{"id":15863,"date":"2022-05-19T11:18:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=15863"},"modified":"2022-05-19T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:21:27","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-moody-sibling-to-conrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2022\/05\/19\/baby-girl-or-boy-moody-sibling-to-conrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Moody, Sibling to Conrad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello!<\/p>\n

I am stuck. I have one little boy – Conrad – whose name I absolutely love and adore. Maybe too much because it\u2019s making me not be able to choose another boy name!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m due in September with baby #2. We aren\u2019t finding out the gender, but if it\u2019s a girl the name will be Gigi (runners up: Gemma, Penny, Nova and Zara).<\/p>\n

I need some boy name ideas. I guess I\u2019m pretty picky because 1) I love Conrad so much and 2) my \u201crequirements\u201d\u2026
\n-Easy to say
\n-Easy to understand (I never have to repeat myself when someone asks his name)
\n-Easy to spell (I\u2019ve never had to spell it for anyone either)
\n-It\u2019s not a \u201cnickname\u201d for a longer name (I grew up with a nickname my whole life and hated having to correct people when my full name was used)
\n-More uncommon name, yet known enough to know it\u2019s a name (I\u2019ve only met 1 other Conrad, ever)<\/p>\n

It seems like all the boy names I find that fit most of the requirements are too boring or too popular. Some names I like but don\u2019t *love* to give you an idea of what interests me are: Jay, Dean, George, Rome, Clark, Dax, Rocky, and Banks. With the exception of the last two, they all just feel so bland to me.<\/p>\n

Last name is Moody. Sounds like Booty which adds to the difficulty\u2026 for example: Harry Moody sounds like Harry Booty. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m over thinking this part but the last name adds some limitations because it\u2019s more of a word not a last name to me.<\/p>\n

I would LOVE any suggestions or help!<\/p>\n

Thank you,<\/p>\n

Lexi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I am going to start with the nickname issue, because you mention you don’t want a nickname name because you grew up with one and didn’t like it—but your girl-name choice is Gigi, a nickname name; and one of the runners-up is Penny, also a nickname name. Even if you didn’t have a particular objection to nickname names, I would still be pointing out that Gigi seems like a fairly lightweight choice for a girl, particularly when you have a son with the solid serious name Conrad. If your son’s given name were Benny or Alfie (or Jay or Rocky or Dax), then Gigi would still seem lightweight to me, and would still be a nickname name, but it would work with the sibling set; as it is, it sends the presumably unintended message that boys need solid serious names but girls don’t. I strongly recommend reconsidering, and perhaps using Gigi as a nickname for Gemma G_____ Moody, or for Georgia\/Georgiana\/Geneva\/etc.<\/p>\n

Some of the names on your boy-name list also strike me as odd with an older brother named Conrad. It isn’t that you must keep to the same style, of course, and in fact the practice of using honor names for a firstborn means people are fairly accustomed to the firstborn having a name of a different style—but it seems wise to consider it going in. Conrad and Jay makes Jay seem lightweight to me; I also grew up with a ton of Jasons going by Jay, so it feels like a nickname as well as a stand-alone name. Conrad and Rome is a startling combination to me (Conrad and Roman would work). I would be throwing my support behind Banks (it’s on your list; you don’t find it bland; it works fine with Conrad) except that I found I disliked the way all -s\/-ce names combined with Moody. That’s highly subjective, however, so although I didn’t put them on my list, that doesn’t mean they don’t work.<\/p>\n

For a boy, the name that came to mind before I even consulted my baby-name books was Desmond. Similar to Conrad in solid seriousness, it is also fairly easy to pronounce and spell. Conrad and Desmond. More options to consider:<\/p>\n

Aidric Moody; Conrad and Aidric
\nAlfred Moody; Conrad and Alfred
\nAlistair Moody; Conrad and Alistair
\nArthur Moody; Conrad and Arthur
\nBarnaby Moody; Conrad and Barnaby
\nBroderick Moody; Conrad and Broderick
\nCedric Moody; Conrad and Cedric
\nDeclan Moody; Conrad and Declan
\nEdmund Moody; Conrad and Edmund
\nFranklin Moody; Conrad and Franklin
\nFrederick Moody; Conrad and Frederick
\nGideon Moody; Conrad and Gideon
\nGordon Moody; Conrad and Gordon
\nJoel Moody; Conrad and Joel
\nLeon Moody; Conrad and Leon
\nLeopold Moody; Conrad and Leopold
\nMalcolm Moody; Conrad and Malcolm
\nMiller Moody; Conrad and Miller
\nMurphy Moody; Conrad and Murphy
\nRussell Moody; Conrad and Russell
\nStanley Moody; Conrad and Stanley
\nSullivan Moody; Conrad and Sullivan
\nThatcher Moody; Conrad and Thatcher
\nThompson Moody; Conrad and Thompson
\nTorsten Moody; Conrad and Torsten
\nVictor Moody; Conrad and Victor
\nVincent Moody; Conrad and Vincent
\nWarren Moody; Conrad and Warren
\nWhitman Moody; Conrad and Whitman
\nWinston Moody; Conrad and Winston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello! I am stuck. I have one little boy – Conrad – whose name I absolutely love and adore. Maybe too much because it\u2019s making me not be able to choose another boy name! I\u2019m due in September with baby #2. We aren\u2019t finding out the gender, but if it\u2019s a girl the name will […]<\/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-15863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-47R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863","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=15863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863\/revisions\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}