{"id":15521,"date":"2021-07-31T10:10:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2021-07-31T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:10:51","slug":"our-favorite-baby-name-sibsets-starting-with-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2021\/07\/31\/our-favorite-baby-name-sibsets-starting-with-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Baby Name Sibsets Starting with X"},"content":{"rendered":"

First post of this series, with longer explanation, here<\/a>. I’m inspired to go fairly rapidly through some of these more difficult letters.<\/p>\n

You can choose any number of siblings, any number of boys\/girls. This might be TOO broad in scope and, as we play, we might come up with better guidelines. But for now, the idea is that we are imagining a little sibling set of children (they do not have to be our own children), and all of their names are going to start with the same letter, and we will just see how things go from there. As before, you can say as much or as little as you like about your decision-making process, and you can choose multiple sibling sets (“This is what I’d choose for two girls, this is what I’d choose for three boys, this is what I’d choose for one boy and one girl…”) or just one—whatever is most fun \/ whatever you have the time and energy for on that particular day. I liked the idea some people had of re-naming their actual children with matching initials. (I am not going to attempt that with the more difficult letters.)<\/p>\n

Today we work on the letter X. When we played the previous game with X<\/a>, I chose Xenia and Xavier, and I like those fine as a sibling set. I also liked Xanthe, which I think is nice as a third name in the set: Xenia, Xavier, and Xanthe: all different endings to balance out the matching beginnings. I’d also liked Xia, but I don’t like the way Xia is like Xenia with two letters removed, so I wouldn’t put it in the same sibling set as Xenia, but I like it as a substitute: Xanthe, Xavier, and Xia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First post of this series, with longer explanation, here. I’m inspired to go fairly rapidly through some of these more difficult letters. You can choose any number of siblings, any number of boys\/girls. This might be TOO broad in scope and, as we play, we might come up with better guidelines. But for now, the […]<\/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":[8,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-favorites","category-reference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-42l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521","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=15521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15522,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions\/15522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}