{"id":15570,"date":"2021-09-19T11:04:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=15570"},"modified":"2021-09-19T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T21:48:10","slug":"our-favorite-baby-name-sibsets-starting-with-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2021\/09\/19\/our-favorite-baby-name-sibsets-starting-with-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Baby Name Sibsets Starting with U"},"content":{"rendered":"

First post of this series, with longer explanation, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time we are not listing our favorite names starting with a letter, as we did before: we are forming SIBSETS.<\/strong> You can choose any number of siblings, any number of boys\/girls, any number of sibsets. 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 U. I have been procrastinating on this letter. When we played the previous game with U<\/a>, I was pretty much at a loss; under pressure, I chose Ursula (which I at least appreciate) and Umberto (which felt like a cultural steal). I was also able to imagine using Una. I don’t think any of these work particularly well in sibling sets. Ursula and Una feel as if they both got U__a but one of them got more name than the other. Umberto feels like a style clash with Ursula, though maybe it works with Una: Una and Umberto, yes I think that’s pretty okay. Going back to the very short list of U names, I don’t see anything else I want to use, but if I were forming some sibling sets for someone else, I might pair Ursula and Ulysses, or (and I’d like to state ahead of time that I would advise against using the names in this next pairing, but I think they go together stylistically) Unity and Urban. But in short, I look forward to moving on to T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First post of this series, with longer explanation, here. This time we are not listing our favorite names starting with a letter, as we did before: we are forming SIBSETS. You can choose any number of siblings, any number of boys\/girls, any number of sibsets. This might be TOO broad in scope and, as we […]<\/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-15570","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-438","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570","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=15570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15573,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions\/15573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}