{"id":14534,"date":"2020-02-03T08:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T12:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14534"},"modified":"2020-02-03T08:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T12:15:20","slug":"baby-names-with-bird-nicknames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/02\/03\/baby-names-with-bird-nicknames\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Names with Bird Nicknames"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hey Swistle, fun question for you. Sort of by happenstance, both our girls have historic names with bird nicknames. Katherine called Wren and Hilaria called Lark. (Okay, honestly it&#8217;s 30% full names, 20% Wren and Lark, 50% Doodle and Roo, from a lullaby I sing them.)<\/p>\n<p>We are not currently expecting, but it struck me as a fun sort of lying-awake exercise: what other names have avian and\/or natural nicknames?<br \/>\nI&#8217;d get particularly excited about something that led to the nickname Dove. Dora Verity? Paloma, I suppose. David!<\/p>\n<p>B.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That IS a fun question, and a perfect one for a day when it feels as if there is some faint hope that spring may one day return to our midst.<\/p>\n<p>I am fond of the names where the natural nickname Bertie can instead be Birdy\/Birdie. I think it&#8217;s a lovely way to handle an honor name that may not quite have come back into style just yet (Roberta, Alberta). I think it also works as a nickname for Bernadette.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard that that name Robin started as a nickname for the name Robert, and I haven&#8217;t been so charmed since I heard of Hodge as a nickname for Roger.<\/p>\n<p>As I sit in the waiting room of a doctor&#8217;s office, I hear a receptionist named Avis saying her name again and again as she answers the phone, and I think about how uncommon her name is, especially considering how close it is to the much more common name Ava.<\/p>\n<p>More bird (or similar nature-y) names\/nicknames?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Swistle, fun question for you. Sort of by happenstance, both our girls have historic names with bird nicknames. Katherine called Wren and Hilaria called Lark. (Okay, honestly it&#8217;s 30% full names, 20% Wren and Lark, 50% Doodle and Roo, from a lullaby I sing them.) We are not currently expecting, but it struck me [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Mq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534","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=14534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14535,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534\/revisions\/14535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}