{"id":13997,"date":"2019-02-11T09:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T13:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13997"},"modified":"2019-02-11T09:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T13:43:33","slug":"baby-boy-will-yums-hale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/02\/11\/baby-boy-will-yums-hale\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Will-yums: Hale?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

My husband and I are expecting our first baby, a boy, in late July. We would love to honor my mother’s family by using her maiden name as either his first or middle name. (I recently lost my grandmother, whom I loved very much, as well as an uncle. The past two years have been hard for my family, and this baby is a joy and sign of hope for all of us.) That name is Hale (pronounced hail). The baby will take my husband’s last name, which is said like Will-yums. I like that Hale is uncommon, since his surname is very common.<\/p>\n

We like Hale Alexander. Hale Hudson is another idea. I also love Ezra Hale, but my husband isn’t a fan of the name Ezra. Other boy names we like are Leo, Ronan, Sebastian, Silas, Arthur, Tate, Rhys, Luca, Archer, and Louis.<\/p>\n

Do you have suggestions for middle names that go with Hale as a first name, or first names to go with Hale as a middle? Nothing sounds 100 percent perfect to us just yet.<\/p>\n

We plan on having at least one more child. If we had ended up with a girl, we liked Clara, Julia, Ruby, Elodie, Esm\u00e9, and Isla. We likely would have named her Clara Hale\u2014Clara sounds like my grandma’s first name, and they would have shared initials.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I think I would use Hale as a middle name. It has two issues as a first name: it sounds like the command “Hail,” and it’s one of the pronunciations of the word “hell.” Neither of those things is a huge deal (how often does anyone say “Hail” anymore? and no one is going to think you named your child Hell, even if you move to an area where that’s the local accent), but together they motivate me to find a first name that sounds great with it—maybe another family name?<\/p>\n

From your list, my favorites are Louis Hale, Arthur Hale, and Leo Hale. (I like Ezra Hale best of all.) If possible, I would avoid looking for a name that is 100% perfect; it’s too high a goal, especially when trying to incorporate an honor name.<\/p>\n

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

Aidric Hale Will-yums
\nElliot Hale Will-yums
\nEverett Hale Will-yums
\nFrederick Hale Will-yums
\nGideon Hall Will-yums
\nJulian Hale Will-yums
\nOliver Hale Will-yums
\nSimon Hale Will-yums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, My husband and I are expecting our first baby, a boy, in late July. We would love to honor my mother’s family by using her maiden name as either his first or middle name. (I recently lost my grandmother, whom I loved very much, as well as an uncle. The past two years […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3DL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997","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=13997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13999,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997\/revisions\/13999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}