{"id":13934,"date":"2019-01-01T11:49:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13934"},"modified":"2019-07-07T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:10:55","slug":"baby-girl-dillon-sister-to-eva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/01\/01\/baby-girl-dillon-sister-to-eva\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Dillon, Sister to Eva"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello!<\/p>\n

Our second daughter is due in April and we\u2019re having trouble with names. Our first girl, Eva Grace, didn\u2019t have a name until she was born, and I\u2019d rather not repeat that! I\u2019d really like another name that contains a \u201cv\u201d or starts with \u201cE\u201d and my favorite is Violet; my husband isn\u2019t sold. We\u2019ve also tossed around Eden, but it sounds a little strange with our last name. I prefer classic, feminine names\u2014nothing too dated or androgynous. Any suggestions for us?<\/p>\n

Thanks in advance (and happy new year!),
\nAdria Dillon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Some names that include a V:<\/p>\n

Ivy
\nMaeve
\nMinerva
\nOlive
\nOlivia
\nSavannah
\nSilvia\/Sylvia
\nSilvie\/Sylvie
\nVanessa
\nVera
\nVeronica
\nVictoria
\nVivian\/Vivienne (a little rhymey with the surname)<\/p>\n

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Some names that start with E:<\/p>\n

Edie
\nEleanor
\nElena
\nEliza
\nElodie
\nEloise
\nElsa
\nElsbeth\/Elspeth
\nEmeline
\nEsme
\nEstelle
\nEsther<\/p>\n

I left some names on the list even though they might be too similar to Eva, because you’re looking for some similarity and I’m not sure how similar you’d like to go. If you wanted Very Similar, Eva and Ivy would give you that: both three letters, both two syllables, both with a V in the middle surrounded by two vowels. It’s interesting how much differentness the names retain, considering all their similarities: pairings such as Eva and Elena or Eva and Olivia are in some ways more similar than Eva and Ivy, despite their different syllable\/letter counts.<\/p>\n

One thing I like about Eva and Eliza is that they both get an interesting letter in their names: V for Eva and Z for Eliza. But the matching E___a may be too similar.<\/p>\n

For a middle name, I love the idea of finding something that goes nicely with Grace. I don’t think there’s any reason middle names NEED to coordinate, but sometimes it’s fun. With Grace, I like pleasingly familiar virtue names such as Faith, Hope, and Joy; and also pleasingly short sweet vintage names such as Jane, Jean, Kay, May, and Rose. Eva Grace and Ivy Joy. Eva Grace and Eliza Rose. Eva Grace and Eloise Jane. Eva Grace and Esther May. Eva Grace and Sylvia Hope.<\/p>\n

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

Thanks to everyone for the wonderful suggestions! My husband finally came around…Violet Anne is nearly 3 months old now! Her sister continues to be less than impressed. :) <\/p>\n

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Hello! Our second daughter is due in April and we\u2019re having trouble with names. Our first girl, Eva Grace, didn\u2019t have a name until she was born, and I\u2019d rather not repeat that! I\u2019d really like another name that contains a \u201cv\u201d or starts with \u201cE\u201d and my favorite is Violet; my husband isn\u2019t sold. […]<\/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-13934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3CK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934","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=13934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14250,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions\/14250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}