{"id":14397,"date":"2019-10-30T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14397"},"modified":"2019-10-30T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:25:59","slug":"baby-girl-sister-to-boston-scarlett-isla-raider-and-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/10\/30\/baby-girl-sister-to-boston-scarlett-isla-raider-and-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl, Sister to Boston, Scarlett, Isla, Raider, and Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n

I am pregnant with my sixth (and last) child. My other kids’ names are Boston Striker, Scarlett Elsie, Isla Libby, Raider Cannon, and Miller Gibson. For eight long years we’ve had the name Hazel Maisie picked out if we ever got to have another girl. However, after all these years, I feel like the shine has faded on Hazel for me. I still love Maisie, and in my mind we have called this baby Hazy Maze for years. But I just feel like I can’t commit to Hazel anymore, and while I like Hazy for a nickname, I don’t like it as her legal name.<\/p>\n

Other names I’ve loved for a girl are Anne (Anne of Green Gables) and Rose for my grandfather who raised and bred award winning roses. But I never used them because they didn’t match my other girls and it was hard to break with what we had going. (Here is where my crazy hangs out. All my kids have a 2-2-3 syllable name. The girls have first names that can’t be shortened and the “ee” sound ending for their middle names.)<\/p>\n

I recently heard the name Navy for a baby girl and I fell in love. I think it is so sweet. And my grandmother, whom I provide end of life care for, wore Navy perfume my entire life. It seems a sweet honor toward her, especially since she hates her name and would be furious if we used her actual name as an honor name. We are now talking about Navy Rose to honor both grandparents and I love it, I love it so much I can’t stand it. But I feel like it is too unique. And it doesn’t match my other kids’ names at all in rhythm.<\/p>\n

Also, I’ve always felt like there is a fine line between fun and unusual, and American Gladiator names from Saturday morning after cartoons. So much so, that I have extreme name regret over Raider’s name. I feel like we crossed that line. When he was about a year old, I tried to talk my husband into changing it to Rider. Just dropping the A would have been an easy change for a baby and would have given him a more common name. I worry about his future trying to get a job and being taken seriously. However, my husband was a hard no. He insisted the name fit him and it was fine. The name does fit him perfectly, but I still worry about it. Especially with all the jokes you see about unusual names these days. And now I’m considering naming my child Navy Rose!? Am I just walking Millenial cliche?!<\/p>\n

So I guess I need reassurance. Is Navy Rose too ridiculous? Does it sound like a cartoon name? I can’t have name regret twice.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your input from a mom with 8 years of name regret.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don’t think the name Navy is ridiculous, but two things make me hesitate in this particular situation:<\/p>\n

1. The noun middle name Rose, which emphasizes the adjective sound of Navy and I think is what could give it that fairytale\/comics feeling.<\/p>\n

2. A sister named Scarlett, which gives you two color names in the same sibling group. (I’d feel similarly about the name Hazel, though to a lesser degree because the name itself is more familiar as a name.)<\/p>\n

I don’t think either of those things is a giant deal-breaking issue, especially with a name you love so much you can’t stand it, but they’re the kind of thing I’d want to have thought of ahead of time rather than afterward.<\/p>\n

If possible, and I realize such things are not always possible (and I might not myself find it possible), I think you should see if you can let go of the impulse to match things such as syllable-counts and “ee” sounds in middle names. These are things that absolutely no one will notice, and it’s hard enough to choose a sixth name without sweating the small stuff. Besides, Scarlett can be shortened to Lettie, and Navy already has an ee-sound. But if you must have two syllables and an ee-sound in the middle name, you could use Rosie. (I am not fond of that with Navy, though, because of the repeating ee-sounds.)<\/p>\n

Another option is to use Navy as the middle name. It has the right number of syllables and it has an ee-sound. You wouldn’t want to do Hazel Navy, would you? That might freshen up Hazel for you. It is two color names—but again, I find that less noticeable when we’re leading with Hazel. But you did say you can’t commit to Hazel anymore, so I think what I would do in your shoes is start experimentally looking for more first names you like, and see if you like any of them with Navy as the middle name. Fiona Navy, Clara Navy, Stella Navy, Bridget Navy, Mirren Navy, Cleo Navy, Louise Navy, etc. And then if nothing holds a candle to Navy Rose, go right ahead and use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle, I am pregnant with my sixth (and last) child. My other kids’ names are Boston Striker, Scarlett Elsie, Isla Libby, Raider Cannon, and Miller Gibson. For eight long years we’ve had the name Hazel Maisie picked out if we ever got to have another girl. However, after all these years, I feel like […]<\/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-14397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Kd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397","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=14397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14398,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions\/14398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}