{"id":16417,"date":"2023-11-01T08:55:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=16417"},"modified":"2023-11-01T08:55:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:55:29","slug":"baby-boy-or-girl-mnjgfic-sibling-to-cecilia-vera-and-helena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2023\/11\/01\/baby-boy-or-girl-mnjgfic-sibling-to-cecilia-vera-and-helena\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy or Girl M@njg@fic, Sibling to Cecilia, Vera, and Helena"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle,<\/p>\n

I first wrote to you<\/a> in 2018 when my husband I were expecting twin girls. I loved reading your advice and all the suggestions from your readers. We ended up naming them Vera and Helena. We also have a older daughter named Cecilia. We are now expecting baby #4 in early 2024! If the baby is a boy, we are almost 100 percent certain that his name will be Leo. The problem we are having is that we have almost no ideas for a girl name. When I think of my daughters names all that comes to mind is Cecilia Vera and Helena. I genuinely can\u2019t picture a name for another little girl to add to our family.<\/p>\n

Our last name is M@njg@fic (Main-ga-fitch) and we like names that are pronounceable in my husbands native Bosnian, but are more pan European and clearly familiar in America as well. I prefer names that are a little longer and romantic, while my husband prefers names that are shorter and easier to pronounce. We want her name to end in an A. I also love that the second letter is E in all three girls names so far, and Leo would fit that pattern as well. The second letter is not a deal breaker though. If we loved a name that second letter wasn\u2019t E, we wouldn\u2019t hesitate to use it.<\/p>\n

So far we have tossed around<\/p>\n

Julia (husband likes seems a little simple for me)
\nSienna (I like but feels a little too modern compared to our other girls)
\nGeorgiana nn Gigi (I like husband thinks is too long and complicated)
\nLiliana (husband likes but can\u2019t use due to very close family already used similar name)<\/p>\n

Our list is short so far and we really just feel out of ideas. Im sorry I don\u2019t have a longer list to work with! Any suggestions for this baby that feels like we will never find a name for?<\/p>\n

All the best,
\nT&D<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Cecilia, Vera, Helena, and:<\/p>\n

Ada
\nAlma
\nAlthea
\nAnnika
\nAudra
\nBelinda
\nBettina
\nBianca
\nClaudia
\nEstella
\nEtta
\nEva
\nFlora
\nFrieda
\nGemma
\nGeneva
\nGeorgia
\nGianna
\nGloria
\nGreta
\nIsla
\nLouisa
\nMatilda
\nNadia
\nRosa
\nStella
\nSylvia
\nThea
\nZola<\/p>\n

I have some strong favorites on this list, but when I started listing them it seemed like too many favorites to call strong favorites. If it’s half the list, is it helpful? Well, my favorites are Ada, Belinda, Bettina, Bianca, Flora, Frieda, Louisa, Nadia, Rosa, Stella, Sylvia, and Thea. I like the B names so much, I hesitate to point out that they would create initials some prefer to avoid.<\/p>\n

I suggest modifying the E-as-second-letter preference to be an E-in-first-syllable preference: for examples, Stella and Greta and Thea would then be included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle, I first wrote to you in 2018 when my husband I were expecting twin girls. I loved reading your advice and all the suggestions from your readers. We ended up naming them Vera and Helena. We also have a older daughter named Cecilia. We are now expecting baby #4 in early 2024! If […]<\/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-16417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-4gN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417","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=16417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16418,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417\/revisions\/16418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}