{"id":14487,"date":"2020-01-06T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14487"},"modified":"2020-01-06T21:07:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:07:49","slug":"baby-girl-sister-to-brielle-and-savannah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/01\/06\/baby-girl-sister-to-brielle-and-savannah\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl, Sister to Brielle and Savannah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Swistle,<\/p>\n

I need help with a name for my third daughter. My first born is Brielle and my second born is Savannah. There nicknames are Bri and Savi. We will be expecting our little angel in May. My husband likes the name Brooke and Paige.. I am torn, as I dont know if its ok to have two B names and leave the middle child with an S name. I dont want her to feel different.<\/p>\n

I would love any suggestions you can recommend.<\/p>\n

Thank you,
\nCandace Filla<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I am not worried about one child feeling left out or different because she has an S-name and her sisters have B-names: this seems like the kind of thing we worry about during the pregnancy and then it never ends up being an issue—or it ends up being the opposite issue, and her sisters are jealous that SHE has her own initial. (This is how I would have felt: mad to have to share, not mad to be left out.)<\/p>\n

(If it DID ever come up, you could play the Same\/Different Game: “Yes, Bri and Brooke start with Br-, and you start with S-. You and Brielle and Brooke all have double letters in your names, but you all have a different number of syllables: Brooke’s name is one, Brielle’s is two, and yours is three. You and Bri both have nicknames ending in -i….” And so on. You can include your name and your husband’s name to make the game more fun, and to widen the pool of people who don’t share an initial.)<\/p>\n

I do worry a little about how similar the names Bri and Brooke sound: starting with the same letter-blend is more matchy than starting with the same initial. And I worry a little that Brielle and Savannah are highly feminine names, while Brooke and Paige are preppy, low-frill names. And I worry a little that Brielle and Savannah both have nicknames, while Brooke does not.<\/p>\n

Popularity is another factor: Savannah was in style alongside Brooke and Paige a couple of decades ago, when the name Brielle was rare; but while Savannah has been holding onto its Top 50 ranking, Brooke and Paige have been diving into the 200s. Meanwhile, the name Brielle is rising, hitting the Top 100 for the first time in 2018. I think Savannah and Brooke and Savannah and Paige could work well as sister name pairings because of their earlier shared popularity, but that then Brielle feels like the odd name out. But if we look for other recently-gaining-popularity choices to go with Brielle, then the name Savannah could feel like the odd name out—especially if the little dip it took in popularity in 2018 turns out to have been the beginning of a decline. The good news: this is all looking very promising for playing Same\/Different, since we’re finding ways to make EVERY name seem like the different one!<\/p>\n

Finally, would the child’s surname be Filla, and is that pronounced like the way someone who dropped their R’s might say the word “filler”? I would probably avoid noun names that can sound like little jokes: Brooke Filla sounds like a riddle for a rainstorm, Paige Filla like a riddle for a writer.<\/p>\n

I was going to make a list of more options to consider, but we don’t have much to go on: we have two names your husband likes, plus two names the two of you agreed on for previous children. I think what I would suggest is starting over: BOTH of you make lists, and see which names you like best with your first two daughters’ names. My own inclination would be to find another name with a nickname, but that would only be a preference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Swistle, I need help with a name for my third daughter. My first born is Brielle and my second born is Savannah. There nicknames are Bri and Savi. We will be expecting our little angel in May. My husband likes the name Brooke and Paige.. I am torn, as I dont know if its […]<\/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-14487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3LF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487","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=14487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14491,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487\/revisions\/14491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}