{"id":15286,"date":"2021-03-05T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=15286"},"modified":"2021-08-29T06:51:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T10:51:08","slug":"baby-girl-rhymes-with-bowl-sister-to-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2021\/03\/05\/baby-girl-rhymes-with-bowl-sister-to-cam\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Rhymes-with-Bowl, Sister to Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

We\u2019re expecting our 2nd child this spring. Our last name is one syllable And rhymes with Bowl.<\/p>\n

I prefer traditional, timeless names whereas my husband tends to prefer uncommon names. I have a very uncommon name and his name is common, funny how that works.
\nJonathan, Benjamin, James and Henry are some names I like for a boy. All of which my husband vetoed for a more trendy name. Our sons name was our compromise, we call him Cam. We did not find out his gender until the birth and his name totally suits him. We ended up using a traditional family name for his middle name which I love and often call him by.<\/p>\n

Now we are expecting our 2nd, a girl, and I am hung up on names again. I really like Catherine\/Kathryn and we\u2019d call her Kate for short (spelling TBD), but it\u2019s so abrupt with our last name. I don\u2019t love the nickname Kat or Cat and lastly I fear Cam and Kate are too similar. We also thought about Elizabeth and Audrey for a bit, but are now leaning toward Sadie. I also like Abigail, but I fear it\u2019s too common.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want her to have an unusual name or one that is too cutesy\/she can\u2019t grow up with, but I also don\u2019t want a name where she is 1 of 3 or 5 in her class.<\/p>\n

Middle name will be Genevieve which is a family name. I\u2019d like to have a 3rd baby, but we\u2019re not making that decision until after we have 2.<\/p>\n

Please help, thank you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I think if the name Cam has not seemed too abrupt with the surname, Kate would also be fine—especially since it would just be a nickname. I think Catherine\/Kathryn is a great name for a lifetime, but I do think it would be wise to allow for the possibility that she might choose to go by Kat\/Cat.<\/p>\n

Is Cam’s full given name Cam, or do you call him Cam as a nickname for a longer name? If his given name is Cam, then I think Sadie works very well as a sibling name. If, however, he has a longer given name and goes by Cam as a nickname, I think my preference would be to do the same for a sister name. Sadie can be a nickname for Sarah, if that appeals, or for Mercedes (though Mercedes doesn’t seem compatible with your style).<\/p>\n

I think Elizabeth and Audrey are also great, and that Genevieve goes nicely with all. I don’t think you can go wrong here. At this point you may want to just let the list simmer and see which names rise to the top with time.<\/p>\n

And I wouldn’t worry too much about popularity. Even if you were to give her the very most popular girl name in the United States, she would be unlikely to be one of 3 or 5 in her class. The current queen, according to the Social Security Administration<\/a>, is Olivia, with 1.01% of new baby girls given that name in 2019 (the 2020 data will likely be released in May). That’s approximately 1 in 100 girls, and let’s say a typical classroom has 15 girls, that would be about 1 Olivia per 6-7 classrooms—so you can see that we’re not going to get 5 or even 3 Olivias in a single classroom except by the most bizarre and unavoidable fluke. I grew up when the name Jennifer was in its prime, given to over 4% of new baby girls (FOUR TIMES as common as the current most common name), and I don’t remember ever even once having 5 Jennifers in the same classroom; I’m not sure I can remember ever having 3 in the same classroom, but perhaps. Definitely 2 Jennifers at times, but not every time.<\/p>\n

The name Abigail is given to just under half a percent of new baby girls: approximately 1 in every 200 new baby girls. Picturing again a classroom with roughly 15 girls in it, that would be about 1 Abigail per 13-14 classrooms. Again, there are always going to be little anomalies (two Junipers and zero Harpers in the same grade, when both parents chose Juniper to avoid the popularity of Harper; three Josephs-called-Joey in one classroom one year), but in general I don’t think you’ll have a huge problem with duplicates, whichever name you choose.<\/p>\n

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

Thank you so much for your help! We went with another one all together and named her Leah Genevieve. Timeless yet relatively common. Thanks again!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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