{"id":13984,"date":"2019-02-05T09:23:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2019-02-12T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:58:04","slug":"baby-boy-weigh-with-a-b-brother-to-elijah-and-ezra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/02\/05\/baby-boy-weigh-with-a-b-brother-to-elijah-and-ezra\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Weigh-with-a-B, brother to Elijah and Ezra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi! I’ve looked through your blog while naming my other children and it really helped but this time we are stuck. Our last name sounds like weigh with a B. We have 2 boys, Elijah Reid who is 5, almost 6 and Ezra Lucas who is 3. We are stumped with our 3rd boy. He’s also our last child most likely. We are torn between sticking with an E name which a lot of people say we should do. My husband doesn’t want to and I’m not sure what to do. Names I currently like are Everett, Emory, Ethan. My husband is partial to Oliver. Non E names that I like are Owen and Oliver. We have waited until the last minute as we have a scheduled c section on February 7th. Please help us by offering some suggestions!<\/p>\n

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I suggest Isaac. It has the same hip biblical sound as Elijah and Ezra, and fits in well without adding another E name with an -a\/-ah ending. It also gives you another vowel name, if it’s intentional rather than coincidental that all the names you’re considering start with vowels.<\/p>\n

Or Malachi. Elijah, Ezra, and Malachi.<\/p>\n

Or Gideon. Elijah, Ezra, and Gideon.<\/p>\n

Or Noah. Elijah, Ezra, and Noah.<\/p>\n

Or Cyrus. Elijah, Ezra, and Cyrus.<\/p>\n

I don’t think you should feel any pressure for the third child to have an E- name. Other people may be pressuring you, but none of them are likely to deep-down long-term care about this. But if finding a third E- name would be fun rather than stressful\/pressurey, we could look at those. The main issue, I think, is finding an E- name that doesn’t clash with the biblical theme (e.g., Easton), but also isn’t too similar (e.g., Ezekiel).<\/p>\n

There’s a minor biblical character named Ethan, but it wasn’t enough for me to have Ethan in my own mental file of Bible Names. Still, with the E-, that might be enough to make it fit.<\/p>\n

Everett, while not biblical, has an old-fashioned sound that I think works well with Elijah and Ezra. I can picture those three as farmer brothers a long time ago. I see Emory was similarly popular a long time ago, so that might work well, too. I like how both Everett and Emory bring in a new end-sound.<\/p>\n

I am going back and forth about Ellis. On one hand it hits that old-fashioned note; on the other hand, it seems like having an Eli- and an Elli- is a lot, especially in a sibling group with matched first initials. And I’m not fond of the way the -s ending merges with the surname.<\/p>\n

Oh! Oh oh oh! EMMETT. Elijah, Ezra, and Emmett. I think that coordinates beautifully without being too matchy. My top two choices for you are Isaac and Emmett, with Everett and Emory close behind.<\/p>\n

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Name update:<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for your suggestions and everyone’s comments! It was definitely not too late as we were still undecided and it took us almost 24hrs after having him to commit to a name.<\/p>\n

I did love the suggestion of Emmett and it was on my list originally, unfortunately we live in the south and I dislike the way it would be pronounced here. I like it as Ehm-ett similar to how Emma is pronounced. But here most say Em-it with a strong southern drawl, lol. If that makes sense. We really considered Noah but wanted a consonant beginning middle name with it but nothing fit. Oliver was also considered since it was on both my husband’s and my list but once we saw him it just didn’t seem to fit for some reason. Ethan seemed to fit him perfectly and I didn’t feel weird about having 3 E names with it.<\/p>\n

Ethan Alexander was born on 2\/7 at 7:59 am via c-section. We are home and doing great. Everyone loves his name!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi! I’ve looked through your blog while naming my other children and it really helped but this time we are stuck. Our last name sounds like weigh with a B. We have 2 boys, Elijah Reid who is 5, almost 6 and Ezra Lucas who is 3. We are stumped with our 3rd boy. He’s […]<\/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-13984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Dy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984","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=13984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14000,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions\/14000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}