{"id":14324,"date":"2019-09-05T14:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T18:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14324"},"modified":"2019-09-06T20:39:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T00:39:02","slug":"changing-endings-to-change-the-baby-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/09\/05\/changing-endings-to-change-the-baby-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Endings To Change the Baby Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

You remember we talked about names passing the mall test<\/a>: you’re out and about, you hear a name unexpectedly, and hearing it like that makes you realize you like it when you didn’t know you liked it.<\/p>\n

I had a name pass the mall test the other day, and it surprised me because it’s a name outside my usual style: Kailen. It takes the name Kayla and updates it with a fresher-sounding ending.<\/p>\n

Similarly, I read a book with a character named Connell, and thought that if it weren’t for Mitch Mc, I’d be recommending that name as a nice update on Connor.<\/p>\n

Changing the endings is a common way to make names sound new: Laura becomes Laurie becomes Lauren. I am wondering if you’ve encountered any recent examples lately, OR if you can make some up on the spot that you think would sound nice. (I tried this for a few minutes and was reminded that I am not good at making up names. Sophiella! No. Abigade! No. Olivian! No. Emman! No.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You remember we talked about names passing the mall test: you’re out and about, you hear a name unexpectedly, and hearing it like that makes you realize you like it when you didn’t know you liked it. I had a name pass the mall test the other day, and it surprised me because it’s a […]<\/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-14324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3J2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324","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=14324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14329,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions\/14329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}