a finger on why. I’m not crazy about the repeated S ending of Elise _ennis, that’s part of it.<\/p>\n

Let’s see if we can come up with a few more names to consider. I like the idea of her sharing your middle name. Just for fun I was going to see if I could come up with a list of repeating-initial names in the right style, but I only found Rose and maybe Rosemary, and J@ck and Rose is probably too much Titanic. More first-name options to consider:<\/p>\n

Eleanor. It has the rhythm of Evelyn, the El- of Elise, and a nice assortment of nicknames. J@ck J0seph and Eleanor Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

Abigail. Along the lines of Amelia. I love the sound of J@ck and Abby.<\/p>\n

Eliza. I love it with J@ck. Rules out Elizabeth as the middle. People differ on this, but I love the sound of a repeated -a first\/middle: Eliza Rebecca.<\/p>\n

Molly. Some of the sounds of Amelia. J@ck J0seph and Molly Rebecca.<\/p>\n

Cora. One of my friends has a daughter named Cora, and it strikes me pleasantly every time I hear it. J@ck J0seph and Cora Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

Lydia. This name, like Evelyn, surprised me by coming back into style before I’d expected it to. J@ck J0seph and Lydia Rebecca.<\/p>\n

I also like the idea of naming her both of the family middle-name options: Elizabeth Rebecca. J@ck J0seph and Elizabeth Rebecca. That’s just PACKED with classic.<\/p>\n

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

Hi Swistle- You helped us with some name ideas for our baby girl back in November. I was really encouraged by all the positive feedback for Evelyn Elizabeth and we felt confident that was her name. But then- literally the same day that you posted our question- long distance friends had a baby and named her Evelyn. What are the odds?\u00a0 So we had to decide how much that mattered to us, especially since we rarely see them. I loved your suggestion of Eliza and really tried to sway my husband. But in the end, we just couldn’t shake the feeling that she was meant to be named Evelyn Elizabeth- and it suits her perfectly. So far we’ve been calling her a mix of Evelyn, Evvie, and Ev. Thanks for all your help!<\/p>\n

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Hi Swistle! My husband and I are expecting our second (and likely final) child in February. It\u2019s a girl. We have a two year old son named J@ck J0seph. His first name is one of the few we agreed on, and his middle name is a family name on my husband\u2019s side. 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":true,"_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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394","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=12394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12579,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions\/12579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}