{"id":14045,"date":"2019-03-04T09:24:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14045"},"modified":"2019-04-19T05:56:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T09:56:29","slug":"baby-girl-wylie-sister-to-violet-scott-and-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/03\/04\/baby-girl-wylie-sister-to-violet-scott-and-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Wylie, Sister to Violet, Scott, and Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n

I wrote to you<\/a> over 6 years ago and you and your readers were instrumental in helping us choose a name for baby #3. After 6 years of begging my husband, baby #4 (due in March) is a dream come true. My twelve year old daughter is Violet Noelle, nine year old son is Scott Brian, and our six year old is Simon Cooper. Again our last name is Wylie.<\/p>\n

I know I\u2019m struggling because I\u2019m worrying too much about choosing the perfect name for our last baby, who is a GIRL!! Also, when I started naming babies 12 years ago my list felt fresh and now it feels dated.<\/p>\n

Names my husband has vetoed:
\nWren
\nLane
\nFiona
\nOlive<\/p>\n

Names that I like that are too popular where I live:
\nHazel
\nLucy
\nRuby<\/p>\n

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The names we\u2019re considering now:<\/p>\n

Vivian- I like Vivian but worry it\u2019s too matchy with Violet.<\/p>\n

Lila Jane- Lila is my husband\u2019s favorite but he acknowledges that names are more important to me than him :) Sometimes I think I should just let him have this name but I can\u2019t get past that it blends in with all the Layla\u2019s, Lily\u2019s, Leah\u2019s, etc. Plus I don\u2019t love that I would have a Vi, Si, and a Li. That would leave my Scott a little left out.<\/p>\n

Calla- This feels like a modern choice but with a soft sound. My concern is that it\u2019s less established than my other kids\u2019 names.<\/p>\n

Hannah- I know this one is pretty popular but there aren\u2019t many where I live. It also has a soft sound and is biblical in the same way Simon is.<\/p>\n

PLEASE HELP. Am I missing something? For middles, I like Rose or Bea. I\u2019ve also been trying to brainstorm a middle name that is Springy since sister Violet has a middle name that\u2019s very winter when she was born. I think a middle name that perhaps ties her to her sister Violet would be nice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I think Vivian is great. It’s visually similar to Violet, but when said aloud it shares only the initial sound. It pleases me that this situation is parallel to the boys’ names: Scott and Simon (five letters starting with S, but different number of syllables and very different sounds), Violet and Vivian (six letters starting with V, but different number of syllables depending on how you say them, and very different sounds).<\/p>\n

Lila sounds much more similar to Violet to me, despite the different first initials: those repeating L and long-I sounds in Violet and Lila really catch my ear. And I don’t like it at all with the surname: if she were called Lila Jane without exception, that sounds okay—but without the Jane, Lila Wylie is right on the edge of being comical. Since Lila is your husband’s favorite, I might try to make it work as a middle name.<\/p>\n

Calla Wylie is a little hard for me to say with the surname, but not at a deal-breaking level. I like the flower theme with her sister’s name. I think it goes well with the other names, and I think there’s room to spread out a little when it’s a fourth child after a six-year gap: style coordination feels less important, even for someone like me who enjoys some good sibling-name coordination. It’s just so understandable that the parents’ naming style could have shifted, in addition to the change in naming trends in general.<\/p>\n

I wonder if you’d like Lillian. It’s somewhat similar to both Lila and Vivian. Lillian Wylie. Violet, Scott, Simon, and Lillian.<\/p>\n

Or Lydia: a little bit like Lila, plus biblical like Simon. Lydia Wylie; Violet, Scott, Simon, and Lydia.<\/p>\n

Or Claudia. Claudia Wylie; Vivian, Scott, Simon, and Claudia. I love this name and it would have been fairly high on my own list if it hadn’t also been the name of Paul’s high school girlfriend.<\/p>\n

Something from the Cora\/Clara\/Nora category? I like all of those with Violet.<\/p>\n

Or Josephine. Josephine Wylie; Violet, Scott, Simon, Josephine.<\/p>\n

Or Beatrix. Beatrix Wylie; Violet, Scott, Simon, and Beatrix. But perhaps “Bea Wylie” sounds like an instruction.<\/p>\n

Or Minerva. Minerva Wylie; Violet, Scott, Simon, and Minerva.<\/p>\n

Or Celeste. Celeste Wylie; Violet, Scott, Simon, and Celeste.<\/p>\n

Or Louise. Louise Wylie; Violet, Scott, Simon, and Louise.<\/p>\n

Oh! Maybe Margaret? Margaret Wylie; Violet, Scott, Simon, and Margaret. It gives you three names ending in T, but that’s fairly subtle.<\/p>\n

I wonder if you’d like Anna instead of Hannah? It has a trim refreshing feel\/sound to me recently. Anna Wylie; Violet, Scott, Simon, and Anna.<\/p>\n

Rose has extra freshness as a first name, especially with Violet, and I love it with the surname; and having just one syllable ties it nicely with the name Scott. In fact, look at all the ties: Violet and Rose are both flower names; Scott and Rose are both one-syllable names; Violet and Simon both have the long-I sound; Violet and Scott both end in T; and all four names have the letter O. Rose Wylie; Violet, Scott, Simon, and Rose.<\/p>\n

For springy middle names, I wonder if Wren could be saved from the veto list: sometimes a No for a first name can still work as a middle. Or the name Spring is pretty. Or what about Robin? Sweet and associated with spring. Or lots of flower names feel spring-like: Tulip, Hyacinth, Daffodil, Pansy, Bluebell, Primrose, Iris, Lily, Dahlia, Calla, Azalea, Lilac (similar to Lila), Daisy.<\/p>\n

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

Hi Swistle and Readers,<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for your thoughts and opinions in naming baby #4. She was born on March 28th. We decided to name her Vivian Joy Wylie. We love her name and we love her even more!<\/p>\n

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Hi Swistle, I wrote to you over 6 years ago and you and your readers were instrumental in helping us choose a name for baby #3. After 6 years of begging my husband, baby #4 (due in March) is a dream come true. My twelve year old daughter is Violet Noelle, nine year old son […]<\/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-14045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045","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=14045"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14129,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045\/revisions\/14129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}