{"id":13029,"date":"2017-11-02T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13029"},"modified":"2018-03-06T16:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:01:33","slug":"baby-girl-rahtickah-sister-to-beckett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2017\/11\/02\/baby-girl-rahtickah-sister-to-beckett\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Rahtickah, Sister to Beckett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

My husband (Brandon) and I (Julianne) are excited to be expecting our second child this March, and we’d love your and your readers’ input! I have always had a deep love of names – I have notebooks filled with name lists and imaginary families I created just so I could put names together! I thought I had a great list for naming my future children, and then I married an amazing man who was just a little more opinionated on baby names than I expected. :)<\/p>\n

Our toddler son is Beckett (nn Beck) James, and our last name is extremely Finnish with lots of double letters and is pronounced “Rah-tick-ah.” I would describe our naming style as fairly traditional\/classic with a unique twist. It would take a lot to get us to select a top-20 name, although it’s not out of the question. We love how with our son’s name, people often comment that they haven’t heard it before, but it’s not too strange that they struggle to remember or pronounce it. I felt like I had a similar experience growing up with the name Julianne.<\/p>\n

My biggest challenge is that while I like the names on our current list, I don’t feel like I love any of them.<\/p>\n

This baby is a girl, and had she been a boy (or if she turns out to be one!) our top name was Charleston (nn Charlie) Luke. Other boy names we loved included Jonas, Rhys, and Lincoln. We are hoping to welcome more children into our family in the future.<\/p>\n

Here are some of our frontrunners:<\/p>\n

Josie – my husband’s favorite
\nBryn\/Brynn
\nLeighton
\nCambridge (nn Cambrie) – this is what our son would have been named if he had been a girl
\nHannah (although is the “ah” ending too rhymy with our last name?)
\nLandry
\nShiloh
\nViolet
\nCharlotte (my #1 but it’s getting way too popular)
\nKensington
\nEvelyn
\nVivienne
\nIsabel<\/p>\n

Names vetoed by one spouse or the other: Adalyn, Jacqueline, Annaliese, Lucia (love – but again with the rhyming last name), Jordyn, Mackenzie<\/p>\n

Current middle name options (all honor names, but we are open to other options): Lauren, Kate, Esther, Elisabeth<\/p>\n

We look forward to hearing your suggestions and promise to update!<\/p>\n

Brandon and Julianne<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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If popularity is a concern, here are the names I would take out of the running:<\/p>\n

Isabel: Isabel itself is safely out of the Top 20, but Isabella has been Top 20 for 15 years in a row so far.<\/p>\n

Hannah: Gradually falling and is now out of the Top 20, but it was in the Top 20 from 1994 through 2008.<\/p>\n

Charlotte: Entered the Top 20 in 2012 and the Top 10 two years after that; it’s still there, and rising (#7 in 2016).<\/p>\n

Evelyn: In the Top 20 since 2013 and has risen each year since then (#12 in 2016).<\/p>\n

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You have a mix of traditional\/classic (Charlotte, Hannah) and modern surname names (Leighton, Landry). Do you find yourselves agreeing which way to lean? If you like sibling names to coordinate, and you’re planning to have more children, this is a good time to see if you can narrow down your style. Which seems more like Your Family: breaking up a fight between Cambridge and Kensington, or between Josie and Violet?<\/p>\n

Vivienne is a great alternative to Evelyn: similar sounds, but less common. The spelling Vivienne was #245 in 2016; the spelling Vivian was #95.<\/p>\n

I like Josie, but as a nickname for Josephine, especially if sons will have longer-form names with nicknames.<\/p>\n

Would “Beck and Brynn” make you feel stuck finding another snappy B-name for possible future siblings?<\/p>\n

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Let’s see if we can find more options to consider.<\/p>\n

Along the lines of Charlotte\/Hannah\/Josie\/Evelyn\/Isabel:<\/p>\n

Alice
\nBridget
\nCecily
\nCeleste
\nConstance
\nEloise
\nEmeline
\nFlorence
\nGenevieve
\nImogen
\nIris
\nIvy
\nMargaret (not sure about this with the surname)
\nMeredith
\nMiriam (not sure about this with the surname)
\nMolly
\nPolly
\nSadie
\nSimone
\nSylvie
\nWinifred<\/p>\n

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Along the lines of Cambridge\/Landry\/Kensington\/Leighton:<\/p>\n

Brinley
\nCallister (Callie)
\nCampbell (Cammie, Bella)
\nDarby
\nDelancey
\nDelaney
\nEmberley
\nEverly
\nFlannery
\nHolland (Holly)
\nKeaton (not sure about this with the surname)
\nLane
\nLinley
\nLocklyn
\nMiller (Millie)
\nPadgett
\nSloane
\nWaverly
\nWinslow (Winnie)
\nYeardley<\/p>\n

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

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

Thank you for your help! Your advice and your readers’ comments helped direct and steer our baby name choice for our dear daughter who arrived a few days early! In the end we decided that we wanted to go with more of a traditional, clearly feminine feel. Your readers gave us the courage to rethink Lucia as a first name and also brought Esther to the front of our minds (as a first name rather than middle). In the end we were down to Lucia, Isabel, or Esther. When she arrived, there was no doubt in our minds, and we added Lucia (Loo-see-a) Kate to the family. Her brother has already lovingly dubbed her “Lucy.”<\/p>\n

With thanks,<\/p>\n

Julianne, Brandon, Beckett, and Lucia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, My husband (Brandon) and I (Julianne) are excited to be expecting our second child this March, and we’d love your and your readers’ input! I have always had a deep love of names – I have notebooks filled with name lists and imaginary families I created just so I could put names together! […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3o9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029","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=13029"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13280,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029\/revisions\/13280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}