{"id":13140,"date":"2017-12-19T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13140"},"modified":"2017-12-19T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T16:24:55","slug":"baby-girl-powell-sister-to-poppy-daisy-and-freddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2017\/12\/19\/baby-girl-powell-sister-to-poppy-daisy-and-freddie\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Powell, Sister to Freddie, Poppy, and Daisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

I am expecting my fourth child in March. This will most likely be our last child. Our son, Freddie, will be nearly 3 when the baby arrives and our twin daughters, Poppy and Daisy, will be 18 months.<\/p>\n

We are expecting another girl. We are steering towards another floral name as we don\u2019t want the baby to feel left out that she doesn\u2019t have a floral name like her twin sisters.<\/p>\n

Our surname is Powell. My favourite name so far is Lily but my husband struggles with its strong association to death. It is the number 1 flower at funerals. Other names we agree on are Violet and Rose. I like those names but don\u2019t love them like I love Lily. I guess it bothers me that Violet is shortened to \u201cVi\u201d it sounds so harsh. Rose is a lovely name but is it a bit plain?<\/p>\n

Any thoughts?<\/p>\n

Thanks<\/p>\n

Lucie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I think you could do a non-flower name, since Poppy and Daisy are twins: it seems as if they could have something uniting their two names without their siblings feeling left out, particularly since you already have another child without a flower name.<\/p>\n

I do think at this point I would lean toward a name ending with -y or -ie.<\/p>\n

I don’t think of Rose as plain. As a middle name, it is extremely familiar, but as a first name it still sounds fresh. The nickname Rosie would give her the -ie option.<\/p>\n

I suggest Ivy. Freddie, Poppy, Daisy, and Ivy.<\/p>\n

Or Flora. Freddie, Poppy, Daisy, and Flora.<\/p>\n

I also like Posy, but I’m worried it seems like a combination of Poppy and Daisy.<\/p>\n

I think something like Ruby would work: gemstone names are similar to flower names, but avoid the bouquet effect. Freddie, Poppy, Daisy, and Ruby.<\/p>\n

Or Bonnie: I think any pretty word-name works well. Freddie, Poppy, Daisy, and Bonnie.<\/p>\n

I wanted to suggest May, but May Powell makes me think of maypole. Not that we routinely discuss maypoles, and not that they’re a bad thing, so perhaps that’s not a deal-breaker. But perhaps June would be better: Freddie, Poppy, Daisy, and Junie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, I am expecting my fourth child in March. This will most likely be our last child. Our son, Freddie, will be nearly 3 when the baby arrives and our twin daughters, Poppy and Daisy, will be 18 months. We are expecting another girl. We are steering towards another floral name as we don\u2019t […]<\/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-13140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3pW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140","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=13140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13143,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140\/revisions\/13143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}