{"id":13974,"date":"2019-01-28T07:25:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T11:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13974"},"modified":"2019-05-28T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T22:49:44","slug":"baby-girl-j_____-sister-to-natalie-and-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/01\/28\/baby-girl-j_____-sister-to-natalie-and-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl J_____, Sister to Natalie and James"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

My husband and I are at an impasse choosing a name for our third baby, due in June. Older siblings are Natalie Rose (middle name after my grandmother) and James Hal-with-a-T (middle name after my father-in-law). I want this daughter\u2019s middle name to be Lucile, after my husband\u2019s 90-year-old grandmother. Our last name is a three syllable Scandinavian name starting with J. Another note is my name starts with J and my husband\u2019s starts with N. I\u2019d rather avoid these initials for this third child because it feels a little too theme-y.<\/p>\n

My husband\u2019s favorite is Julia, which I don\u2019t like mainly due to the first initial, but I also don\u2019t think it works with Lucile. It\u2019s also the name of an Italian exchange student we had (spelled Giulia) and I don\u2019t necessarily want to name a daughter after this girl, sweet as she is. He likes Aliana (from a novel he\u2019s read) but I don\u2019t like that style at all. He also likes what I think of as 1990s cheerleader names: Shannon, Jenna, Jamie, Kelly, Tiffany. I\u2019m not a fan of that style, either.<\/p>\n

My two favorites are Sophie and Emma. I know both are popular but I think I\u2019m ok with that. I like that Sophie and Natalie have the \u201cie\u201d at the end, and it\u2019s less popular than Emma (although if you include Sophia it\u2019s probably more popular). We have an Emma in our social circle who is 9 but don\u2019t know any Sophie\u2019s. My husband has said he prefers Emma if these two options. I like the sound of both with Lucile.<\/p>\n

Other names I like that he\u2019s shot down are: Lyla\/Lila, Sadie, Chloe, and Hannah. Olivia was a contender for Natalie, but his grandmother\u2019s first name is actually Olive, and he doesn\u2019t want to basically duplicate her name for this baby. I know we could use Olive as a middle name, but grandma has gone by Lucile her entire life so we would rather honor her with that.<\/p>\n

We have nieces named Kate Lucile and Elizabeth Lucile. Other names of nieces (so we can\u2019t repest them) are Audrey, Claire, Hallie, and Michelle\/Shelly.<\/p>\n

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

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I think Julia Lucile works well enough not to rule out the name, but since it also breaks the preference for a new initial AND there’s the exchange student issue, I agree it doesn’t seem like the right choice. And I am with you about Shannon\/Jenna\/etc.: those are going to sound fabulous on our great-grandchildren, but they need time to come around again.<\/p>\n

I think Sophie and Emma are both nice solid choices, and good with the middle name.<\/p>\n

I was going to suggest Amelia for its similarity to Julia, Aliana, Emma, Lila, and Olivia, but I’m not sure it’s right with Lucile. As with Julia, I don’t think it’s enough to rule out the name if you loved it. I find the slight sound\/letter overlaps with the sibling names appealing. Natalie, James, and Amelia.<\/p>\n

Or Anna: it pares down Aliana, and is similar to Jenna, Emma, and Hannah. Anna Lucile; Natalie, James, and Anna.<\/p>\n

Or Lydia: similar to Julia and Lila and Sadie, and I think Lydia Lucile is adorable. Natalie, James, and Lydia. That’s my favorite so far.<\/p>\n

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

Thanks for all the help! My husband actually came around to Lyla on his own, and that was initially one of my favorites until he shot it down completely and my friend named the cat we gave her Lila. But we\u2019ve decided on Lyla Lucile, and she should arrive sometime this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, My husband and I are at an impasse choosing a name for our third baby, due in June. Older siblings are Natalie Rose (middle name after my grandmother) and James Hal-with-a-T (middle name after my father-in-law). I want this daughter\u2019s middle name to be Lucile, after my husband\u2019s 90-year-old grandmother. Our last name […]<\/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-13974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Do","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974","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=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14195,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions\/14195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}