{"id":13443,"date":"2018-06-11T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13443"},"modified":"2018-06-11T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:19:04","slug":"baby-girl-sister-to-everett-and-pierson-bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2018\/06\/11\/baby-girl-sister-to-everett-and-pierson-bo\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl, Sister to Everett and Pierson (Bo)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi there,<\/p>\n

We just found out we are having a baby girl! We are over the moon!!! We already have two boys \u2014 Everett Christian (goes by Everett) and Pierson Bost (goes by Bo). All of our names are derived from family names, so we would like to continue the trend.<\/p>\n

My mother is battling cancer and she is my rock, my best friend. Her name is Colleen, which I have never really loved as a potential baby name. Her mother, my grandmother, is Charlotte, who is also an inspiration and I happen to love her name. Lastly, my sister\u2019s middle name is Kathleen and my SIL is Katherine. From all of this, we were thinking about the name Charlotte Katherine, nn Charlie Kate. Only problem is it leaves out my mom! So then we thought about Charlotte Kathleen, same nn. The \u201ceen\u201d in Colleen makes it into the name and so does my sister\u2019s middle name. Of course, my husband likes the sound of Katherine better.<\/p>\n

Finally, since we already have an Everett is Charlotte to similar sounding for a sibling name? I\u2019m sure we would rarely call her by her full name, so does this matter?<\/p>\n

Thanks in advance!!!
\nMeg Biggers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It sounds to me as if the main issue is that you are trying to cram too many honor names into one baby’s name. I suggest prioritizing: which family member(s) do you MOST want to honor? It sounds as if you most want to honor your mother, but you don’t want to use her name. The question, then, is this: What’s more important to you: honoring your mother or using a name you prefer?<\/p>\n

The fact that I’m asking the question will imply that I think you should consider it more important to honor your mother, and that is not the case. But it’s rare for family honor names to coincidentally be the same as our favorite names, so usually a trade is involved: you give up a name you love more, in exchange for the satisfaction of honoring a family member, pleasing them with that honor, and remembering them every time you use the name.<\/p>\n

When I was pregnant with my first son, I struggled with this decision: I most wanted to honor my grandfather, but I actively disliked his name—and, awkwardly, it was the name of a former serious boyfriend of mine. We ended up using it as the middle name, and I’m so glad: I feel warm satisfaction with that choice, and happiness at the memory of how thrilled my grandfather was about it. To my surprise, I have also come to like the name; I still wouldn’t want to use it as a first name, but I actively like it.<\/p>\n

If it’s more important to you to honor your mother, I think you should use her name, probably as a middle name. If the child is named Charlotte Kathleen, and you have a grandmother Charlotte and a sister whose middle name is Kathleen, I don’t think your mother is going to think the -een of Kathleen is a tribute to herself. I suggest Charlotte Colleen, honoring your grandmother and mother while also giving you a first name you love.<\/p>\n

I realize this loses you the nickname Charlie Kate. I suggest it anyway.<\/p>\n

I don’t think Charlotte is too close to Everett. I see the matching endings, but even if you do end up calling her by her given name, I think it would be fine—and worth it, for the honor name. It helps too that another child is in between: Everett, Bo, and Charlotte is less noticeable than Everett, Charlotte, and Bo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi there, We just found out we are having a baby girl! We are over the moon!!! We already have two boys \u2014 Everett Christian (goes by Everett) and Pierson Bost (goes by Bo). All of our names are derived from family names, so we would like to continue the trend. My mother is battling […]<\/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-13443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3uP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443","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=13443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13448,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13443\/revisions\/13448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}