{"id":15523,"date":"2021-08-04T09:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=15523"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:05:25","slug":"our-favorite-baby-name-sibsets-starting-with-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2021\/08\/04\/our-favorite-baby-name-sibsets-starting-with-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Baby Name Sibsets Starting with W"},"content":{"rendered":"

First post of this series, with longer explanation, here<\/a>.<\/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 W. When we played the previous game with W<\/a>, I chose Winifred and Warren, and I like those fine as a sibling set. I also liked Willemina and William, which I wouldn’t use together, but would use one or the other. And I like Wesley and Winston and Wilson; Wilson joins the Willemina\/William group, and I wouldn’t put Winston and Winifred in the same sibling set. Normally I would prefer not to use names as far apart in popularity\/style as William and Warren, but I might like it better if they were separated by other siblings: as I had more and more children, I became more relaxed about things like that. For example: William, Winifred, Wesley, and Warren.<\/p>\n

Oh! This is the first letter where I have enough names to play it that I am re-naming my existing children! Okay, okay! Then it would be Wesley-called-Wes, William, Winifred, Warren, and…hm. No, I run out of boy names, because after I use William I don’t want to use Wilson, and after I use Winifred I don’t want to use Winston. But that’s okay! Close enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First post of this series, with longer explanation, here. 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 […]<\/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-15523","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-42n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15523","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=15523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15524,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15523\/revisions\/15524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}