{"id":14254,"date":"2019-07-08T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14254"},"modified":"2019-08-22T07:07:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T11:07:45","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-sibling-to-rae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/07\/08\/baby-girl-or-boy-sibling-to-rae\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy, Sibling to Rae"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

My husband and I are expecting our second baby in August and are having a terrible time coming up with a name. We have a little girl, Rae, who is 1. We knew he\/she was going to either be Rae\/Ray as that is my grandfather and we both love that name. We don’t know boy or girl this time so are needing to have both ready.<\/p>\n

For a little boy, my husband loves the name Fred. My maiden name is Fredrick, so of course my family is in love with it. I am yet to be convinced.. I’m just not sure I can imagine snuggling a sweet little Fred. I don’t really know what I like, but am drawn to the more classic names such as Michael and Phillip.<\/p>\n

Girl names we don’t have much. We are tossing around Helen or Vivian but haven’t found one yet that sounds like the “one”. I, again, like the more classic names.<\/p>\n

Any advice for this baby that is going to be here before we know it?!?<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

A struggling Momma<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here are some things I love:<\/p>\n

1. Family names.
\n2. Maiden names used as first names.
\n3. The name Fredrick\/Frederick\/Fred\/Freddie.<\/p>\n

So I am 100% on board with naming a boy Fredrick. I think there are a lot of names that seem like they’d be odd on a baby, but that’s why so many babies get silly nicknames such as Peanut and Sunshine and Lovebug: babies are ridiculous, and too cute and small for anything serious. But babies grow, and soon the baby that seemed too tiny and squooshy to be named Margaret seems absolutely right as a woman named Margaret. If you gave the baby a name that seemed just right for a baby, you’d likely find the baby outgrew it alarmingly early.<\/p>\n

I don’t think you must continue to use family names just because you used a family name for your first, but it does make it more appealing to search out more family names. Do you have any other relatives you’d like to honor in this way?<\/p>\n

I further think that because Rae is an honor name, it’s less important to coordinate the style of the sibling names—but I still do like the idea of coordinating where possible. Rae is an interesting challenge because the particular style doesn’t immediately spring to mind. It seems to me it goes well with a fairly wide swath of names. I don’t know if these would work with the surname, but these are the sorts of names I’d be looking at:<\/p>\n

Alice
\nAnne
\nBonnie
\nClaire
\nDelia
\nEve
\nFlora
\nGeorgia
\nGwen
\nIris
\nIvy
\nJane
\nJean
\nJill
\nJoan
\nJoy
\nLucy
\nLydia
\nLynn
\nMarlo
\nMolly
\nOpal
\nPolly
\nSally
\nSylvie
\nTess<\/p>\n

Or would you want to do another “We use this name either way, boy or girl” name? Casey, Avery, Teagan, Lee\/Leigh, Bailey, Charlie?<\/p>\n

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

Thanks Swistle and everyone for your help! My sweet Fred was born last week and is happy and healthy :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! My husband and I are expecting our second baby in August and are having a terrible time coming up with a name. We have a little girl, Rae, who is 1. We knew he\/she was going to either be Rae\/Ray as that is my grandfather and we both love that name. We don’t […]<\/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-14254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3HU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254","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=14254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14315,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions\/14315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}