{"id":12521,"date":"2017-01-17T08:38:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12521"},"modified":"2017-01-17T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:40:18","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-monahan-sibling-to-leon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2017\/01\/17\/baby-girl-or-boy-monahan-sibling-to-leon\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Monahan, Sibling to Leon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n

We’re expecting our second child next month and won’t be finding out the gender of the baby. We felt naming our baby the first time around was far easier, and settled on Leon for our son pretty early on in the pregnancy. This time around we’re struggling, particularly with boys names. Our surname sounds like Monahan.<\/p>\n

We chose the name Leon previously because we liked the fact that it was uncommon, yet easily pronounceable and a strong short name. We also appreciated that the name worked well as it was, without needing a nickname.<\/p>\n

We love the name Anais for a girl, with the pronunciation as ‘Anna-ees’. Would love your feedback on what best spelling would best match the pronunciation. Elise is also another name that we like that also goes quite well with Leon.<\/p>\n

For boys we’ve narrowed down to either Emil or Henry \/ Henri but are less confident. We like Emil for the same reasons we like Leon. Short, and pronounceable. We like Henry too but prefer a more uncommon name, and that Henri with an ‘i’ is more modern than the traditional\/classic names that we like.<\/p>\n

Would love your thoughts.<\/p>\n

M<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

The association with Ana\u00efs Nin<\/a> is going to help at least a portion of the population with the pronunciation of Anais. But you’re right, it’s a bit of a challenge for many. I am not having success coming up with a pleasing alternate spelling.<\/p>\n

Because you also like the name Elise, I suggest Anneliese.<\/p>\n

I also like the idea of Anne Elise, either as a double first name or as first\/middle (but calling her by both names).<\/p>\n

For a boy, I think Emil and Henry are both nice choices, and I agree that Emil is more in line with Leon. If I saw the spelling Henri, I would think the name was pronounced on-REE.<\/p>\n

The Baby Name Wizard<\/a> has a small section of “Names without Borders” that I thought would go well with what you’re looking for. For girls, I especially like Anika and Nadia. For boys, nothing from the list seems quite right. I am not sure what to pair with it. Possibly something like:<\/p>\n

Anders
\nArthur
\nCyrus
\nEzra
\nHugo
\nJasper
\nKarl
\nMilo
\nNoel
\nRufus
\nSilas<\/p>\n

But I am especially glad to have the comments section for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle, We’re expecting our second child next month and won’t be finding out the gender of the baby. We felt naming our baby the first time around was far easier, and settled on Leon for our son pretty early on in the pregnancy. This time around we’re struggling, particularly with boys names. Our surname […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3fX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521","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=12521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12524,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions\/12524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}