{"id":13805,"date":"2018-10-11T10:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13805"},"modified":"2018-10-11T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:26:19","slug":"baby-girl-door-dee-sister-to-adam-august-and-emmett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2018\/10\/11\/baby-girl-door-dee-sister-to-adam-august-and-emmett\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Door-dee, Sister to Adam, August, and Emmett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!
\nI am a mom to three boys (Adam Charles, August John and Emmett Benjamin) and am due with our one and only baby girl in January. A surprise baby on all accounts, especially gender. You would think that we would have a whole list of names to choose from, but unfortunately we cannot agree on anything and I feel like it is hampering my ability to settle down and connect with this baby. All of my girl names from past lists sound tired to me now. We are looking for some fresh names for a fresh season of our lives. Our last name sounds like “Door-Dee”. If this were a little boy baby, I probably pick something more traditional (like our first-born’s Adam) to circle the wagons and bring the names back to classic. I always felt Emmett was an out there pick for us, but I do love it.
\nOur boys names are fairly traditional, old fashioned, and I love that style. But I am willing to venture to something new for the little girl. Our current top picks are: Marin, Blythe, and Sarah. I would love a name that is short, sweet, classic, but yet unique and stylish. Does such a name exist?
\nMy worries with Marin are the spelling and pronunciation issues. I think I can get over those and stick to what I like about the name and the spelling I prefer. I just have a feeling that this name is lacking something. It feels slightly dull, and that worries me for being my top pick!! How does one become truly excited about a name?
\nThe name Blythe is so lovely, but I am worried that it is too old fashioned sounding, even for us. In my mind I picture a young, creative, hipster….but I have a feeling that is not what others might think. I love that the name feels like a free spirit. Is it too much of a muddle in the mouth, and do these names flow well with my boys names?
\nThe name Sarah leaves me feeling content, however my husband frowns that it is too popular of a name, as he knows so many. It gives me peace of mind to use a name that is classic sounding, but on the other hand I feel that we might be missing our one and only opportunity to have a more unique and special name for our daughter. Sarah seems to be an awkward middle name choice with any of our other first name choices.
\nOther first name contenders are Grace, Laura and Meryl. Grace and Laura are beautiful, but have been on my name list for seven years and are starting to look a little worn out. I like the idea of the name Meryl, but feel it is out of step with our boys names and sounds heavy to me. My husband loves the name Mae, but I just cannot wrap my head around having an August and a “Mae”. Perhaps as a middle name? I also love the name June, but again, two children with month names might be overdoing it! I think Elise could be a possible middle name for Marin (but it sounds so close to Alicia (a name on our no list)) that I cannot use it as a first name contender.
\nHere are our other desperate names that we picked in order to say we have a list:<\/p>\n

Daisy (A D name with our last name sounds funny)
\nClaire (trendy)
\nGwen
\nHeidi
\nHilde
\nHope
\nMary
\nPaige
\nSydney
\nAubrey
\nWillow<\/p>\n

I feel like we are directionless and need an intervention. My husband tends to pick trendy names like Ella or Emma and I frown at each suggestion. I love the name Meredith, but that is also the name of my dear friend, and I would feel awkward using it.<\/p>\n

Other names that will not work for us include (mostly family names): Emily, Elizabeth, Beth, Hannah, Alice, Margaret, Marjorie, Annie, Rose, Lily, Eve, Mallory, Leah, Abigail or Alaina.
\nMy boys middle names are all an honor name for a grandfather or their father. It would be nice to continue the middle name honor tradition, but my options feel much more limited (Ida, Myrtle, Beatrice, Josephine, Witt) and I am inclined to skip the honoring for the middle name. Which leaves the field wide open and very challenging for both the first and middle name and leaves me feeling lost.
\nWe could sure use some help getting ourselves organized and in love with this name. I feel it would help me connect with this little baby girl who has turned my life upside down already. Can you help us find our perfect name? :)
\nThank you so much!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The name that came to mind as I read your letter was Clara, and then I saw Claire on your list. Clara Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Clara. Short, sweet, classic, stylish. Rhymes with Sarah, but less common overall.<\/p>\n

I see you have Claire marked as trendy, and so I think we should talk for a moment about the difference between trendy and popular. It can be a very fuzzy line, or more like a Venn diagram with one circle for popular overlapping another circle of trendy. In fact, I’m not even sure I can quite define it, but I can say where a particular name falls for me, and for me Claire can certainly be popular but would never be trendy. Well, I shouldn’t say never: I can see getting to a name where there are a ton of Claire-like names all in style at the same time, and then I might admit it was a trendy sound. But right now, it is just barely in the Top 50 (#49 in 2017 according to the Social Security Administration<\/a>), and I would not call it trendy. The name Clara was #96 in 2017.<\/p>\n

I would like to strongly encourage you to use an honor middle name for your daughter as you did with all of your sons. There can be a perception in our culture that boy names are important and that male names are important to hand down, but that girl names are less important and that female names are less important to hand down. Even if that doesn’t reflect the way you feel about it, I would want to avoid the appearance of it. And I think those are fabulous honor names to choose from, especially Beatrice and Josephine; let’s see what works with various first-name suggestions. I love Clara Josephine.<\/p>\n

I wonder if you would like the name Claudia? It’s a name I would have liked to use except that Paul once had a girlfriend with that name. It’s established but interesting, and I’ve never met one in person. I like the way it repeats the D sound in your surname. Claudia Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Claudia. I like Claudia Josephine best, but I also like Claudia Beatrice and Claudia Witt.<\/p>\n

Or Celeste. Celeste Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Celeste. Celeste Josephine, Celeste Witt.<\/p>\n

Or Camille. (I seem to be stuck in the C section.) Camille Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Camille. Short, sweet, unusual. I like Camille Josephine; I’m finding Josephine a very flexible middle name.<\/p>\n

Jane gives you some of the sound of June, without the months thing being an issue. And I think it’s such a great name. Jane Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Jane.<\/p>\n

Or Jean is sounding fresh to me again. Jean Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Jean.<\/p>\n

Lynn is a name I’d like to see come back into more regular usage. I suspect it got overused as a middle name so then everyone felt as if they’d heard the name a million times—and yet I know very few Lynns in real life, and no children named Lynn. Lynn Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Lynn. Lynn Beatrice, Lynn Josephine.<\/p>\n

Or Laine is similar but a more contemporary sound. Laine Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Laine. Laine Beatrice, Laine Josephine.<\/p>\n

Or Brynn. Brynn Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Brynn.<\/p>\n

Kay is similar to May\/Mae but avoids the months issue. And I think it’s charming with your surname. Kay Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Kay.<\/p>\n

Pearl would be pretty and unusual, while still being familiar and classic. Pearl Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Pearl. Pearl Josephine.<\/p>\n

I love the name Ivy. Ivy Door-dee; Adam, August, Emmett, and Ivy. I like to say those names together. Ivy Josephine gives me huge heart-eyes. I want you to use this name. I will try not to lean on it too hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! I am a mom to three boys (Adam Charles, August John and Emmett Benjamin) and am due with our one and only baby girl in January. A surprise baby on all accounts, especially gender. You would think that we would have a whole list of names to choose from, but unfortunately we cannot […]<\/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-13805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3AF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805","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=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13810,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions\/13810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}