{"id":13108,"date":"2017-11-29T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13108"},"modified":"2017-12-23T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T01:11:52","slug":"baby-boy-c________-brother-to-tobias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2017\/11\/29\/baby-boy-c________-brother-to-tobias\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy C________, Brother to Tobias"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Swistle!<\/p>\n

I’m hoping you’ll be able to help us make some progress on a name. We’ve come up with some options but haven’t made any progress and the baby is due in two months.<\/p>\n

Our last name starts with C and is a male character from Friends…not Ross or Joey. We have a one year old son named Tobias Milo (we call him Toby a lot of the time). We’re expecting a second boy on December 24.<\/p>\n

We’re both data geeks at heart so we have an elaborate spreadsheet with weighted ratings for each parent on a variety of factors – sound, meaning, popularity, etc. It worked well for Tobias but for this baby, we have quite a few top contenders and no clear winner.<\/p>\n

Our ideal name is one that people recognize as a name, but don’t know many people with that name. I’m Dutch and gravitate to more northern European names.<\/p>\n

Here are the ones we came up with:
\nLeo (doesn’t lend well to any nicknames, but one of our favourites)
\nSchuyler (is it too hard to spell?)
\nWillem (William is a family name, but feels too popular to us. We’d more likely use it as a middle name.)
\nJulian (maybe the most trendy on our list?)
\nJustus (is it too odd?)
\nOrson (again…a bit odd)
\nLuca
\nFelix<\/p>\n

Names my husband likes but I don’t: Micah, Malachi, Edmund, Hudson
\nNames I like but my husband doesn’t: Hugo, Soren, Nico, Silas (too similar to Tobias, maybe)<\/p>\n

We haven’t even begun to think about middle names…but with our first son, it worked well to just pick something else from our list with a complementary meaning that sounded good.<\/p>\n

If we had a girl, the only name we’ve ever thrown around and both liked is Charis\/Karis.<\/p>\n

We would love to have your help! We’re at a standstill and would like to pick a name before the baby arrives.<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Felix William was born a week early – I went into labour just hours after we finally sat down and decided on a name!<\/p>\n

We had moved Felix to the bottom of the list and weren’t expecting to reconsider it, but seeing so many comments about how well it matched Toby’s name swayed us in the end. It suits him nicely and we love the meaning!
\nThanks to everyone for their help!<\/p>\n

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Hello Swistle! I’m hoping you’ll be able to help us make some progress on a name. We’ve come up with some options but haven’t made any progress and the baby is due in two months. Our last name starts with C and is a male character from Friends…not Ross or Joey. We have a one […]<\/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-13108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3pq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13108","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=13108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13152,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13108\/revisions\/13152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}