{"id":12614,"date":"2017-03-15T11:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12614"},"modified":"2017-03-15T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:15:45","slug":"baby-boy-luh-may-brother-to-matilda-and-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2017\/03\/15\/baby-boy-luh-may-brother-to-matilda-and-wilder\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Luh-MAY, Brother to Matilda and Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re expecting our third child, a boy, in early September. Big siblings are Matilda and Wilder, and the surname is French and sounds like luh-MAY. We live in a hipster area of a big city, where it’s normal to hear parents call out: “Otto! Laszlo! Dashiell! Jasper!” Perhaps due to this, I’m really struggling to find anything I like. It’s the common problem of wanting something that feels fresh and different without being too unusual, except those names have all already been taken by my kids’ friends and schoolmates. Add in the fact that I’ve worked at a preschool for the past 5 years, and suddenly all my old favorites feel overused and tired.<\/p>\n

My husband doesn\u2019t seem to be afflicted by this problem. Some of the names he likes best are: Atticus, Alden, Barnaby, Emerson, Hawthorn, Nero, and Orion. I would consider Atticus, but don’t love it, am so-so on Hawthorn, and dislike the others.<\/p>\n

Names I like (but don’t love) that my husband would be willing to consider:
\nCassian (a bit frilly feelng)
\nCormac (pronunciation discrepancies, not great flow with surname)
\nCyrus, Everett, Theo, Tristan (so popular here)
\nLeander (same ending as Wilder)<\/p>\n

Names I like (but don’t love) that my husband has rejected: Anders, Atlas, Boaz, Bram, Caspian, Dario, Emrys, Etienne, Ivo, Jonas, Lucian, Lysander, Orlando, Roman, Roscoe<\/p>\n

The one name we both like but would never use due to spelling: Tadhg<\/p>\n

Names we would have considered had this baby been a girl: Adeline, Beatrix, Coraline, Cordelia, Elodie, Lucia, Lyra, Rose, Thisbe, Zora.<\/p>\n

Ideally the name would flow well with the surname, not end in -er, and sound distinct from yet compatible with Matilda and Wilder. This will most likely be our last baby, so I’m hopeful there’s something out there we’ll (re)discover and both love, rather than something we can merely compromise on.<\/p>\n

I would be very grateful for any suggestions you might have. Many thanks!<\/p>\n

-A<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Just for fun, I started by seeing what the possibilities were for a third name containing “ild”:<\/p>\n

Gildardo
\nHilder
\nTilden<\/p>\n

So, hm. How about only the “ld”:<\/p>\n

Alden (also seen on your husband’s list)
\nAldo
\nAldous
\nAldric
\nAldrich
\nColden
\nElden
\nEldric
\nFielding
\nFitzgerald
\nKelden
\nLeopold
\nMaxfield
\nOswald
\nReginald
\nSheldon
\nWalden (probably too many sounds in common with Wilder)
\nWhitfield<\/p>\n

I particularly like Fielding. Fielding Luhmay; Matilda, Wilder, and Fielding.<\/p>\n

Because it’s common for parents to have different naming styles for boys and for girls, I’d lean more toward matching the brother names here. Wilder is a surname name; for some it will have a pleasing connection to the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. It’s also a word name, with connotations of wildness and wilderness—a little bit of a cowboy\/ranger feel. In spite of those two old-fashioned\/throwback associations, it’s also a cool and modern name: I wouldn’t want to pair it with Harold, for example, even though Harold has an “ld” in it. And although sometimes the way to surprise a hip area is to bring back names such as Douglas and Roger, I don’t think I’d combine those with Wilder either. I think surname names and nature names would go particularly well, but also hip biblical and other names with that old-fashioned\/modern mix:<\/p>\n

Aidric
\nAugust
\nClark
\nCrosby
\nEverest
\nEzekiel
\nFelix
\nFlynn
\nForrest\/Forest
\nGrant
\nHeath
\nJacoby
\nJude
\nLawson
\nLincoln
\nPhineas
\nQuill (we just re-watched Guardians of the Galaxy)
\nRedford
\nReeve
\nReuben
\nShepard
\nSterling
\nSullivan
\nTeague
\nTobias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re expecting our third child, a boy, in early September. Big siblings are Matilda and Wilder, and the surname is French and sounds like luh-MAY. We live in a hipster area of a big city, where it’s normal to hear parents call out: “Otto! Laszlo! Dashiell! Jasper!” Perhaps due to this, I’m really struggling 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":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-12614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3hs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614","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=12614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12615,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614\/revisions\/12615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}