{"id":15903,"date":"2022-06-18T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=15903"},"modified":"2022-10-13T07:46:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T11:46:52","slug":"baby-girl-pickles-with-an-r-sister-to-sawyer-and-sloane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2022\/06\/18\/baby-girl-pickles-with-an-r-sister-to-sawyer-and-sloane\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Pickles-with-an-R, Sister to Sawyer and Sloane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle!<\/p>\n

We are welcoming a baby girl in October. She is our third child, coming 5 years after our last so it\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve had to make these important decisions! Our surname rhymes with pickles but starts with an R. Big brother is Sawyer Ryan and big sister is Sloane Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

Names we both like Reese, Ann, Margaret. I like Molly and Mary but my husband does not. My husband really likes Selby (a family name) but I am not sure if it\u2019s too far out there and people will think we just forgot the h in there. Both of our other children have our middle names and so we don\u2019t want to leave this baby hanging with no family name but there aren\u2019t a ton to work with. Ann is also a family name. My husband is convinced if we name her Ann Selby she will marry a man with an S last name and have a bad monogram for life. Or if we name her Ann Reese she will marry another S man and have an English version bad monogram. I don\u2019t think we need to worry that far ahead as long as we don\u2019t give her a bad monogram to start with \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n

We aren\u2019t set at all on having a third S name child. That wasn\u2019t purposeful with our second but many people have asked us if we\u2019re doing that again and we can\u2019t even think of any that have topped our list.<\/p>\n

A few other names one of us has liked and one of us has nixed: Quinn, Saylor, Merritt. We are a name the baby before we get discharged type but will definitely send an update come Halloween time!<\/p>\n

Thank you
\nLara<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don’t think Selby is too out-there, and I like it a lot in the sibling set. I do think you will occasionally have people confusing it with Shelby, but not at deal-breaking levels. But if you think you may have more children, I might suggest avoiding an S-name this time to avoid backing yourself into a corner.<\/p>\n

I like Reese in this sibling group, too, though the matching R- and S-sounds with the surname is too much for my own tastes.<\/p>\n

Ann and Margaret feel like such a big style leap from the first two names—not that sibling names have to coordinate.<\/p>\n

For the middle name, I think you could use your middle name again, and that strikes me as a fun thing to do: you and your girls, all sharing the same middle name.<\/p>\n

I am a little torn on the subject of Future Married Initials. On one hand, I think it’s a smart idea to think things through ahead of time, even relatively minor or unlikely things. On the other hand, I cringe at the idea that we would name a girl differently than a boy on the assumption that a girl (1) will get married (2) to a man (3) whose surname she will take at marriage. Certainly we would avoid A.S.S. initials for a boy just as we would for a girl; but would we avoid A.S. initials for a boy, in case he might marry someday, and in case that spouse might have a surname starting with S, and in case he might change his surname to that one? No.<\/p>\n

If she DOES someday get married, AND it is to someone with an S. surname, then at that point I think we can trust her to make the decision about what she’d like to do about that. She can choose not to take that surname, or she can choose to drop her middle name and move her birth surname to the middle, or she can choose another of her options; I don’t think we need to try at this point to make that decision for her, OR to prevent her from ever having to make that decision. But back to the first hand: if you don’t feel strongly about wanting both the A. and the S. name and in that order, I guess I would choose something else, while feeling a little irritable about it.<\/p>\n

Let’s look for some more first name options.<\/p>\n

Aubrey; Sawyer, Sloane, and Aubrey
\nAudra; Sawyer, Sloane, and Audra
\nBlythe; Sawyer, Sloane, and Blythe
\nBrynn; Sawyer, Sloane, and Brynn
\nDarcy; Sawyer, Sloane, and Darcy
\nEllery; Sawyer, Sloane, and Ellery (-ry\/R- an issue?)
\nEmlyn; Sawyer, Sloane, and Emlyn
\nEve; Sawyer, Sloane, and Eve
\nHollis; Sawyer, Sloane, and Hollis
\nLaine; Sawyer, Sloane, and Laine (too many shared sounds with Sloane?)
\nMaeve; Sawyer, Sloane, and Maeve
\nMallory; Sawyer, Sloane, and Mallory
\nMaren; Sawyer, Sloane, and Maren
\nMarlowe; Sawyer, Sloane, and Marlowe
\nMargot; Sawyer, Sloane, and Margot
\nMaude; Sawyer, Sloane, and Maude
\nMorgan; Sawyer, Sloane, and Morgan
\nPaige; Sawyer, Sloane, and Paige
\nPeyton; Sawyer, Sloane, and Peyton
\nRowan; Sawyer, Sloane, and Rowan (too many shared sounds with Sloane? too alliterative?)
\nSasha; Sawyer, Sloane, and Sasha
\nSydney; Sawyer, Sloane, and Sydney
\nTeagan; Sawyer, Sloane, and Teagan
\nVivian; Sawyer, Sloane, and Vivian<\/p>\n

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Name update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Swistle and readers,
\nThank you so much for all of your thoughtful suggestions. We had so much fun reading through them. We ended up delivering early due to preeclampsia and spent two days trying to figure out what baby looked like once she came. Funny enough, we ditched the pressure we put on ourselves to use a family name and also went a different S direction and are happy to present Scout Reese pickles with an R<\/p>\n

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Hi Swistle! We are welcoming a baby girl in October. She is our third child, coming 5 years after our last so it\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve had to make these important decisions! Our surname rhymes with pickles but starts with an R. Big brother is Sawyer Ryan and big sister is Sloane Elizabeth. […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-48v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15903","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=15903"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16057,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15903\/revisions\/16057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}