{"id":15686,"date":"2021-12-24T16:13:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T20:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=15686"},"modified":"2021-12-25T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T14:41:18","slug":"twin-baby-boys-sounds-like-smiles-brothers-to-hunter-lorna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2021\/12\/24\/twin-baby-boys-sounds-like-smiles-brothers-to-hunter-lorna\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Baby Boys Sounds-Like-Smiles, Brothers to Hunter Lorna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Swistle, long time reader, first time emailer. My name is Melanie, and my last name sounds like Smiles.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I never expected to be emailing you because I’ve always had a long list of names at the ready, and my husband’s style is similar to mine. We had no issues naming our first. She is Hunter Lorna. Her MN is in honor of my beloved grandmother.<\/p>\n

When we found out I was pregnant for the second time, I was hoping for a boy, who would be Paxton Lucas (MN in honor of my brother). Well, we were shocked to learn that I will be having TWO boys. The first will indeed be Paxton Lucas, and we are 99% decided on Camden for the second. We like that Paxton and Camden kind of match but aren’t too matchy (both two syllables, both end with N, both have a one syllable nickname, neither are overly popular). However, I am having trouble with Camden’s MN.<\/p>\n

The issue is that I have no more honor names left to use. I felt very, very strongly about honoring my grandmother and brother, but the only other family member I would consider honoring is my father. And frankly, I just don’t like his names (Carl and Walter) enough to use them. My husband Max is not close with his family, so he does not want to use any of their names. (You will be tickled to know that not only did he take my surname, but it was his suggestion to do so!) Also, we do not want to use any of our own names as honor names. I know you often advocate for that, but it’s just not for us.<\/p>\n

I do not want Camden to be the only child in the family without an honor MN. The only other person I am considering for this is my friend Morgan. Here are my questions about this.<\/p>\n

1. Is it strange to honor someone who is “just” a friend? She is like a sister to me, and we’ve been friends since Kindergarten, if that helps.<\/p>\n

2. Is that too many Ms and Ns? caMdeN MorgaN.<\/p>\n

3. Does it immediately invoke Captain Morgan?<\/p>\n

As you can probably tell, our style runs more contemporary\/surnames\/below the top 100. Here are some other names on our boys list, just for reference. (None of these are honor names.)<\/p>\n

Denver
\nMaddox (too similar to Max)
\nBrighton
\nBelmont
\nRiver
\nRowan
\nRonan
\nRohan
\nFinn
\nBarrett
\nCalahan
\nThatcher
\nCohen
\nSkylar
\nSoren
\nQuinn
\nAvery
\nBailey
\nMackenzie (too similar to Max)
\nLondon
\nPayton (too similar to Paxton)
\nAspen (too similar to Paxton)
\nHarbor (saw this on your post about naming a boy Harper!)<\/p>\n

This will be my last pregnancy. (We had planned on two total, so three will certainly be enough!) If one of the twins is a surprise girl, her first name will be either Fallon, Sierra, or Winter. We would have the same MN issue.<\/p>\n

Oh, and lastly, we want to stick with two syllables to match Hunter, Lorna, Paxton, and Lucas, but that’s not a dealbreaker.<\/p>\n

Am I overthinking this? Is Camden Morgan fine? Should I forget about the honor MN altogether and just pick something from the list above? Or should I switch out the first name to something that flows better with Morgan?<\/p>\n

Thank you!
\nMelanie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

I think it is a delightful idea to use Morgan after a friend you’ve had since kindergarten and think of as a sister! One of my children has a middle name after a friend, and I worried it would seem weird since the others have family honor names—but with time, it does not seem weird. Everyone has a naming story, and that seems to matter more than what specific type of honor name each person got.<\/p>\n

If Camden Morgan seems a little full of M and N, or too evocative of Captain Morgan, you could swap the middles: Paxton Morgan and Camden Lucas. One thing I like about this idea is that it makes it seem less as if one twin got your Ideal First-Choice Name and the other got runners-up for both first and middle.<\/p>\n

But if you don’t want to swap the middle names, I wouldn’t advise choosing a different first name just to get a better flow\/sound with the middle. In my experience, the flow\/sound of the full name is satisfying during the naming process, and after that it just disappears until high school graduation, when they say it so slowly the flow doesn’t matter anyway.<\/p>\n

I would also like to put in a vote for the name Carl. I think it’s a terrific, warm, gentle name that would grow on you with time. Camden Carl is pretty cute, and fun to say! Or I like Paxton Carl and Camden Lucas. I think the name Walter, too, is in the very early stages of a comeback, and will soon sound better to you than it does now. I used my grandfather’s name as one child’s middle, even though I actively disliked my grandfather’s name—and now I no longer dislike it: not only have I come around to it, but if anything I love it more for being a name I only wanted to use for the honor and not for the name itself.<\/p>\n

Oh, one final idea: you could use Lucas for both boys. Paxton Lucas and Camden Lucas. I have heard of a fair number of families where all the girls are given the same middle name, which is what made me think of it. Plus, I love fun twin-name stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Swistle, long time reader, first time emailer. My name is Melanie, and my last name sounds like Smiles. Honestly, I never expected to be emailing you because I’ve always had a long list of names at the ready, and my husband’s style is similar to mine. We had no issues naming our first. She […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-450","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686","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=15686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15690,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions\/15690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}