{"id":13291,"date":"2018-03-12T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2018-03-12T11:01:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:01:23","slug":"baby-girl-cadaret-sister-to-gabriel-and-theodore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2018\/03\/12\/baby-girl-cadaret-sister-to-gabriel-and-theodore\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Cadaret, Sister to Gabriel and Theodore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi there –<\/p>\n

Your post<\/a> (and the comments!) helped us name our second son, Theo, in 2014. After two devastating losses halfway through pregnancy in 2016, I am now 7 months pregnant with a baby girl. I’m hoping naming her will help me feel more hopeful and connected to her. I’m still worried I won’t get a baby out of this (even just sending this email feels like a huge leap of faith and “how the heck can you expect to need a baby name!?”). But I need to name her either way.<\/p>\n

She’s due in mid-May, our last name is Cadaret (rhymes with Cabaret), and my boys are named Gabriel (Gabe) and Theodore (Theo). If she was a boy, I’d probably rally for a name with the nickname Gus.<\/p>\n

As we explore girl names, I’m a little wary of the fact that several of the names we like are similar to other names (Adeline\/Adelaide, Isabelle\/Isabella, Lillian\/Lilliana, etc). I’m worried about having a name that is confusing in the sense that people forget which version it is. I know a few friends named Lauren or Laura who hate how often their name gets mixed up with the other one. Is that a problem I need to worry about? I am kind of thinking I’ll steer clear of those kind of names, even though I do quite like Caroline (which is often confused with Carolyn).<\/p>\n

Names we (or just I, but whatever I’m stubborn) like:<\/p>\n

Isabella or Isabelle
\nCharlotte
\nAbigail
\nAmelia
\nLily or Lillian
\nPenelope nn. Penny
\nEleanor
\nCaroline
\nJosephine nn. Josie
\nMargaret nn. Maggie
\nEloise<\/p>\n

We have a trend for naming a more formal name with a nickname (Gabe and Theo), but I’m not married to the idea.<\/p>\n

Please advise, oh wise baby namer.<\/p>\n

Thanks,
\nAshley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

As a Kristen sometimes mistaken for a Kirsten, Kiersten, or Christine, I can confirm it’s definitely an annoyance—though it was not annoying enough for me to take it into account when naming my children. If you suspect it’s something that will drive you nuts, you’re wise to think of it ahead of time: my guess is that although practically any name is sometimes mistaken for another name, the Margarets and Penelopes of the world deal with it less often than the Isabelles and Adelines.<\/p>\n

Two names on the list catch my attention for issues with the brother names. The first is Eleanor, which rhymes with Theodore. The second is Abigail, which for me is too close to Gabriel.<\/p>\n

Looking at the name Margaret with your surname, I wonder if it would lead to pronunciation issues: Margaret Cadaret LOOKS as if the two names would rhyme, but they don’t. This bothers me for reasons I can’t quite put a finger on, but it is enough to take Margaret out of my top choices even though it’s one of my favorite names. Charlotte Cadaret gives me some of the same feeling, though lessened because the endings aren’t exactly matched.<\/p>\n

My top choices from the list are Penelope, Josephine, and Eloise. Of those, my guess is that Eloise is the most likely to be mistaken for other names (Heloise, Eliza, Eleanor, etc.), but that the others are about as safe as names can be: that is, a Josie might sometimes be misheard as a Rosie, but only to the unavoidable extent ANY name might sometimes be misheard or misremembered. (Households containing Penelopes and Josephines should feel free to confirm or deny this.) And I love that Penelope and Josephine both meet the preference for a natural nickname along the lines of Gabriel\/Gabe and Theodore\/Theo.<\/p>\n

Normally my next step would be to come up with more suggestions, but I feel as if you’ve got this covered: you have a good list with lots of strong candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi there – Your post (and the comments!) helped us name our second son, Theo, in 2014. After two devastating losses halfway through pregnancy in 2016, I am now 7 months pregnant with a baby girl. I’m hoping naming her will help me feel more hopeful and connected to her. I’m still worried I won’t […]<\/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-13291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3sn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291","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=13291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13293,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions\/13293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}