{"id":12538,"date":"2017-02-07T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12538"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:47:42","slug":"baby-girl-davis-sister-to-esther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2017\/02\/07\/baby-girl-davis-sister-to-esther\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Davis, Sister to Esther"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello!<\/p>\n

I love the Swistle community! The help we received<\/a> during my first pregnancy was a highlight for me and helped me solidify my choice to use Esther Elizabeth as our first daughter’s name. We chose the names to honor two amazing grandmothers.<\/p>\n

Based on the difficulty of that decision, we didn’t have a huge base of family names we loved to choose from. Now we want to stay with a family\/traditional name, but are debating what the right choice will be.<\/p>\n

The most popular front runner for most of this pregnancy has been Edith. I like the idea of Esther and Edith (two baby grannies) I also like the nn Edie. I just feel like I have to keep looking to make sure it is perfect. Edith was a beloved great aunt on my mother’s side and I believe it would be an honor to her children to use her name.<\/p>\n

If I go with Edith I was debating if it would feel more regal or powerful if I went with an alternate spelling such as Edythe, then her nn could be Edy? The issue is that I don’t want her to always have to say “I’m edith with a y and an e at the end”. I just love how that spelling looks. With such a common last name as Davis I also like the idea of being more unique somewhere else. however I don’t want to burden a child with a fussy name.<\/p>\n

In addition to our concern about loving the first name enough, i really wanted to use Rae or RaeAnn as the middle name to honor my mother. We had debated this the first time as well. An Edith Rae sounds very southern to us (not like that’s a bad thing!) and we were hoping for a more classic sound like her sister has.<\/p>\n

Our due date is Feb. 18th. We would love hearing from this expert name community again.<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My vote is to keep the Edith spelling, especially if that was the way the beloved great-aunt spelled it. I don’t think changing the spelling improves it, and it adds the fussiness complications you’re hoping to avoid. I think you could spell the nickname Edy even if you spelled the name Edith (just as an Addison can be Addi, Addie, or Addy), though my own preference is for Edie either way.<\/p>\n

I agree with you that the mood of the name Edith RaeAnn is not quite the same as the mood of the name Esther Elizabeth. I think it will come down to which is more important to you, the honor name or the mood of the name. Those two choices sound as if I’m trying to say the honor name should be more important, but that is not how I feel about it: I think both things are important, and sometimes one thing wins and sometimes the other does. With my own kids’ names, sometimes I went one way and sometimes the other.<\/p>\n

My own favorite here would be something like Edith Josephine. Do you have a Joseph in the family tree, perhaps? Or Edith Margaret. Or you could go all-out on E names and name her Edith Eleanor.<\/p>\n

Getting back to Josephine\/Joseph, that might be a good idea for finding more family names in general: see if any of the men’s names can be feminized. Henry\/Henrietta, Charles\/Charlotte, George\/Georgia, Louis\/Louisa, Francis\/Frances, Philip\/Philippa, Robert\/Roberta, Frederick\/Fredrika, etc.<\/p>\n

If you are not quite set on Edith, it might be fun to discuss other options. Ruth, for example, is similar in style and shares the -th. I love the nickname Ruthie. Ruth Davis; Esther and Ruth.<\/p>\n

Or Winifred. I so love the name Winifred. Winifred Davis; Esther and Winifred.<\/p>\n

Sylvia is pretty. Sylvia Davis; Esther and Sylvia.<\/p>\n

I have an unbroken track record of getting no one at all to agree to use Millicent. Shall we break that record? Millicent Davis; Esther and Millicent.<\/p>\n

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

Hello!\u00a0 I have a name update.
\nWe are so happy that our swistle email was answered.\u00a0 We spent a lot of time contemplating this name and are so very grateful for everyone’s advice.<\/p>\n

We chose Edith Frances Rae (two middle names) as the baby’s name.\u00a0 As we are unsure if we will have another child I decided that I wanted to feel like I chose a name that I loved that wasn’t necessarily an honor name.\u00a0 I have always liked Frances and am happy to be able to include it.\u00a0 My father’s middle name is frank so it can also be a loose tribute to him.\u00a0 I added Rae as a second middle name so I could have it included as a tribute.\u00a0 I have 4 names so I felt this wouldn’t be so out of the norm.\u00a0 Thanks swistle universe!<\/p>\n

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