I’ve read that it used to be common for a whole batch of new babies to be named in honor of a new president. Now it seems like it’s more common to AVOID a name that suddenly comes into the public’s awareness, out of a fear that the name will become too common: remember when the new royal babies were born and everyone was worried it meant the names George\/Charlotte were no longer usable.<\/p>\n
I love namesakes and honor names, so I would love to see us lean back the other way. We have a new president-elect and vice-president-elect in the U.S. this week, and so I am working on a list of some possible honor names for this new era:<\/p>\n
Abram<\/a> More suggestions? I left out some names I felt had too strong of a single association (Kamala<\/a>, Barack<\/a>, Hillary<\/a>, Biden<\/a>, Bernie<\/a>, Clinton<\/a>), or that felt too dated for this generation of babies (Stacey<\/a>, Christine<\/a>, Michelle<\/a>) and will have to wait a generation or two. Those are pretty subjective decisions, however, and will change with time, so feel free to mention any you think of that you think would work now or later on. Some would work beautifully as middle names even if we didn’t want to use them as first names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve read that it used to be common for a whole batch of new babies to be named in honor of a new president. Now it seems like it’s more common to AVOID a name that suddenly comes into the public’s awareness, out of a fear that the name will become too common: remember when […]<\/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-15003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3TZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15003","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=15003"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15143,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15003\/revisions\/15143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlexandria<\/a>
\nAnthony<\/a>
\nEleanor<\/a>
\nElena<\/a>
\nElizabeth<\/a>
\nFiona<\/a>
\nFord<\/a>
\nGarland<\/a>
\nGeorgia<\/a>
\nGreta<\/a>
\nHarris<\/a>
\nHope
\nJacinda<\/a>
\nJill<\/a>
\nJo<\/a>
\nJoe<\/a>
\nJohn<\/a>
\nJoseph<\/a>
\nJosephine<\/a>
\nJoy
\nJustice
\nKatherine<\/a>
\nLewis<\/a>
\nMaxine<\/a>
\nMerrick<\/a>
\nNancy<\/a>
\nPete<\/a>
\nPorter<\/a>
\nRuth<\/a>
\nSally<\/a>
\nSonia<\/a>
\nWarren<\/a>
\nYates<\/a><\/p>\n