{"id":15323,"date":"2021-03-26T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=15323"},"modified":"2021-06-19T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T21:45:01","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-schoenfeld-sibling-to-william-edward-teddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2021\/03\/26\/baby-girl-or-boy-schoenfeld-sibling-to-william-edward-teddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Schoenfeld, Sibling to William Edward “Teddy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello,<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t decide on a boy name to save our lives. My husband and I are expecting our second child in the next few weeks. This is our second child awe are waiting until delivery to know if he\/she is a boy\/girl. A friend had your help with naming their son a few years ago and she suggested we write you.<\/p>\n

We have narrowed down our list (however still open to others) for each sex. Our last name is Schoenfeld pronounced \u201cShow-in-feld\u201d. Our first sons name is William Edward \u201cTeddy\u201d and we have a few names we can’t\/not going to use due to neices\/nephews already have those names. This include: Thomas (Tommy), James, Stephen and Andrew<\/p>\n

As far a girls names we have come up with we have narrowed down to
\nMargaret Frances and call her “Francie”
\nKatherine Frances and call her “Kit”<\/p>\n

We are struggling to find a boy name we love, can agree on and then figuring out a dilemma with neighbors and their names.<\/p>\n

Henry is a family name but I prefer not to call him Henry. I am happy to use in name baby\u2019s name though. My husband\u2019s grandfather was Fredrick \u201cFred\u201d and we both are open to using as a nickname.<\/p>\n

Boy names:
\nHenry \u201cWells\u201d Schoenfeld
\nHenry Whitaker \u201cWhit\u201d *favorite
\nHenry Fredrick \u201cFritz\u201d
\nSullivan Henry
\nHenry Tate and he would go by Tate -* Favorite<\/p>\n

The problem with two of our boy names is that our next door neighbors have 5 kids and two of them are Tate (2.5 yrs) and Whit (7 yrs). We are friendly with them but not super close. Our children play together more than we socialize with parents Is it weird to name the baby one of the kids next door names?<\/p>\n

Any insight would be helpful! Thank so much!!<\/p>\n

Maggie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Do you want our input on the girl names, too, or is this a situation of “We’re all set, and at this point we’ll decide when we see her?” I’m half hoping it’s the latter, because I don’t know if I can decide between those two. Margaret is on my own list, so normally that would be my vote, but I’m not sure I can resist the appeal of Kit. Teddy and Kit! Well, but I also love Francie. Teddy and Francie! I guess in the end I would vote Margaret Frances, but it’s such a close race.<\/p>\n

Now for boy names. If Henry Tate and Henry Whitaker are your favorites, I don’t think it’s weird that he’d share a name with the neighbor kid, especially with such an age gap (i.e., they won’t be in the same grade at school, even if these neighbors stay neighbors long-term). If I were you I would lean toward Henry Whitaker, first just because I personally prefer it, second because then he could go by Whitaker or Henry while playing with the neighbor kids, but also because it’s the larger age gap. If either Whitaker or Tate is a family name, that would be an additional point in its favor, especially since it gives you something to say to the neighbors. (If not, I would practice a light “Oh—yes, we’ve had it on our list for years! And of course your Whit\/Tate just made us love it even more!”)<\/p>\n

I also like Henry Frederick a lot. I hesitate in case he might want to go by Fred\/Freddy, which rhymes with your first son’s nickname—but I don’t think rhyming nicknames is a giant issue, especially since both of them have so many other options here if they want to avoid that.<\/p>\n

And I think Sullivan Henry is great (though I think Henry is better with the brother name and potential sister names), and Henry Wells is great, and I can see why you’re having such a hard time deciding, but I don’t think you can go wrong here. My own vote would be either Henry Whitaker called Whit or Henry Wells called Wells, with the final decision to be made depending on how much you want to avoid the neighbor situation.<\/p>\n

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

Hello!
\nThanks so much for your help!
\nWe welcomed Henry \u201cWells\u201d Schoenfeld into our family on April 13th!
\nWe used my husbands family name Henry as his first name however we are calling him Wells or as Big Brother Teddy calls him \u201cWellsy\u201d.
\nThanks again!
\nMaggie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, We can\u2019t decide on a boy name to save our lives. My husband and I are expecting our second child in the next few weeks. This is our second child awe are waiting until delivery to know if he\/she is a boy\/girl. A friend had your help with naming their son a few years […]<\/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-15323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323","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=15323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15486,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323\/revisions\/15486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}