{"id":14618,"date":"2020-03-27T11:12:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T15:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2020-06-20T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T18:53:09","slug":"baby-girl-taylor-sister-to-judson-and-willa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/03\/27\/baby-girl-taylor-sister-to-judson-and-willa\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Taylor, Sister to Judson and Willa; Goldie for a Non-Blonde?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi!! We are expecting our 3rd and likely final baby (a girl) in June. We already have a son Judson and a daughter Willa. We are drawn to more vintage names that are not common but familiar. Our last name sounds like \u201cTaylor.\u201d We can\u2019t seem to decide on the one!<\/p>\n

I really love the name Goldie but think it may be strange if our baby is born with dark hair. (Our son is brunette and daughter are blonde so theres a 50\/50 shot. Thoughts? We have thought about Marigold with the nn option of Goldie but not sure if it goes with siblings\u2019 names.<\/p>\n

Here are some other names we have tossed around:
\nFlora
\nRosie
\nDaisy
\nClementine
\nDelilah
\nHazel
\nSiena<\/p>\n

Middle name will likely be Lennon to honor a family member.<\/p>\n

Would love your thoughts on Goldie and other potential names to complete our sibset!<\/p>\n

Thank you!!
\nCaroline<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I am intrigued by questions of name\/appearance. This question has come up with other such potentially-interpreted-as-descriptive names (Rudy for non-redhead, Ruby Rose for a redhead, Annie for a redhead, why can I only think of redhead-related examples), and what I find intriguing is that the question can go either way: i.e., we can equally well ask if it is odd if a child named Goldie DOES have golden hair or if she DOESN’T. Like, maybe it starts to seem a little too much like those old stories in which three sisters have white, brown, and black horses named, respectively, Whitey, Brownie, and Blackie; or maybe it’s like if someone had a brown horse named Blackie.<\/p>\n

Well. I know hair genes are complicated (and also this is a name blog, but I am feeling caffeinated and chatty so let’s have a digression), but it is my impression from casual observation that a lot of kids with blonde hair grow up to have brown hair, particularly if there are any brown-hair genes in the family. That is, my Norwegian friend’s family has blonde kids who will all likely be blonde as adults, because my friend and her husband are both blonde as adults. But in my family, where Paul and I both had versions of blonde hair as children but now his hair is dark brown and mine is light brown, I didn’t expect any of our blonde children to make it to adulthood with blonde hair. If it is similar in your family, and I think it must be if you have a dark-haired child, then the question of whether it’s odd to have a non-blonde person named Goldie is pertinent no matter what color hair she’s born with.<\/p>\n

My own feeling is that I think I would RATHER use the name Goldie on someone who was not likely to have blonde hair. On a blonde person, the name Goldie reminds me in a small way of the nickname Blondie: descriptive in a way that could seem reductive. On a person with any other color of hair, it clicks in as a Bobbsey Twins \/ jazz era nickname name like Flossie and Dixie.<\/p>\n

I love the name Marigold, and I love having more options for names\/nicknames. However, if you’re only considering Marigold to get to Goldie, I don’t think that’s necessary. Judson, Willa, and Goldie; Judson, Willa, and Marigold. Those are both good combinations.<\/p>\n

However, the stand-out name to me from your list is Flora. It goes beautifully with Willa, and has no issues with hair color or being nicknamey. Judson, Willa, and Flora.<\/p>\n

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

Hi! I wanted to send an update to share that we welcomed our beautiful daughter,
\nMarigold (Goldie) Lennon on 6\/17\/20.<\/p>\n

She was born with a full head of dark hair and just knew she was \u201cGoldie\u201d no matter what color her hair is\/will be. We love Marigold and love that she\u2019ll have more name options. <\/p>\n

Thank you so much for all of your help naming our girl!<\/p>\n

Caroline<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi!! We are expecting our 3rd and likely final baby (a girl) in June. We already have a son Judson and a daughter Willa. We are drawn to more vintage names that are not common but familiar. Our last name sounds like \u201cTaylor.\u201d We can\u2019t seem to decide on the one! I really love the […]<\/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-14618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3NM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618","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=14618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14808,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions\/14808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}