{"id":16468,"date":"2024-01-13T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=16468"},"modified":"2024-01-13T19:50:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T23:50:52","slug":"baby-boy-or-girl-peanuts-character-who-plays-the-piano-sibling-to-savannah-and-hadley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2024\/01\/13\/baby-boy-or-girl-peanuts-character-who-plays-the-piano-sibling-to-savannah-and-hadley\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy or Girl Peanuts-Character-Who-Plays-the-Piano, Sibling to Savannah and Hadley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

We are currently pregnant with our third child, due in spring. We’re waiting to be surprised with the sex of the baby.<\/p>\n

Your readers helped us out tremendously about 3 years ago naming our first baby<\/a>. You introduced me to the concept of sibling sets\u2014trying to name your kids with their whole sibling set in mind and aiming (hoping!) for them to all flow well together. Now that our third (and likely final) baby is coming, we need some naming help once again!<\/p>\n

We have a very short list of names that we are intrigued by for each gender, which I’ll share below. But what we really want are some fresh name ideas that flow with our sibling set. We’re simply bored with all the lists floating out there and feeling generally uninspired.<\/p>\n

This baby will be joining older sisters Savannah and Hadley. Our last name is the Peanuts character who plays the piano.<\/p>\n

Boy names we like:
\n– Wells
\n– Theodore (Too popular?)
\n– End of list. Help.<\/p>\n

Girl names we like:
\n– Penelope (nickname Nell\/Nellie)
\n– Eloise\/Louise (my husband isn’t the biggest fan of these but trying to give you a sense of where my head is at!)
\n– June<\/p>\n

One sibling set I saw mentioned (here, maybe?) a while ago that lit me up: Edward (Teddy), Eloise (Ellie), Philippa (Pippa), and Harriet (Hattie). I mean, get out of town! So good!<\/p>\n

Hoping you and your readers can help us customize a fresh new list to complete this sibling set!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

The similarity of Theodore to your surname is catching my attention more than the popularity. Both start with an -h consonant blend; both have the E and O and R in the middle; both end in -der\/-dore. It feels like too much to me. But this is the sort of thing where, when I am concentrating on it too much, I find it useful to leaf through a yearbook: so many names I would have thought were too much if they appeared as candidates on this blog, and they didn’t register that way with me when they were used on actual people! I heard those names at graduation and didn’t say boo to a goose!<\/p>\n

Theodore is Top Ten, as of 2021, according to the Social Security Administration<\/a>. Somewhere I have a post I wrote defending\/encouraging the use of Top Ten names, and I stand by that; but I do think it is best to go in KNOWING it is a Top Ten name. I think Theodore sounds great with Savannah and Hadley.<\/p>\n

I like your description of hearing a sibling set that lit you up, and I wondered what would come to mind if I imagined encountering a sibling set of Savannah, Hadley, and ______. What would give me that zing? For me, the name June would do it: Savannah, Hadley, and June.<\/p>\n

I wondered, if you like the repeating sounds of names such as Theodore, if you might also like Claudia. I like the way it shuffles some sounds from both sibling names plus the surname, but also has some sounds all its own. Savannah, Hadley, and Claudia. I find I want to say the names together again and again, relishing the way Savannah and Claudia both have three syllables and end in -ah\/-a, but Hadley and Claudia share the L and D and long-E sounds.<\/p>\n

Similarly: Cassidy. I just went and looked it up to see what its popularity path has been like (I felt as if I had last heard about it a couple of decades ago, and yet for some reason it wasn’t striking me as dated), and it looks like it had a little surge after Kathie Lee Gifford named her daughter Cassidy, but then the usage drifted gradually back down. It’s in that pleasing familiar-but-uncommon range. Savannah, Hadley, and Cassidy.<\/p>\n

Belinda? I heard this recently and found it utterly charming, and fun to say, which is also how I feel about the name Penelope. Savannah, Hadley, and Belinda.<\/p>\n

Delia, or Dahlia. Savannah, Hadley, and Delia. Savannah, Hadley, and Dahlia.<\/p>\n

Long-time readers are just WAITING for me to see Eloise\/Louise on your list (I love both of those names) and mention the name that comes to my mind like a reflex: Eliza. Savannah, Hadley, and Eliza.<\/p>\n

Or Estelle. Savannah, Hadley, and Estelle.<\/p>\n

Bianca. Savannah, Hadley, and Bianca.<\/p>\n

Would you want to launch out into something like Clementine? I considered that name fabulous except for a lack of nickname options, until someone mentioned they use the nickname Minnie. Savannah, Hadley, and Clementine; Savannah, Hadley, and Minnie.<\/p>\n

I see I have launched from Theodore into girl names and only girl names. Let’s fix that.<\/p>\n

Elliot. This is a name of my heart, but Paul and I could not agree on a spelling (I’d be okay with adding a second T, but Paul wanted Eliot). I mention it particularly because of Ellie and Harriet in the sibling group you liked. Also, I like it with your surname. Savannah, Hadley, and Elliot.<\/p>\n

Frederick. Brings in some repeating sounds, like Theodore does. Savannah, Hadley, and Frederick.<\/p>\n

Gideon. I know you never said anything about wanting repeating sounds and here I go with one name after another, but I seem to have gotten on a tear. Savannah, Hadley, and Gideon.<\/p>\n

Franklin. Savannah, Hadley, and Franklin.<\/p>\n

Edmund. Savannah, Hadley, and Edmund.<\/p>\n

Edward\/Teddy, from the Lit List. Savannah, Hadley, and Edward; Savannah, Hadley, and Teddy.<\/p>\n

Calvin. Savannah, Hadley, and Calvin.<\/p>\n

Malcolm. Savannah, Hadley, and Malcolm.<\/p>\n

Emmett. Savannah, Hadley, and Emmett.<\/p>\n

Miles. Savannah, Hadley, and Miles.<\/p>\n

This is where I clicked the link at the top and went back and looked at your first letter from a few years ago. I see that back then you were thinking of Macklin or Macallister, nickname Mac, but felt it worked better for a second or third child. IS THIS PERHAPS THE MOMENT?? Savannah, Hadley, and Mac.<\/p>\n

Similar possibilities: Declan, Cormac, Isaac, Caleb, Malcolm, Kieran, Lachlan, Merritt.<\/p>\n

Sixteen-year-old Henry was around, and chatty, so I asked his opinion. He suggests Elijah. Savannah, Hadley, and Elijah. He is also very in favor of Wells. And he mentions Weston, which he likes with the surname, and he likes the nickname options Wes and West. He says he would like to see Stephen\/Steven being used again for babies, but I was not sure it works in this sibling set: repeats a first initial AND the V sound of Savannah, and also feels like a different style. He likes Lane with the surname, for either a boy or a girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, We are currently pregnant with our third child, due in spring. We’re waiting to be surprised with the sex of the baby. Your readers helped us out tremendously about 3 years ago naming our first baby. You introduced me to the concept of sibling sets\u2014trying to name your kids with their whole sibling […]<\/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-16468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-4hC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16468","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=16468"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16478,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16468\/revisions\/16478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}