{"id":13828,"date":"2018-10-24T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T12:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13828"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:34:16","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-rhymes-with-mask-sibling-to-rose-and-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2018\/10\/24\/baby-girl-or-boy-rhymes-with-mask-sibling-to-rose-and-nolan\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Rhymes-with-Mask, Sibling to Rose and Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

My husband and I are having a hard time deciding on names for our baby who is due in late April 2019. We don’t plan on finding out baby’s sex so we need to be prepared for a girl or a boy (although big sister insists this is going to be her baby sister.) Our daughter is Rose Elizabeth and our son is Nolan David. Our last name rhymes with Mask.<\/p>\n

We like old fashioned names but preferably not top 100 in popularity. Some girls names considered and not ruled out are: Juniper, Pearl, and Willa. Some boys names that we like are Samuel, Samson, and Lincoln. None of them feel just “right” though in the way that our other two kids’ names did. Rose is named after my very close cousin who passed away. Nolan is named for his dad’s favorite baseball player. My husband also says we “wasted the good name on the dog.” Harmon, which I actually agree with him on. I feel like it could have been a contender if it wasn’t already the dog’s name.<\/p>\n

This is most likely our last child. We don’t have any middle names in mind but I feel like we could come up with one more easily once we have a first name chosen.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Would Harvey work for a boy? I love that name and would love to see it used more.<\/p>\n

If you’re trying to avoid the Top 100, I think you would find any Sam- name too common for your tastes: Samson was only #608 in 2017, according to the Social Security Administration<\/a>, but Samuel was #21—and has been in the Top 50 for the past 30 years, and hasn’t been out of the Top 100 since the earliest online Social Security search results starting in 1900, so there are lots of Sams of many ages.<\/p>\n

Lincoln is more recent: it hit the Top 100 in 2013, and was #41 in 2017. If I had to guess, I’d guess it would continue to rise.<\/p>\n

More possibilities to consider:<\/p>\n

Rose, Nolan, and Aidric
\nRose, Nolan, and Alistair
\nRose, Nolan, and Archer
\nRose, Nolan, and August
\nRose, Nolan, and Branson
\nRose, Nolan, and Davis
\nRose, Nolan, and Declan
\nRose, Nolan, and Desmond
\nRose, Nolan, and Edmund
\nRose, Nolan, and Elliot
\nRose, Nolan, and Everett
\nRose, Nolan, and Ezra
\nRose, Nolan, and Franklin
\nRose, Nolan, and Garrett
\nRose, Nolan, and Gilbert
\nRose, Nolan, and Grant
\nRose, Nolan, and Harris
\nRose, Nolan, and Holling
\nRose, Nolan, and Keller
\nRose, Nolan, and Louis
\nRose, Nolan, and Malcolm
\nRose, Nolan, and Merritt
\nRose, Nolan, and Miles
\nRose, Nolan, and Reid
\nRose, Nolan, and Rhett
\nRose, Nolan, and Simon
\nRose, Nolan, and Thompson
\nRose, Nolan, and Wells
\nRose, Nolan, and Wesley
\nRose, Nolan, and Zane<\/p>\n

A few of those are Top 100, and a few more are flirting with the line and may cross it in 2018.<\/p>\n

I like all three of your girl-name choices in different ways. I think Pearl and Willa are my two favorites, mostly because Juniper feels more contemporary to me: it didn’t enter the Top 1000 until 2011, while little girls named Rose and Pearl and Willa have been in classrooms together for at least the past century.<\/p>\n

I got sidetracked here because I was interested: Juniper feels more contemporary to me, but is it? It certainly seems as if it could have been a companion of Ivy and Hazel, and I have been surprised by names before. I checked the Social Security database that goes back to 1880 (unlike the online search which only goes back to 1900) and includes all the names given to five or more infants of that sex that year (unlike the online search which only includes the Top 1000 names). I wanted to see if Juniper was in use way back then, but maybe just uncommon. In 1880, there is no entry for Juniper, which means fewer than five babies were given the name that year. In 1890: no Junipers. In 1900: no Junipers. In 1910: no Junipers. None in 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960. Finally in 1969: 5 new baby girls named Juniper. From there, here are the number of new baby girls given the name Juniper in the United States, at five-year intervals:<\/p>\n

1969: 5
\n1974: 23
\n1979: 9
\n1984: 6
\n1989: –
\n1994: 7
\n1999: 14
\n2004: 33
\n2009: 170
\n2014: 643 (plus 9 new baby boys named Juniper)<\/p>\n

And in 2017, there were 1,033 new baby girls and 6 new baby boys given the name Juniper. In Juniper we have an interesting thing: a contemporary name that fits well with the vintage revival botanical names such as Rose, Violet, Rosemary, Hazel, and Ivy, while also sounding similar to and going well with names such as Harper and Piper and Skylar and Paisley. The Wikipedia article on the name<\/a> suggests some possible sources for the recent usage: a song called Jennifer Juniper in 1969; the movie Bennie & Joon in 1993; the book Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary in 1998; and a cartoon series called The Life and Times of Juniper Lee in 2005-2007.<\/p>\n

Anyway! More possibilities to consider:<\/p>\n

Rose, Nolan, and Ada
\nRose, Nolan, and Alice
\nRose, Nolan, and Cecily
\nRose, Nolan, and Clara
\nRose, Nolan, and Cora
\nRose, Nolan, and Eliza
\nRose, Nolan, and Fern
\nRose, Nolan, and Iris
\nRose, Nolan, and Ivy
\nRose, Nolan, and Josephine
\nRose, Nolan, and June
\nRose, Nolan, and Lois
\nRose, Nolan, and Louise
\nRose, Nolan, and Lydia
\nRose, Nolan, and Mabel
\nRose, Nolan, and Marilla
\nRose, Nolan, and May
\nRose, Nolan, and Molly
\nRose, Nolan, and Stella
\nRose, Nolan, and Sylvia<\/p>\n

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

Our daughter was born in early April 2019 and we named her after my husband’s grandmother, Grace. Her name is Grace Evangeline, and it suits her well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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