{"id":14148,"date":"2019-05-01T08:59:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T12:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14148"},"modified":"2019-09-13T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T17:46:25","slug":"baby-girl-lauren-with-a-d-sister-to-josephine-posey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/05\/01\/baby-girl-lauren-with-a-d-sister-to-josephine-posey\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Lauren-with-a-D, Sister to Josephine (Posey)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

I wrote to you<\/a> about three years ago now for help with our first daughter (who we didn’t know was a daughter at that point). You and your readers gave us great confidence in our chosen girl’s name at the time, even though the whole discussion was around a male name. We named our daughter Josephine Rose; we call her Posey. We get mostly great feedback on her name on how it fits her and is so sweet, with a bit of confusion every now and again on why we didn’t just go with Josie (which they call her at daycare)…she just has a lot of names. But I think already, at the age 2.5, she understands her names and I don’t need to worry.<\/p>\n

Here we are again, this time knowing we are having another daughter at the end of August! She is most likely our last baby. I’m quite excited to know this is a girl, as it makes me feel like the naming process may be just a bit more simple…maybe.<\/p>\n

My husband and I have quite different naming styles (especially when it came to boys, so, phew!). He leans towards nicknames and only nicknames (no formal name) like Buck or Skeeter (for real). If it were a boy, we were leaning towards Sebastian, with the nickname of Bash.<\/p>\n

Most of me wants a longer, “formal” name with a sweet, vintage-ish nickname, to match her sister, but I’m not sure how important this really is. I really love the name Mae, and think the pairing of Posey & Mae couldn’t be cuter, but I can’t find a name I LOVE to derive Mae from. I just can’t get on board with Margaret. I know full well that we can go with Mae as the name, but can’t get over how I would love to have a longer name.<\/p>\n

So far, our names are:<\/p>\n

Mae
\nMabel (this is number one for me, but we happen to know a few children with this name, which isn’t a deal breaker)
\nMargot (could we call her Mae? I love Margot on its own, as well.)
\nRamona (Mona or Mo which is my sister’s nn, do Posey and Mo sound too rhyme-y?)
\nMatilda (Mae or Tilly)
\nHenrietta (Hattie)
\nPearl
\nBernadette (husband’s suggestion, wants to call her Bernie)<\/p>\n

The middle name will most likely be Patricia, after my momma. I’m a huge fan of names sounding good together (as I am sure we all are on this blog!), so it’s a must that it pairs well with Josephine and Posey.<\/p>\n

What are we missing?<\/p>\n

Thanks so much for reading through this lengthy ramble and for your help!<\/p>\n

xo Kim, Joe and Posey Lauren-with-a-D<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

In your shoes I too would be leaning toward another long name with nickname options. I’d know it wouldn’t HAVE to be that—but that is what the heart would want.<\/p>\n

I was all set to recommend Rosemary as a long form of Mae, and then I realized you could end up with Posey and Rosie. (And also Josephine’s middle name is Rose.) I am not much bothered by the potential for rhyming nicknames, but it would be something I’d want to have thought about ahead of time.<\/p>\n

Magnolia? I think you could get Mae out of that. And she’d have Maggie and Nola and so forth if she wanted them. Josephine and Magnolia; Posey and Mae; Josie and Maggie.<\/p>\n

Or Maeve is pretty, though it doesn’t satisfy my inclination toward a longer name. Josephine and Maeve; Posey and Mae.<\/p>\n

I think Mabel is a great idea, and agree that knowing a couple of other Mabels doesn’t have to rule it out.<\/p>\n

Margo(t) could have the nickname Mo, if you wanted.<\/p>\n

Bernadette is nice; other nickname options include Bennie, Betty, and Birdie. I especially like Birdie with Posey.<\/p>\n

I am very fond of the name Henrietta and would love to see it used more.<\/p>\n

I decided as I began this post that I would not try to push you into using Margaret: you have stated firmly that you just can’t get on board with it, and that is something I should respect. BUT I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I JUST LOVE IT SO MUCH. Margaret with your surname!! Josephine and Margaret!!! Posey and Mae, Josie and Maggie, Posey and Daisy, Josie and Maisy, Jo and Meg, ohhhhhhhhh!!! I require my fainting couch.<\/p>\n

Well. Well. I will not push. (Any more.)<\/p>\n

Beatrix or Beatrice? Josephine and Beatrix; Posey and Bee; Josie and Bea.<\/p>\n

Or Penelope. Josephine and Penelope; Posey and Penny (fainting couch); Josie and Nell.<\/p>\n

Or Millicent. Josephine and Millicent; Posey and Milly; Josie and Millie.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

Hi Swistle! <\/p>\n

Here with an update, thanks so much to your readers and you for the awesome advice! <\/p>\n

Mae Patricia Doren was born on 8\/25. We decided after going through all the formal names that Mae could be derived from, we really just wanted her to be called Mae. <\/p>\n

I love how it mirrors her sister in syllables, Josephine Rose, and how simple and sweet it is, just like her personality so far! <\/p>\n

Posey loves her but still refers to her as \u201cnew baby\u201d – we will get there! <\/p>\n

Thanks again, here are my girls. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! I wrote to you about three years ago now for help with our first daughter (who we didn’t know was a daughter at that point). You and your readers gave us great confidence in our chosen girl’s name at the time, even though the whole discussion was around a male name. We named […]<\/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-14148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Gc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148","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=14148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14339,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions\/14339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}