{"id":16444,"date":"2023-12-06T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=16444"},"modified":"2023-12-06T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:05:16","slug":"triplet-baby-girls-hayes-sisters-to-madrigal-and-clementine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2023\/12\/06\/triplet-baby-girls-hayes-sisters-to-madrigal-and-clementine\/","title":{"rendered":"Triplet Baby Girls Hayes, Sisters to Madrigal and Clementine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! My wife, Shannon, and I just discovered your blog looking around for baby names and we’re really hoping you can help us. My name is Lauren, our last name is Hayes, and we have two older daughters, Madrigal Kathryn (often goes by Mads) and Clementine Vivian (often goes by Clem). Their middle names are our moms names. Neither of us have other family names we feel strongly about using, but a few we are kicking around honoring various family\/friends are<\/p>\n

Margaret
\nPaloma
\nNoelle
\nCassidy
\nJulia
\nRory
\nHannah
\nLouise<\/p>\n

But those are just middle names we are considering! The big problem is first names. And oh yeah, we need THREE first names- I am pregnant with triplet girls, due in eight weeks (yikes!) basically the only decision we’ve made is that we want all their names to start with a vowel- this seems like the level of matchiness we want. (And different letters, we def want each kid to have their own letter). As for style….well, looking at Madrigal and Clementine, I’m not totally sure how to pin it down…..eclectic, quirky, vaguely nature-ish? Here is what we have come up with so far:<\/p>\n

Everly
\nAriadne
\nOttilie
\nAcacia
\nArwen
\nElowen
\nAzalea
\nElysande
\nIone
\nIndigo
\nIdabel<\/p>\n

Can you (and your commenters!) maybe pick this bunch of disparate info into three coherent names that somehow fit together with each other and with Mads and Clem? We would love other name suggestions too!<\/p>\n

Thank you so so so much!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Three different vowels is perhaps a bigger challenge than you want when dealing with the already enormous challenge of naming triplets. I wonder if you’d consider, at least to begin with, ditching ALL preferences for matchiness, and waiting to see if matchiness occurs naturally? That is, perhaps if you look at names starting with any letter, you’ll find that your three favorites all have six letters, or all have a double letter, or all have a long-O sound. That is where I would begin, if I were you: eliminate all unnecessary restrictions, and give yourselves a much longer and more flexible list to work with.<\/p>\n

I will also suggest a technique I found useful when naming twins: I pretended they were arriving individually. That is, I imagined Baby A, and pretended that she was my third baby and a singleton; then I imagined Baby B born two or three years later, another singleton; what would I name them THEN?<\/p>\n

Well. Working from the lists you’ve provided, and working within your current preferences because that does make a fun game, I will make a triplet set, and we will see what triplet sets the commenters make!<\/p>\n

Ottilie, Elowen, and Ione<\/p>\n

Ottilie Margaret Hayes
\nElowen Louise Hayes
\nIone Noelle Hayes<\/p>\n

Madrigal, Clementine, Ottilie, Elowen, and Ione<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! My wife, Shannon, and I just discovered your blog looking around for baby names and we’re really hoping you can help us. My name is Lauren, our last name is Hayes, and we have two older daughters, Madrigal Kathryn (often goes by Mads) and Clementine Vivian (often goes by Clem). Their middle names […]<\/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-16444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-4he","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444","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=16444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16445,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions\/16445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}