{"id":14174,"date":"2019-05-17T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14174"},"modified":"2019-07-23T10:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:39:27","slug":"baby-boy-anderson-brother-to-maren-does-isaac-sound-like-i-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/05\/17\/baby-boy-anderson-brother-to-maren-does-isaac-sound-like-i-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Anderson, Brother to Maren: Does Isaac Sound like “I Suck”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

I am obsessed with your blog and have been hunting to find previous posts to help my husband and I name our second (and last) child, which is going to be a boy due in July 2019! We have a daughter who is two and her name is Maren (mar like car + in) and we call her Mari (mar like car + ee). It\u2019s Scandinavian as a tribute to my husbands side and her middle name is Rose for my grandma. Our last name is the ever boring Anderson.<\/p>\n

Anyways, we thought we would have two girls because well his twin brother has two girls and a lot of our friends have two girls so we were all set with a girl name, Jillian. We were going to have her middle name be Rose as well as that\u2019s mine and it would have been a done deal. BUT, of course we found out it was a boy and we were not prepared with a name!<\/p>\n

We spent lots of time looking at Scandinavian boy names (to go with our daughters name) but they seemed too harsh (although we do live in MN so Scandinavian names are pretty common). So we landed on Isaac, and then I had been thinking about it and thought people will for sure call him I-suck if he were getting made fun of. I took my husband off guard a bit and called an audible and thought we should start looking for another name, one that isn\u2019t so easy to make fun of.<\/p>\n

Other names we like are:
\nWyatt
\nColin
\nGraham( although my husband eliminated because he likes names that have nicknames)
\nMarcus (but we took off because too similar to Maren)
\nMiles (my husband doesn\u2019t like)<\/p>\n

Our first names are Ashley and Nick so very plain Jane and wanted to give our kids names a little unique. We feel like Colin is somewhat unexpected, but does it go with Maren? I\u2019m worried that the names we like don\u2019t go with Maren but Isaac did.<\/p>\n

Last thing, the middle name we are set on is Russell after my husbands grandpa as Rose is after my grandma.<\/p>\n

Help us!! We are super planners and feel stressed that we haven\u2019t found a name we love!<\/p>\n

Thank you so much!
\nAshley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I know an Isaac, so I asked him about the “I suck” thing, and he says no one has come up with that yet. I don’t think it’s an issue, but perhaps more people who know\/have an Isaac can weigh in. It doesn’t seem like a natural leap to me: the “zick”\/”zack” sound is so different from the “suck” sound. I think Isaac Russell Anderson is a great name and you’re all set.<\/p>\n

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

Hi Swistle! Thanks for all your help with naming. Isaak Russell was born last week and we are so excited! We decided on a k at the end as that\u2019s one of the Swedish spellings to go with Our daughters name.<\/p>\n

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

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