{"id":14922,"date":"2020-09-05T14:49:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T18:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14922"},"modified":"2020-10-10T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T16:18:46","slug":"baby-girl-fifer-louisa-jean-or-margot-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/09\/05\/baby-girl-fifer-louisa-jean-or-margot-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Fifer: Louisa Jean or Margot Virginia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

Longtime reader here, and currently facing a baby naming dilemma. Our daughter is due in a few weeks. She\u2019ll be our second and last child – younger sister to our son C!yde Thom@s. Our last name sounds like Fifer (like the famous actress, Michelle).<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve narrowed it down to two options: Louisa Jean or Margot Virginia. Jean is an honor name for my husband\u2019s side of the family, while Virginia is a nod to my side. We\u2019re not interested in switching the middle names (Ie Louisa Virginia or Margot Jean). I honestly love them both, but I\u2019m afraid I will regret not using whichever one we don\u2019t choose. We have not (and will not) ask our family and friends for their opinions because that always seems to lead to even more second-guessing and confusion. Hoping we can do a quick poll with your readers.<\/p>\n

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

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Yes, let’s do a poll! Here it is: Twitter poll<\/a>. [Poll closed; see results at end of post.] And don’t worry if you can’t vote on Twitter: we shall use that poll as ONE measurement (of people who can vote on Twitter—likely including some people who are voting without reading the post and without being baby-name enthusiasts, as well as many who HAVE read the post and ARE baby-name enthusiasts), and the comments section on this post as ANOTHER measurement (of people who have likely read the post and are baby-name enthusiasts, but are not on Twitter and\/or have more to say about their choice). I think one of the true values of polls is the REACTION to them, anyway: a parent may find they are hoping for a certain result, or feel disappointed at seeing a certain result, which is good for clarifying feelings.<\/p>\n

In the situation where you love both names and think you will feel regret either way, I will tell you how I would start making this decision: with the honor names. Here are two activities I would do:<\/p>\n

1. I would think about the person Jean and the person Virginia, and think about which one has stronger positive feelings associated with them. For example, if Jean were your husband’s beloved grandmother who helped raise him, and Virginia were a great-aunt you met several times, I would say the name Jean has the stronger feelings and the stronger reason to use it.<\/p>\n

2. I would look at how the honor names had been distributed so far. Which family’s surname do the children have? Is either the name C!yde or the name Thom@s an honor name, and if so, for which side of the family? For example, if C!yde is your father’s name and Thom@s is your brother’s name and both children have your family surname, then this time I would let the honor name from your husband’s side of the family be the deciding factor.<\/p>\n

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

It was so helpful to read all of the comments on your post about my baby name question. Interesting that the Twitter poll went slightly in the direction of Louisa, while the comments on the post were pretty overwhelmingly for Margot. Our daughter was born a few weeks ago, and we went with Margot Virginia! Thanks again for everyone\u2019s comments. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! Longtime reader here, and currently facing a baby naming dilemma. Our daughter is due in a few weeks. She\u2019ll be our second and last child – younger sister to our son C!yde Thom@s. Our last name sounds like Fifer (like the famous actress, Michelle). We\u2019ve narrowed it down to two options: Louisa Jean […]<\/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-14922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3SG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14922","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=14922"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14964,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14922\/revisions\/14964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}