{"id":12864,"date":"2017-07-28T10:27:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2017-07-28T10:27:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:27:27","slug":"baby-boy-kaplan-brother-to-zoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2017\/07\/28\/baby-boy-kaplan-brother-to-zoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Kaplan, Brother to Zo\u00eb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baby Kaplan is already here :O (now less than a week old) and we still have not settled on the name! We have a 2 year old named Zo\u00eb and wanted a name that went well with her name so we were thinking Zac or Zachary and middle name Aaron named after a relative. But i am not a huge fan of Zac. I feel its kind of immature not necessarily the most grown up name. I personally prefer Jack but my husband does not like Jack :(. So we are kind of at a standstill… unless I just learn to live with Zac… which I don’t hate, but I just don’t think its a very mature name… there are other names I’m sure I would like but seem stuck on these. Should i just live with Zachary? especially since it goes well with Zo\u00eb…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don’t think you have to choose a name just because it goes so well with your other child’s name. In fact, I will make that statement stronger: I don’t think you should choose a name just because it goes well with another child’s name.<\/p>\n

If you loved the name Zac, then of course “going well with the name Zo\u00eb” would be another point in its favor. But it sounds right now as if it’s the only point in its favor for you. It also sounds to me–though this is conjecture–that your husband is pushing you to use Zac, and that this has turned into a “my choice vs. your choice” discussion with him. Generally at some point this means both choices need to be removed from consideration.<\/p>\n

If you would like an argument against the name Zac, I’d say it’s on the matchy side of coordination: three letters, starts with Z. If you plan on having more children, I think you’re going to find yourself stuck on a third name. And the name Zachary has the same starting sound AND the same ending sound as Zo\u00eb. But the best argument is that you’re just not feeling it.<\/p>\n

If you don’t want to use Zac, now is the moment for a strong statement: “No, Zac is not the name. I agree it goes nicely with Zo\u00eb, but I’m not a fan of the name itself. We need to find something else.” Then make sure the discussion is “Finding a name we can agree on for our baby boy” and not “Finding a name Husband likes as much as he likes Zac.” And make sure the discussion is never “It’s Zac unless you can think of something else I like better”: Zac should be off the table if you want it off the table. You shouldn’t have to live with it any more than your husband should have to live with the name Jack.<\/p>\n

It sounds like this is a situation in which you’ll need to go back to the drawing board and start with a new list (or go back to whatever choices you had besides Zac and Jack). Don’t panic: you still have time. Here are a few to consider:<\/p>\n

Dax (three letters like Zo\u00eb, similar in sound to Jack and Zac)
\nEli (three letters and two syllables like Zo\u00eb)
\nEzekiel (Z-sound like Zo\u00eb, nickname Zeke similar to Zac)
\nEzra (Z-sound like Zo\u00eb)
\nFinn
\nIan (three letters and two syllables like Zo\u00eb)
\nIsaac (Z-sound like Zo\u00eb, hard-C-sound like Zac and Jack, nickname Ike or Zac)
\nJax (only a slightly different sound than Jack, but very different in style)
\nLeo (three letters and two syllables and long-O-sound like Zo\u00eb)
\nMax (three letters like Zo\u00eb, similar in sound to Jack and Zac)
\nMilo (long-O-sound like Zo\u00eb)
\nQuinn (cool initial like Zo\u00eb)
\nXander\/Zander (Z-sound and cool initial like Zo\u00eb)
\nXavier\/Zavier (Z-sound and cool initial like Zo\u00eb)
\nWyatt
\nZane (Z-sound and cool initial like Zo\u00eb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baby Kaplan is already here :O (now less than a week old) and we still have not settled on the name! We have a 2 year old named Zo\u00eb and wanted a name that went well with her name so we were thinking Zac or Zachary and middle name Aaron named after a relative. But […]<\/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-12864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3lu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864","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=12864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12865,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions\/12865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}