{"id":13842,"date":"2018-10-30T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13842"},"modified":"2019-06-09T07:20:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T11:20:03","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-benton-sibling-to-milo-and-theo-should-we-stick-with-another-o-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2018\/10\/30\/baby-girl-or-boy-benton-sibling-to-milo-and-theo-should-we-stick-with-another-o-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Benton, Sibling to Milo and Theo: Should We Stick with Another -o Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Swistle,
\nI am hoping that you can help my husband and I out with our naming road block. We currently have two boys aged 3 and 1 (ironically with the same birthday) named Milo and Theo (surname Benton). Milo’s sex was unknown before birth, and was named after his paternal grandfather (Myles), since both Myles and Milo have identical meaning, we thought it would be nice to give our son his own name, yet, have the meaning remain the same to avoid two Myles B’s in the family. Theo, we knew was a boy. Throughout pregnancy, his name was Archer, but he was just born a Theo- and it suits him. At first I was worried that the two long O endings were a bit much, however, given that other letters are all different, I think both names are finely suited as a sibset. Now, however, we are expecting baby #3 in mid May and are stuck. Although it is too early to find out the sex, we are not sure that we will (this is our last baby, and we like the surprise). Our dilemma lies in the name selection- do we keep the long O ending for the next or is it overkill? We both like short names, so both of us are partial to four letters, two syllables (however we are also open to suggestions). Should we stick with the long O our possibilities lie in Arlo, Otto, Hugo (boy), and Juno, Margo, Cleo (girl). We both agree and like Arlo and Juno but are unsure if it is simply because the fit our trend. If we are not sticking with the long O ending, we have tossed the idea of a long O in the name to compliment the sound (ex: Nora, Nola, Toby). We also like Finn, Jane, and Felix (doesn’t fit any scheme but it’s cute and quirky in my opinion). We are just looking for some direction as to what you suggest from an outside ear and would appreciate any help you can offer :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I think you are in the happy situation of being able to go either way on this. Rather than deciding first whether or not to go with another -o name, I think if I were you I would try to choose favorites without taking that into account—at least early on in the process. If your top favorite name turns out to be another -o name (or if you find yourself really wanting to use another -o name), I think it’s a fun little theme; if your top favorite name is not an -o name, I think there are upsides to avoiding a theme—especially if you might have more children after this one.<\/p>\n

I really like your idea of instead finding a name with a long-O elsewhere in the name:<\/p>\n

Chloe
\nColette
\nElodie
\nEloise
\nFiona
\nHope
\nJoan
\nLois
\nNaomi
\nNoelle
\nNola
\nRosalie
\nRose
\nSimone
\nSloane
\nSophia
\nZola<\/p>\n

Brody
\nCole
\nJoel
\nJoseph
\nNoah
\nOwen
\nRoland<\/p>\n

Of your -o options, my own personal favorite for a boy is Arlo. For a girl, I am more uncertain: my own personal favorite is Margo, but sharing first AND last sounds with a sibling’s name is something I’d want to avoid. Juno is my next favorite; I like the nicknames June and Junie.<\/p>\n

And I think Finn, Jane, and Felix are all great with the sibling set, too! In short, I think you have a lot of terrific options.<\/p>\n

And let’s do a quick one-day Twitter poll: https:\/\/twitter.com\/Swistle\/status\/1057268327628840960<\/a> [poll closed; see results below:]<\/p>\n

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

Good evening,
\nBaby boy (brother to Milo and Theo) was born on May 27, 2019. We named him Toby Frederick Benton and his name is just perfectly suited to him.
\nThanks for all of your help,
\nSarah<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Swistle, I am hoping that you can help my husband and I out with our naming road block. We currently have two boys aged 3 and 1 (ironically with the same birthday) named Milo and Theo (surname Benton). Milo’s sex was unknown before birth, and was named after his paternal grandfather (Myles), since both […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Bg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842","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=13842"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14219,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions\/14219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}