{"id":16554,"date":"2024-03-31T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=16554"},"modified":"2024-04-01T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:03:46","slug":"baby-boy-walsh-or-walsh-stakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2024\/03\/31\/baby-boy-walsh-or-walsh-stakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Walsh or Walsh-Stakland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello,<\/p>\n

I just had my baby via emergency c-section at 26 weeks. He came out weighing 1.8 pounds, and we\u2019re taking it day-by-day hoping that he continues to get stronger. We don\u2019t want to leave him without a name for long, but we\u2019re struggling to find something we feel right about. Can you help?? \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n

1. Walsh, or potentially that hyphenated with Stakland<\/p>\n

2. Boy<\/p>\n

3. We live in the US<\/p>\n

4. We are liking the name Kai or Kylo but are slightly wary of the popularity of it due to the association with the Star Wars franchise.<\/p>\n

Please please help.<\/p>\n

Stef<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

I hope you will find yourself able to take the time you need. The baby is earlier than expected; you thought you had more time to decide on a name, but suddenly he is here. It can feel like there needs to be a huge panicky rush to catch up. But everyone including the baby will understand if you need some time to adjust to this new schedule of events. I would want to bring you a copy of The Baby Name Wizard<\/a>, and then have you do a little pretend play: one of you say to the other one “Oh, honey, the baby will be here in the next couple weeks; we should really buckle down and choose his name now!” Some urgency, but not RUSH. Get out a baby name book (or a baby name website) and a notepad and pen; make lists. Take some time.<\/p>\n

I mention The Baby Name Wizard specifically, even though it’s more than a decade old now, because it sorts names into categories, and that can be very helpful for making some big narrowing-down leaps. If the two of you go through it together, you might be able to rapidly determine that you like this category and that category, but not this other category or this one either. You can look up names you already know you like, and see if you like any of the other names in those categories. Once you have some categories you like, you can go through the lists of names in those categories similarly rapidly: okay, you like this name and this name and this name, and the other parent likes this name and this name and…oh, hey, this same name you liked! Score!<\/p>\n

The book also contains suggested brother\/sister names, which are more like “If you like _____, you might also like ______” suggestions. The listing for Kylo suggests Finnick, Dash, Neo, Axel, Arrow, Knox; the listing for Kai suggests Finn, Axel, Rowan, Luca, Rune, Taj.<\/p>\n

Kylo was ruined for me by the Star Wars character. Kai still feels available. Milo is still available; Miles is still available; Theo and Hugo and Leo and Nico, still available. Kian, Keegan, Keane, Ian, Eli, Ty, Ike, Simon, Cade.<\/p>\n

Speed is important, so I will get this posted. Let the commenters start work on it while you get some rest, and get out the notepad tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, I just had my baby via emergency c-section at 26 weeks. He came out weighing 1.8 pounds, and we\u2019re taking it day-by-day hoping that he continues to get stronger. We don\u2019t want to leave him without a name for long, but we\u2019re struggling to find something we feel right about. Can you help?? \ud83d\ude4f […]<\/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-16554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-4j0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554","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=16554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16558,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions\/16558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}