{"id":16107,"date":"2022-12-30T17:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=16107"},"modified":"2022-12-31T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T18:06:41","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-kershmen-sibling-to-brady-walker-and-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2022\/12\/30\/baby-girl-or-boy-kershmen-sibling-to-brady-walker-and-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Kershmen, Sibling to Brady, Walker, and Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swistle –<\/p>\n

We are expecting our fourth and *probably* final baby (I have to stop at some point \ud83d\ude02). We have three boys: Brady Mills, Walker Lee and Davis Blake. Last name sounds like Kershmen. Middle names of all the boys are family names (my maiden, my middle, husband\u2019s middle).<\/p>\n

We have a girl name picked out, but are kind of stuck on a boy name, and let\u2019s be honest: after three boys we are fully expecting one more! We both really like Rex but are worried it\u2019s too\u2026 something. Maybe too dog-name? Too country? Too \u2018not a name\u2019? Too T-Rex? I like that it has the \u2018Max\u2019 sound but is not as popular, but I\u2019m wondering if our name vision is clouded and it actually is a ridiculous name. Middle name would probably be Ellis (it\u2019s a distant family name but we\u2019ve run out of closer family names that we like). So top contenders as of now:<\/p>\n

Rex Ellis (initials would be REK and I like that it kind of sounds like the name)
\nReid Ellis
\nJenkins Drew (Drew is both of our brothers\u2019 names, and we like the nn Jenks but I\u2019m worried about the \u2018Jaynkins\u2019 pronunciation)
\nCal (not sure on a middle, and it would just be cal – I\u2019m not a fan of any of the longer versions)<\/p>\n

Other names we like:
\nJett
\nMack
\nRowan (Row)<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t want to repeat initials with any of our other boys. What do you think of Rex, and do you have any other suggestions that go with our naming style??<\/p>\n

Thank you!!<\/p>\n

P.s. your readers helped us with Brady\u2019s name<\/a> and I wrote in for help with a girl name<\/a> on our 3rd baby, who obviously turned out to be a boy!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don’t think Rex is a ridiculous option (I think of Rex Harrison, though I see in that case it was a nickname for Reginald), but I find that when I say “Brady, Walker, Davis, and Rex,” something about it hits an odd note. Whereas when I say “Brady, Walker, Davis, and Reid,” everything feels like it clicks together. I wonder if you could name him Reid Ellis and then get Rex\/Reks as an nickname from the initials. (This is less of an issue, but also I find “Rex Ellis” a little uncomfortable to say.)<\/p>\n

I get a similar odd note if I try the group with Jett and Mack, so I wonder if it’s that those names don’t seem like the same style as the other boys’ names—especially coming so close after the somewhat formal-sounding Davis. That is, Brady and Mack seems like an okay combination to me, but Davis and Mack hits the odd note. I should say, though, that after three or so kids, I definitely stopped worrying so much about the names Going Together, even though it continued to be one of my highest preferences: it just gets harder and harder to DO, and also the parents’ naming style may subtly shift over the sheer amount of TIME it takes to have a bunch of kids.<\/p>\n

Similar to Reid: Rhys. Rhys Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Rhys. I am slightly disinclined to do an -s ending right after another sibling with an -s ending, but on the other hand in my own situation it turned out that those kinds of considerations faded significantly after I was out of the naming process. Still, in this case I prefer Reid.<\/p>\n

Wait–what about Rhett? It’s interesting how close in sound it is to Rex, while being entirely different in style. Brady, Walker, Davis, and Rhett.<\/p>\n

Or Redford, nicknamed Red.<\/p>\n

I find the name Jenkins very appealing. I don’t have any experience with the name in real life, so I don’t know if the Jaynkins pronunciation would be an issue or not, and am hoping others can weigh in.<\/p>\n

I wonder if you’d want to consider Jennings? Jennings Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Jennings.<\/p>\n

I think Rowan works very well in this group: Brady, Walker, Davis, and Rowan. I like the way everyone gets their own initial and their own ending, and it’s a nice assortment of sounds.<\/p>\n

I’m VERY KEEN on the idea of using the name Drew for the middle if at all possible, since it’s such a fun coincidence that it would be after TWO of his uncles! To me that is NEARLY as much of a treat as when one parent’s surname is used for the children, but the OTHER parent’s surname is a usable baby name.<\/p>\n

Let’s look for some more first names to consider.<\/p>\n

Aidric; Aidric Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Aidric
\nCormac; Cormac Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Cormac
\nCrosby; Crosby Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Crosby
\nEverett; Everett Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Everett
\nFelix; Felix Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Felix
\nFletcher; Fletcher Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Fletcher
\nFlynn; Flynn Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Flynn
\nFranklin; Franklin Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Franklin
\nFrederick; Frederick Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Frederick
\nGage; Gage Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Gage
\nHolland; Holland Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Holland
\nIsaac; Isaac Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Isaac
\nKeaton; Keaton Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Keaton
\nLennox; Lennox Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Lennox
\nMerritt; Merritt Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Merritt
\nMilo; Milo Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Milo
\nMitchell; Mitchell Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Mitchell
\nRussell; Russell Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Russell
\nSawyer; Sawyer Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Sawyer
\nSullivan; Sullivan Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Sullivan
\nThatcher; Thatcher Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Thatcher
\nVance; Vance Kershmen; Brady, Walker, Davis, and Vance<\/p>\n

I put Isaac in there because it has some snap, and I feel like you may be looking for some snap—but I am not sure about it style-wise. I went to take it out and found myself reluctant, so I will leave it in.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Swistle-<\/p>\n

Bub came a few weeks early, so sadly the timing of our letter to you did not work out! However – I\u2019m happy to see that some of your readers like the name we picked. <\/p>\n

We went to the hospital with the names narrowed down to Rex and Jenkins. We liked Reid through the whole pregnancy but it just started to not feel right. Rhett would have been top of our list but we have good friends with a son named Rhett so we never considered it – so when my husband brought up Rex, I thought it was a fun twist on Rhett mixed with Max and I liked that! Simple yet a little spunky. <\/p>\n

When he was born, we put his Rex hat on him and started calling him Rex, and it worked! His brothers love his name and have fully embraced the T-Rex association, giving him dinosaur stuffed animals and drawing dinosaurs on every card they write him. It\u2019s very cute and we feel that he is definitely a Rex!<\/p>\n

We went with Ellis as a middle name as I just couldn\u2019t make Rex Drew sound right in my head (although it looks fine written out like that). So here he is, Rex Ellis! Thanks for your feedback – I will refer to it when we\u2019re on our 5th boy (ha!). <\/p>\n

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Swistle – We are expecting our fourth and *probably* final baby (I have to stop at some point \ud83d\ude02). We have three boys: Brady Mills, Walker Lee and Davis Blake. Last name sounds like Kershmen. Middle names of all the boys are family names (my maiden, my middle, husband\u2019s middle). We have a girl name […]<\/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-16107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-4bN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16107","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=16107"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16119,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16107\/revisions\/16119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}