{"id":14771,"date":"2020-05-25T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T13:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14771"},"modified":"2020-05-25T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T13:17:10","slug":"baby-boy-crosby-sibling-to-miles-and-neeva-joiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/05\/25\/baby-boy-crosby-sibling-to-miles-and-neeva-joiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Crosby, Sibling to Miles and Neeva: Joiner?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello!!<\/p>\n

I just found out I am having a boy! This is my third child. My first is a boy (Miles David Crosby) and my second is a girl (Neeva Jean Crosby). My husband\u2019s name is David Arnold Crosby III – and he goes by Tripp as the third. We agreed to not name our first boy David Arnold Crosby and didn\u2019t follow the tradition. It just wasn\u2019t something I felt great about. My husband is the perfect \u201cTripp\u201d (he is a comedian) and it just fits him so well. We didn\u2019t have a good name for the fourth that we felt good about so we nodded to his name by giving Miles the middle name David.<\/p>\n

My second, my daughter, has a very special name after the woman who adopted my grandmother and saved our family. Her middle name is the same middle name of my husband\u2019s grandmother.<\/p>\n

Ok enough about them!<\/p>\n

My third is a boy and I am so excited\u2026 but all of the names we liked were girl names. My maiden name is Joiner. My husband loves the idea of using Joiner as a first name. I haven\u2019t been able to hear it as a first name but I am trying to figure out if that\u2019s just because it has been my last name for my whole life! Another option would be my mother\u2019s maiden name, Dean. Which I really love but my husband isn\u2019t sure about. I think I am just trying to figure out if we would always get a weird response to the first name Joiner or if it would catch on as a first name.<\/p>\n

Please help!<\/p>\n

Hannah<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I am so keen on using family surnames as first names when possible. I think Joiner might work as a first name, though I am going back and forth about it. I do like it better with the “It’s my maiden name” explanation. And I like it a little better if I think of Joi as sounding like Joy. And it certain ought to fit with all the other occupational names: Mason, Sawyer, Carter, Cooper. But I didn’t know joiner was an occupation until I looked it up, so my first association was somewhat negative: “a joiner,” like “a follower,” is not something we generally use as a positive way to describe someone. And Joiner is not currently used at all as a first name in the U.S., and so I think part of the package deal of this name would be a fair amount of repeating, explaining, and spelling. Still, if I picture encountering this name in the wild and then hearing “It’s my maiden name” (or, later, “It’s my mother’s maiden name”), I immediately like it a whole lot more.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how well it works in the sibling group: Miles, Neeva, and Joiner. Miles could be considered a surname name, too, but a more familiar one than Joiner, and also of course much more familiar than Joiner as a first name. But if I imagine brothers named Miles and Joiner, it seems like a slightly startling style shift.<\/p>\n

But DEAN. You have the option of using DEAN and you’re not IMMEDIATELY SPRINGING ON IT?? Miles, Neeva, and Dean is an amazing sibling group. And it’s your mother’s maiden name! And a familiar surname and first name! I love it. Dean Crosby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello!! I just found out I am having a boy! This is my third child. My first is a boy (Miles David Crosby) and my second is a girl (Neeva Jean Crosby). My husband\u2019s name is David Arnold Crosby III – and he goes by Tripp as the third. We agreed to not name our […]<\/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-14771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771","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=14771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14774,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions\/14774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}