Hello Swistle and readers! I am Jennifer, my husband is Kyle, and we are expecting our first child in March 2012. We do not plan to find out the sex. I have a question that I would LOVE to see as a poll! We are weird and have already chosen baby names for all possible children! We don’t think we will have more than three total, so we have three boy names and three girls names! The boy names were easy- first would be Samuel Gene (we both love Samuel, and Gene is my hubby and FIL’s middle name), second Wesley Jon (my grandpa’s middle name and dad’s first name), and third Issac Wade (love both the names). You can see there is a two-syllable\/one-syllable pattern, which we love!
\nGirls were a little harder. Our SECOND girl name is Emmeline Claire, and third is Philippa Kate. We just adore these, and love the similar three syllable\/one syllable theme.
\nHere is my question! Our first choice girl’s name (which my hubby is in love with and I love but am not quiiiite sold on) is Annabelle Leigh. Some of you may already know the problem- “Annabel Lee” is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe in which the main character, Annabel Lee, DIES. So…is this a deal-breaker? Several people I’ve spoken to have made the connection immediately, and I am unsure if giving my possible daughter the accidental namesake of a dead EAP character is terrible! We can’t find another middle name that we LOVE with Annabelle, though Jane is a possible contender. Please help! I would love to see poll numbers and general thoughts on this! Also, if you have a (very preferably one-syllable) middle suggestion, please let me know.
\nTHANK YOU!!!
\nP.S. Our last name is German and phonetically sounds like HERkit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nI would not have made the connection, but I also haven’t read much Poe. I think I read The Tell-Tale Heart in high school and that was it. Oh, and I watched the episode of The Simpsons that spoofs the poem about the raven. So it is not exactly surprising that it wouldn’t ring a bell for me, and I think you’re right that what’s needed here is a poll. Let’s have one over to the right. [Poll closed; see results below.]<\/p>\n
Even if the poll comes back with a high recognition factor, I think it might be okay—unless you plan to call her regularly by first and middle. The different spellings help, and it also helps that Lee\/Leigh is such a common middle name.<\/p>\n
But I think I might change the middle name regardless, because of the way the L ending of Annabelle merges with the L beginning of Leigh. I like Annabelle Jane a lot. Or Annabelle Kate, if you want to gamble on not having three girls. Other possibilities:<\/p>\n
Annabelle Eve
\nAnnabelle Faith
\nAnnabelle Grey
\nAnnabelle Jean
\nAnnabelle Jo
\nAnnabelle Joy
\nAnnabelle June
\nAnnabelle Lou
\nAnnabelle May
\nAnnabelle Paige
\nAnnabelle Quinn
\nAnnabelle Reese
\nAnnabelle Rose
\nAnnabelle Ruth
\nAnnabelle Sue
\nAnnabelle Tess<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> Jennifer writes:<\/p>\n I wanted to give you an update on our daughter’s birth- and name! Annabelle Jane Hirchert was born on March 5th, 2012, at 12:35pm, exactly one week before her due date. She is a petite 6#12oz and 18.5″ long. We decided that the Annabelle Leigh connotation was too eerie for us, so Jane it is! We hadn’t noticed the Philippa Kate connection in our other girl name option, so if it ever comes to a third girl, we may reconsider that name then. In the meantime we are loving our little Annabelle Jane! Thanks to you and your readers for all the advice and opinions- I printed out the post and all the responses for my pregnancy journal.<\/p>\n Jennifer writes: Hello Swistle and readers! I am Jennifer, my husband is Kyle, and we are expecting our first child in March 2012. We do not plan to find out the sex. I have a question that I would LOVE to see as a poll! We are weird and have already chosen baby names for […]<\/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-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1xn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","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=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9695,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions\/9695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Annie\"](\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Annie.jpg\")
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