{"id":14177,"date":"2019-05-20T08:25:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14177"},"modified":"2019-12-11T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:29:00","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-lillibrand-does-vera-lillibrand-sound-like-virile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/05\/20\/baby-girl-or-boy-lillibrand-does-vera-lillibrand-sound-like-virile\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Lillibrand: Does Vera Lillibrand sound like &#8220;Virile&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a lifelong name-nerd and have been reading your site for YEARS; now I can finally write in with a naming issue of my own! I am pregnant with our first child, gender unknown. However, if it\u2019s a girl, my favorite name is Vera. Our last name is similar to \u201cLillibrand.\u201d I was saying the name out loud the other day and am now worried both names will run together and sound like \u201cvirile.\u201d Yikes. Do you think others will notice that or am I just reading into it? I just love the name so much!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have now said &#8220;Vera Lillibrand&#8221; out loud so many times, it doesn&#8217;t sound like real words anymore. I want to wait for the kids to get home from school and have them say it aloud so I can listen and see if I hear &#8220;virile&#8221;; I&#8217;m not hearing it when I say it. The word virile has a &#8220;rull&#8221; sound that is missing from the combination of &#8220;Vera&#8221; + &#8220;Lil&#8221;&#8212;like, I can see how it ALMOST hits the right sounds, but I think it misses because &#8220;rah-lil&#8221; fails to hit the &#8220;rull&#8221; note. I think it&#8217;s a great name.<\/p>\n<p>What does everyone else think?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello Swistle!<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, our worries were for nothing (for this baby, anyway) as we welcomed a baby boy on December 8th, which happens to be my birthday as well! Eli George \u201cLillibrand\u201d is beautiful and we are happy beyond words. Thank you everyone for your input!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6361.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6361.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6361-150x112.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Swistle, I\u2019m a lifelong name-nerd and have been reading your site for YEARS; now I can finally write in with a naming issue of my own! I am pregnant with our first child, gender unknown. However, if it\u2019s a girl, my favorite name is Vera. Our last name is similar to \u201cLillibrand.\u201d I was [&hellip;]<\/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-14177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3GF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177","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=14177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14467,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions\/14467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}