{"id":13370,"date":"2018-05-07T10:38:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13370"},"modified":"2018-06-13T08:46:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T12:46:30","slug":"baby-girl-cave-sister-to-lincoln-and-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2018\/05\/07\/baby-girl-cave-sister-to-lincoln-and-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Cave, Sister to Lincoln and Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello baby naming genius, I need your help!<\/p>\n

I am currently pregnant with my third child: a girl, due June 11th. My husband and I absolutely cannot (and never have) agree on a girl name, so my sister-in-law sent me to your blog and I am reaching out in desperation!<\/p>\n

We currently have two boys, Lincoln Scott and Sullivan Woodrow. We did not find out the gender of the boys before they were born, but this time around, I just wanted to know, and we are excitedly expecting a girl. When I was pregnant with the boys, we did not have a girl’s name picked out—nothing, so I was happy that they were both boys! Actually, my husband named the boys after popular movies that had come out (or were soon to be released) around the time the boys were born: “Lincoln” and “Sully”. The boys have family middle names, one for my father, and one for my husband’s late grandfather. I love the boys names.<\/p>\n

Our last name is Cave, which is a little unusual, but not too odd.<\/p>\n

I LOVE the name Molly. Always have. Always will. It is the only girls name I’ve ever seriously considered. My husband, however, thinks it is a “baby name” and sounds like a “nick-name”. (He has suggested awful things like naming her “Ryan” after a best friend, or “Alexandra” which is just way too stuffy and formal). I am very stuck on Molly, but don’t have any idea of what to use for middle name—as we don’t have any female family names that we want to use, it’s pretty open to whatever sounds good.<\/p>\n

I am trying to convince my husband to side with me (am I allowed to pull the “but you named the boys!” card?? \ud83d\ude09), but I need a good middle name to help me out. I feel like the middle name should be longer—maybe three syllables, to help balance the shortness of our last name. I don’t like “Elizabeth” or “Victoria” or royal sounding names, I tend to like names like “Agatha” and “Hazel” and “Willow”. However, My middle name is Joi (Joy) and I love it, but my husband thinks it would be weird to name her Molly Joi after me…..thoughts?<\/p>\n

I am also Irish. (Cave is Welsh).<\/p>\n

So, I don’t know if you can help me out—-perhaps even giving me another option for Molly (no, I don’t want to use “Mary”). But really, I need your help to make “Molly” more appealing! :)<\/p>\n

Thank you!!<\/p>\n

Tarah Cave<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Let me start by arguing with your husband on pretty much everything:<\/p>\n

1. The name Molly is not a babyish name.<\/p>\n

2. The name Molly CAN be a nickname for Mary or Margaret, but is also a given name. My strong guess is that it is currently much more common as a given name than as a nickname. Many people don’t even know it can be a nickname for other names.<\/p>\n

3. It would not be weird for your daughter to have the same middle name as you. Handing down a name from parent to child is in fact a fairly ordinary baby-naming practice—more common with father\/son names, but why should that be? I’d like to see it get equally as common with mother\/daughter names.<\/p>\n

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Also, I’m with you: he got more say with the first two kids’ names, so you should have more say this time. He should at the very least be considering your favorite very seriously and trying very hard to come around to it.<\/p>\n

Some similar names, in case any of them would appeal:<\/p>\n

Holly
\nMalia (the MAH-lee-ah pronunciation, with Molly as a nickname)
\nMallory
\nMilly (Amelia, Millicent)
\nPolly
\nTilly (Matilda)<\/p>\n

I would have suggested Sally, but that’s so close to Sully. Even Molly\/Milly\/Polly\/etc. are getting a little close, if you usually call him Sully.<\/p>\n

With Molly ____ Cave, I like a two-syllable middle name with the emphasis on the second syllable: Molly Louise, Molly Noelle, Molly Marie, etc. But I also like Molly Agatha. Or Molly Frances, or Molly Jo, or Molly Vivian, or Molly Abigail, or Molly Ruth, or Molly Evelyn. Or this could be an area for giving your husband something he wants in order to get the more important thing you want: Molly Ryan or Molly Alexandra. Molly Alexandra gives you the initials MAC, which might be a cute nickname option if she wants it.<\/p>\n

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

Hi! I recently asked for help with naming my third baby, a girl.<\/p>\n

My top name was Molly, but my husband thought it was a baby nickname.<\/p>\n

Thank you for all of your help and the awesome responses!<\/p>\n

I’m happy to say that without much prodding, I was able to change his mind about Molly! He slowly began referring to her as “Miss Molly” (it may have helped that I played him the song “Miss Molly” sung by Willie Nelson, AND one of you referred to Molly Weasley, which he loved!) about a month before she was due. Two nights before she was born I asked him again about the name, and he said that he had actually started to like it! YES! So, I picked her first name, and he picked her middle name.<\/p>\n

Allow me to introduce:<\/p>\n

Molly Hazel, our sweet redheaded gal!<\/p>\n

Here she is with her adoring big brothers, Lincoln & Sullivan:<\/p>\n

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