{"id":16048,"date":"2022-10-10T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T17:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=16048"},"modified":"2022-10-10T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T17:55:12","slug":"baby-boy-_______-banks-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2022\/10\/10\/baby-boy-_______-banks-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy _______ Banks Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, I’m 28 weeks pregnant with our 2nd son and we have hit a wall when it comes to his first name. Here are the details:<\/p>\n

Middle Name must be: Banks (family name)
\nLast name: Stone
\nOlder brother’s name: Elliott Zephyr
\nHusband’s name: Spencer David
\nOur girl name that may be used later: Vivienne Jane<\/p>\n

I am typically drawn to traditional, classic, American names. So far I like Pierson, Harrison, Colson, Colin.<\/p>\n

My criteria has been:<\/p>\n

1. A name that is obviously a name, not a made up name
\n2. Not too hard to spell or pronounce
\n3. Not extremely common\/trendy. Being a Jessica I had to deal with using my last initial all the time because I was 1 of a million Jessica’s.
\n4. Goes well with Stone. Names like River, Cole, Brooks don’t pair well when you add Stone after.
\n5. 2+ syllables. Longer names seem to go better with Stone in my opinion.
\n6. Husband doesn’t like the double S (first name and last name starting with S)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

We don’t need to worry much about repeating your experience as a Jessica: even the very most popular current baby names are nowhere near as common as the most popular names were when today’s parents were in school. The name Jessica was in the Top Ten from 1976 through 2000, which is so many years of Top Ten Jessicas. In 1987, according to the Social Security Administration<\/a>, Jessica was the most popular girl name and was given to approximately 3% of all new baby girls in the United States; in 2021, Olivia was the most popular girl name and was given to approximately 1% of all new baby girls: for every three Jessicas you encountered in school, there’s only one Olivia.<\/p>\n

From your list, my favorite is Harrison. Harrison Banks Stone; Harrison Stone; Elliott and Harrison.<\/p>\n

Alistair Banks Stone; Alistair Stone; Elliott and Alistair
\nAnderson Banks Stone; Anderson Stone; Elliott and Anderson
\nBarnaby Banks Stone; Barnaby Stone; Elliott and Barnaby
\nBeckett Banks Stone; Beckett Stone; Elliott and Beckett (repeats -tt)
\nBroderick Banks Stone; Broderick Stone; Elliott and Broderick
\nCalvin Banks Stone; Calvin Stone; Elliott and Calvin
\nFinian Banks Stone; Finian Stone; Elliott and Finian
\nFrederick Banks Stone; Frederick Stone; Elliott and Frederick
\nGabriel Banks Stone; Gabriel Stone; Elliott and Gabriel
\nGideon Banks Stone; Gideon Stone; Elliott and Gideon
\nHenry Banks Stone; Henry Stone; Elliott and Henry
\nLincoln Banks Stone; Lincoln Stone; Elliott and Lincoln
\nMilo Banks Stone; Milo Stone; Elliott and Milo
\nNolan Banks Stone; Nolan Stone; Elliott and Nolan
\nQuentin Banks Stone; Quentin Stone; Elliott and Quentin
\nThatcher Banks Stone; Thatcher Stone; Elliott and Thatcher
\nWesley Banks Stone; Wesley Stone; Elliott and Wesley
\nWilson Banks Stone; Wilson Stone; Elliott and Wilson<\/p>\n

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Calvin, Finian, and Gideon are a little iffy if there might be a future sister Vivienne. Henry may be too popular: I’m in a little pocket of what is apparently a No-Henry Zone, so it continues to feel classic-but-not-overused to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, I’m 28 weeks pregnant with our 2nd son and we have hit a wall when it comes to his first name. Here are the details: Middle Name must be: Banks (family name) Last name: Stone Older brother’s name: Elliott Zephyr Husband’s name: Spencer David Our girl name that may be used later: Vivienne Jane […]<\/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-16048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-4aQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16048","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=16048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16050,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16048\/revisions\/16050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}