{"id":13294,"date":"2018-03-16T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13294"},"modified":"2018-03-16T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T19:28:36","slug":"baby-boy-or-girl-rhymes-with-pitt-sibling-to-broderick-brody-and-thompson-tommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2018\/03\/16\/baby-boy-or-girl-rhymes-with-pitt-sibling-to-broderick-brody-and-thompson-tommy\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy or Girl Rhymes-with-Pitt, Sibling to Broderick (Brody) and Thompson (Tommy)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

I am expecting my third child late summer. It\u2019s going to be our last! We aren\u2019t going to find out the sex beforehand, but are having some serious issues with either boy or girl names – help!<\/p>\n

Our last name starts with a “Shm” sound and rhymes with Pitt. I am really not a fan of first names that end in \u201cS\u201d in general because of how it pairs with our last name.<\/p>\n

We have two boys:
\nBroderick Anderson (Brody)
\nThompson Abraham (Tommy)<\/p>\n

As you can see, we are a fan of last names as first names. This third baby will have the middle Dean no matter what (in honor of my Grandma whose name was Willa Dean).<\/p>\n

We have considered Theodore for a boy, but recently nixed it because between the two of us, we can\u2019t get on board with either Theo or Teddy as a nickname. I\u2019ve always loved Cameron, but my husband is not a fan.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s a girl, i want her to have a really feminine first name since her last name isn\u2019t so much. The one name we can both agree on is Adeline, although my one reservation is that we have a niece Madeline, and is that too similar even though ours will have the long \u201ci\u201d sound?<\/p>\n

I have also always liked Amelia, but my husband isn\u2019t a fan.<\/p>\n

I appreciate any help you can provide – We are just at a loss!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

It would be fun to see if we could find another boy name that was an unusual\/fresh surname-name with a familiar nickname. No reason we MUST—just, it would be fun to look. I’m leaning heavily here on the Last Names First section of The Baby Name Wizard<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Callahan\/Cal
\nCallister\/Cal
\nCorrigan\/Cory
\nCortland\/Cory
\nDavison\/Davy
\nFinnegan\/Finn
\nMaxfield\/Max
\nNicholson\/Nick
\nRobinson\/Rob
\nRobertson\/Rob<\/p>\n

I find the ones that end in -son a little hard to say with the surname—not to a deal-breaking point, but enough to notice. Plus, those repeat the ending of Thompson—again, doesn’t have to rule them out, especially if you mostly call him Tommy.<\/p>\n

More possibilities:<\/p>\n

Carter
\nCrosby
\nGriffin
\nKeaton
\nLawson
\nMeyer
\nRedford
\nSullivan
\nWesley<\/p>\n

If your husband isn’t interested in Cameron, I wonder if he’d like Camden? Broderick, Thompson, and Camden; Brody, Tommy, and Cam.<\/p>\n

I don’t think Adeline is too close to Madeline for cousins, especially if I’m assuming correctly that your niece uses the -linn pronunciation.<\/p>\n

The first step with girl names, I think, is to figure out your general style. Adeline and Amelia make me think of classic\/vintage girl names such as Abigail, Annabel, Audrey, Clara, Claudia, Cordelia, Eliza, Eloise, Emeline, Flora, Josephine, Lillian, Lydia, Margaret, Molly, Olivia, Sylvia, Victoria.<\/p>\n

But if you’re looking over that list and thinking, “Hm, no, no, nope, hm, no, meh, no,” then it might be that I’m way off and your style is actually Names that Start with A, or French Names, or Still Surname-Names But with Good Feminine Nicknames, or any number of other categories. This is one reason I’m so fond of The Baby Name Wizard<\/a>: names are sorted by category, so you can look over a whole group of names and think, “Yes, we like a LOT of those” (and then spend more time evaluating all the other names in the category) or “Nope, that is DEFINITELY not us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! I am expecting my third child late summer. It\u2019s going to be our last! We aren\u2019t going to find out the sex beforehand, but are having some serious issues with either boy or girl names – help! Our last name starts with a “Shm” sound and rhymes with Pitt. I am really not […]<\/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-13294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3sq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294","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=13294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13297,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions\/13297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}