{"id":14695,"date":"2020-04-23T09:28:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14695"},"modified":"2020-05-18T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:07:13","slug":"middle-name-challenge-celeste-_______-a-name-to-honor-a-j-and-an-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/04\/23\/middle-name-challenge-celeste-_______-a-name-to-honor-a-j-and-an-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Name Challenge: Celeste _______; A Name To Honor a J and an A"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi there,<\/p>\n

We\u2019re due in June with a girl – our second! We\u2019re naming her Celeste and planning to call her Cece.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been thinking to give her the middle name of Julia after my great-grandmother. Recently, another family member passed away who I would also like to honor. His name was Abraham. Are there any girl names that combine J and A? Julianne is not an option because of a cousin named Giuliana. Our daughter\u2019s last name is one-syllable, rhyming with Milk.<\/p>\n

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

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If Julianne would meet the requirement but Julia does not, then I take it we are looking for a name not just containing a J and an A (since Julia already contains a J and an A), but instead a name that has a J name and an A name combined, the way Julia + Anne = Julianne. You could make a whole bunch of combinations playing around with the A section and the J section of a baby name book:<\/p>\n

Adajane
\nAdajean
\nAnnajane
\nAnnajean
\nAnnajulia
\nAvajane
\nAvajean
\nAvajune
\nJoanna
\nJosianna
\nJoyanna
\nJudianna
\nJuliabelle
\nJunabelle<\/p>\n

I don’t know, some of those look messy. This is not really in my skill set; perhaps some commenters can come up with better options. I was hoping to find more that ended in -abel(le), in case that brought the name Abraham to mind, but kept running into trouble (Jeanabelle is pretty if you know it’s Jean + abelle, but otherwise looks messy, and also like it might be Jee-anabelle); and a fair number of J____abel combinations bring Jezebel to mind.<\/p>\n

Are you sure Julianne is out? If the cousin Giuliana is a bad association, or if the extended family is particularly possessive about names, I can see not using it. But as long as the association isn’t unpleasant, it doesn’t seem confusing or problematic to use a quite-different variation of a cousin’s name as a middle name.<\/p>\n

I also want to ask if you are sure you want to try to get two honor names into one middle name. To you, does a name such as Julianne or Avajean feel like it honors your great-grandmother and also a family member named Abraham? Other options include: because of the timing, choosing to honor just Abraham instead (were you close with your great-grandmother?); or, if you are hoping to have more children, saving one of the two honor names for a future child; or, changing plans entirely and using both the first and middle names as honor names.<\/p>\n

If you do want to honor both people this time, and you want to use only the middle name slot to do it, my own preference would be to instead make it a double middle name. I like Celeste Julia Abigail or Celeste Julia Gabrielle: Abigail\/Gabrielle capture at least a little of the sound of Abraham. I’m also seeing some name options I don’t know if I would suggest or not: Abreanna, Abriel\/Abrielle, Abra, Abria.<\/p>\n

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

We welcomed our little girl on May 12! After much back and forth (Ava? Alden? Juliette? Jane?!) we settled on Celeste Julia and absolutely love her name! She came a few weeks early, but we’re all home safe and sound thanks to wonderful doctors and nurses who cared for her during amidst this pandemic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi there, We\u2019re due in June with a girl – our second! We\u2019re naming her Celeste and planning to call her Cece. We\u2019ve been thinking to give her the middle name of Julia after my great-grandmother. Recently, another family member passed away who I would also like to honor. His name was Abraham. Are there […]<\/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-14695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3P1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695","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=14695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14741,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695\/revisions\/14741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}