{"id":12611,"date":"2017-03-13T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T15:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12611"},"modified":"2017-03-22T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T00:07:10","slug":"baby-boy-mavis-with-a-d-brother-to-edward-fiona-and-harriet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2017\/03\/13\/baby-boy-mavis-with-a-d-brother-to-edward-fiona-and-harriet\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Mavis-with-a-D, Brother to Edward, Fiona, and Harriet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!!<\/p>\n

Well our beautiful baby boy was born last week and we have yet to find a name for him. I never understand people who could leave the hospital without naming their baby, but alas, that is us. Our last name is Mavis with a D.<\/p>\n

Our three eldest children were fairly easy to name: Edward Joseph (grandfathers name), Fiona Potter (Potter is a family surname), Harriet Pauline (Pauline is my grandmothers name).<\/p>\n

For this little guy, we just haven’t had one “click” yet.<\/p>\n

My husband is fully against my favorite which is George, so that is out. He likes the name but just can’t get over how I have a living uncle George.<\/p>\n

His favorite is Ashford, claiming he loves it because of the different nicknames available to him – Ash and Ford, as well as how it is somewhat gender neutral. We would name him Ashford Lee, so he would have the same initials and same middle name as me (though mine is spelled with the “igh”). My husband loves that idea and how with him being our last baby, and how he was a successful much desired VBA2C, as a tribute to me. I think it’s sweet.<\/p>\n

The other 2 names that we are still considering are Felix (my grandfathers middle name) and Crosby which is my maiden name.<\/p>\n

I look at this baby and keep seeing Felix, but wonder if having a Fiona and a Felix is too much “Fi”\/”Fe” sound? We call our daughter Fi or Fifi, and are unlikely to call our son those nicknames, so I’m just not sure if it’s a concern.<\/p>\n

Crosby is probably in 3rd place now, but still a contender. We love how unique it is and yet it’s still a family name.<\/p>\n

What do you and your readers think? We could really use some insight from people who haven’t been thinking of these names over and over for so long.<\/p>\n

Thank you!!!<\/p>\n

Amie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

I am so happy to announce that we came to an agreement on baby’s name! Everyone’s comments were so very helpful in our conversations at home as we got to know our little man. When it came down to it, my dear husband told me that he liked the name George (his only issue with the name was that I have a living Uncle George) and that since he had named Edward, I could name our last baby. I broke down in tears with relief and asked him to pick his middle name. I’ve attached a photo of our fourth and last child, George Crosby! We couldn’t be happier and am so glad that we took our time in making the decision. Thank you so much for all of your help!!<\/p>\n

Amie<\/p>\n

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Hi Swistle!! Well our beautiful baby boy was born last week and we have yet to find a name for him. I never understand people who could leave the hospital without naming their baby, but alas, that is us. Our last name is Mavis with a D. Our three eldest children were fairly easy to […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611","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=12611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12630,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions\/12630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}