Sydney writes:<\/p>\n
\nWe are the Bradshaw Family, and we have two daughters with our first son on the way around May 26, 2013. The hubs is Reid Harrison and I\u2019m Sydney Louise. As I wrote earlier, we have two daughters already. Our first is Ayla Jennifer and our second is Mackenzie Simone, and the two names couldn\u2019t be more different.<\/p>\n
Ayla is five years old and her name is unheard of around our town. It was a name we just stumbled upon in a name book, and we immediately fell in love with it. Jennifer was my husband\u2019s sister\u2019s name who unfortunately passed away years ago in a car accident, before I ever got the chance to meet her. It meant a lot to my husband and his family to honor his sister and I was more than happy to oblige.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mackenzie is 17 months old, and unlike her sister, her name is a little more popular around our town, but not over the top. She is affectionately known as \u201cKenz or Kenzie\u201d around our house and amongst family and friends. We picked her first name after she was delivered because in all honesty, she just looked like a Mackenzie. Her middle Simone is a variant of my father\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
Now we are expecting number three and we can\u2019t find the perfect name that sounds great with our girl\u2019s names. We had two girls names put together which were Emerson Lilly (middle name is after my husband\u2019s grandmother) and Teagan Louise (my middle name) which we will now set aside for future purposes, as we do not plan on this being our last child.<\/p>\n
Now each of us have our own list of boys names that just seem so different. His name list includes Jacob, Owen, Eli, Cameron and Cole. Now, I like the idea of Cole and Cameron, but it just doesn\u2019t feel like it could be Ayla and Mackenzie\u2019s baby brother. Now my name list is Easton, Luca, Jake, and Blake, but yet again, these don\u2019t seem like our baby boy\u2019s name either nor can my husband and I compromise on one of our names.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m hoping that you could help us find a great name that sort of unites the two girl\u2019s names together. The middle name will either be Samuel (after my husband\u2019s father), Maxwell (my husband\u2019s grandfather), Reid or Harrison (both after my husband). I\u2019ve heard so much great stuff about your website that I hope you could help us.<\/p>\n
Please and Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I think Ayla and Mackenzie are very compatible in style. I’ve heard that the name Ayla has Hebrew\/Turkish roots, but I think its current usage is more often from Mikayla\/Kayla: just as Madison and Madelyn led us to Addison and Adelyn, Kayla led us to Ayla. If your second daughter had been named, say, Haia, or Suna, the name Ayla would have seemed to belong more to the Hebrew\/Turkish roots; but used with Mackenzie, it fits perfectly with Emerson and Teagan.<\/p>\n
I think your boy name lists are also very compatible. I would probably cross off Eli for being too similar to Ayla, and Cameron for being too unisex (it could equally well be a sister name for an Ayla and a Mackenzie), but all the others seem like candidates.<\/p>\n
Since you both have Jacob\/Jake on your lists, I’d lean toward that. If that’s not quite right but you want something similar, I’d look at:<\/p>\n
Caleb
Dane
Dean
Drake
Gabe
Gage
Grady
Hayden (maybe too similar to Ayla)
Hayes (maybe too similar to Ayla)
Jacoby
Jameson (may rule out Emerson later)
Nathan
Zane<\/p>\nOr if Cole is close but not quite right:<\/p>\n
Cade
Camden
Carson
Carter
Case
Chase
Clark
Coleman
Collins
Colter
Colton
Holden
Kyle
Joel
Nicholas
Nolan<\/p>\nI’ve gone back and forth on suggesting Colby. On one hand it’s a nice combination of Cole and Jacob. On the other hand, I’m not sure I like the stuttering B sound it creates with Bradshaw, and I wonder if Colby brings Carrie to mind.<\/p>\n
I wonder if you’d like Sawyer? Sawyer Bradshaw; Ayla, Mackenzie, and Sawyer.<\/p>\n
If Easton is not quite right, I wonder if you’d like Weston. Weston Bradshaw; Ayla, Mackenzie, and Weston. <\/p>\n
Or I like Wilson. Wilson Bradshaw; Ayla, Mackenzie, and Wilson.<\/p>\n
It would rule out Teagan for a girl, but Teague would work for a boy. Teague Bradshaw; Ayla, Mackenzie, and Teague.<\/p>\n
A lot of your middle name options seem like they’d be great as first names: Samuel, Maxwell, Harrison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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