{"id":14629,"date":"2020-03-31T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2020-08-29T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T22:36:14","slug":"baby-girl-rock-with-an-l-veronica-or-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/03\/31\/baby-girl-rock-with-an-l-veronica-or-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Rock-with-an-L: Veronica or Rose?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n

My husband and I are expecting our first baby in early August and it\u2019s a girl! Her last name will be Rock-with-an-L.<\/p>\n

Because of our surname I\u2019ve always thought I would try to steer away from single syllable names and other word names.<\/p>\n

Even before we were married and anywhere near trying for kids, our girl name was always Veronica. It\u2019s still on our list but after it being \u201cthe name\u201d for a hypothetical baby for so long it\u2019s started to lose its appeal to my husband but I am not ready to give up on it quite yet.<\/p>\n

The name we both love and are leaning towards using is Rose. Naturally, it goes against all my \u201crules\u201d. It is one syllable, and it is another word name. Does Rose Rock-with-an-L sound too choppy? More importantly does it sound like a description? A rose coloured lock, or a rose shaped lock? Or am I over thinking it?<\/p>\n

The other girl name we considered is Josephine\/Josie but decided we liked Rose and Veronica enough to leave the list at those two options.<\/p>\n

She will have two middle names: Kelly (my middle name, and my moms maiden name) and Zofia (Sophie in polish after my husbands grandmother)<\/p>\n

Rose Kelly Zofia Rock-with-an L
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\nVeronica Kelly Zofia Rock-with-an-L<\/p>\n

Our boy names were Declan, Henry, Calvin, and Jack (unusable with Rose obviously) but didn\u2019t really have a clear front runner before we found out the gender.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your help! I will send an update when she arrives!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I think those are both terrific options. I don’t think Rose Rock-with-an-L sounds too nouny; it does sound nouny, but it doesn’t sound to me like it describes anything. I think it sounds nice, and memorable in only a good way, and I like the way it LOOKS too: two 4-letter words, both with an O as the second letter. Excellent name. I love it.<\/p>\n

But Veronica! Oh, I love it TOO. And with the surname! I perish.<\/p>\n

How will you choose? HOW WILL YOU CHOOSE?? I really think the only solution is to have two girls so you can use both names.<\/p>\n

Let’s have a poll on Twitter; it’s not perfect, but it’s what we’ve got. Go to the poll on Twitter<\/a> [poll closed; see results below:]<\/p>\n

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

Thanks for posting our question\/your suggestions! Rose Zofia Kelly was born earlier this month and Her name suites her perfectly! We\u2019ve been calling her Rose, Rosie and Rosie Posie so far :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle, My husband and I are expecting our first baby in early August and it\u2019s a girl! Her last name will be Rock-with-an-L. Because of our surname I\u2019ve always thought I would try to steer away from single syllable names and other word names. Even before we were married and anywhere near trying for […]<\/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-14629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3NX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629","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=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14915,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions\/14915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}