{"id":14108,"date":"2019-04-09T08:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14108"},"modified":"2019-04-09T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:22:56","slug":"baby-girl-jorge-sister-to-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/04\/09\/baby-girl-jorge-sister-to-ev\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Jorge, Sister to Ev@"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle<\/p>\n

Back in 2014, I emailed you<\/a> for some help naming our then-gender-unknown child – if a boy. We went on to have our little girl – Ev@ Jorge (pronounced like the Western version, or the royal baby). Thank you again for your suggestions!<\/p>\n

We are now expecting our second child, another girl, and are looking for \u201cthe\u201d name. Ev@ was \u201cthe\u201d name even years before she was conceived, but this next one is much more tricky.<\/p>\n

My husband loves the name \u201cSabriel\u201d – a character from a book he likes. I\u2019m not a fan, as to me it sounds too much like \u201cGabrielle\u201d – which is nice but doesn\u2019t do it for me – and also sounds a bit made-up, especially next to a more classic name like Ev@.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ve negotiated S@brina, which I do think is lovely, except…<\/p>\n

(a) Does the \u201ca\u201d at the end of Ev@ and \u201ca\u201d at the end of S@brina sound too rhymey?<\/p>\n

(b) Is the recent revival of S@brina the Teenage Witch on Netflix an unfortunate or negative association to have? I primarily think of the Audrey Hepburn movie myself, but…I was also brought up with the old Sabrina show and that springs to mind too.<\/p>\n

(c) Are there better choices out there that go wonderfully with Ev@ that I might not have thought of? I love the names Ele@nor and Eliz@, for example, but husband isn\u2019t convinced and I\u2019m still not sure if two daughters starting with E sounds too matchy or cutesy.<\/p>\n

Any ideas or thoughts would be much appreciated!<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

I don’t think an -a ending is enough for a rhyme; I think Ev@ and S@brina together have at most a very slight sing-song quality that I would not at all allow to rule out the name. I think the two names are great together.<\/p>\n

I don’t think it’s too matchy to have two kids with the same first initial. I probably would avoid another name that starts with E- AND ends in -a, but that’s a very subjective line and I wouldn’t think it was wrong if you were on the other side of it. If you were planning more children, I might add that we get a fair number of letters from parents who feel painted into a corner after using the same first initial twice; but if you’re stopping at two, this isn’t an issue.<\/p>\n

I do think of Sabrina The Teenage Witch, but for me it’s a positive association: I liked that show and the character. And I have plenty of other associations with the name, so it’s a diluted association as well as a positive one.<\/p>\n

More names I like with Ev@:<\/p>\n

Audrey
\nBeatrix
\nBianca
\nCamilla
\nCeleste
\nClaudia
\nEloise
\nFiona
\nGreta
\nLouise
\nLydia
\nMae
\nMargo
\nMeredith
\nNadia
\nNoelle
\nRose
\nRuby
\nSimone
\nWilla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle Back in 2014, I emailed you for some help naming our then-gender-unknown child – if a boy. We went on to have our little girl – Ev@ Jorge (pronounced like the Western version, or the royal baby). Thank you again for your suggestions! We are now expecting our second child, another girl, and […]<\/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-14108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Fy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108","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=14108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14109,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108\/revisions\/14109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}