Ok, I have to come clean and confess that I visit the\u00a0SSA.gov web site for popular baby names 3 to 5 times daily racking my brain on a name for our\u00a0third child.\u00a0 Our little girl is due in May.\u00a0 Since this is our third and\u00a0final, \u00a0I just seem to be drawing a blank.\u00a0 I refuse to run names by my family\/friends because it opens the door up\u00a0for\u00a0extremely vocal\u00a0opinions.\u00a0 Just recently when my sister shared her top two names before the birth of her daughter, (Beatrice and Margaret) so many people let her know that they hated Beatrice.\u00a0 I do not want to open myself up to that.<\/p>\n
My oldest daughter is Natalie Kathryn and her younger brother is Andrew John.\u00a0 I would like to use Marjorie as the middle name to honor my maternal grandmother but it is not a show stopper.\u00a0 Kathryn was the name of my paternal grandmother.\u00a0 I think it would\u00a0be cute to have both girls be named after my grandmothers.<\/p>\n
Our last name is Stoke, with a hard o.\u00a0 (Rhymes with\u00a0Coke.)\u00a0 I would prefer not to have only one syllable in the first name, I think it might be too choppy.\u00a0 Also, we have alot of girl cousins\u00a0in the family; so I need to avoid the names Olivia, Josephine, Amelia, Margaret, Lillian, and Valerie.\u00a0 I also would like to avoid the “top ten.”<\/p>\n
So here is our preferred names:<\/p>\n
Avery
\nElsie \/ Elsa
\nEliza
\nCecilia
\nCharlotte
\nEleanor (love Ellie or Nora as nick names)
\nKristen
\nNadine
\nNoelle<\/p>\n
I really like Nadine, I have no personal associations with that name.\u00a0 But I was wondering if it had a “southern” feel. Any opinions?\u00a0 I definately like that it is a less popular name.<\/p>\n
I also like Noelle, but then I will have 2 daughters with christmas names (Natalie and Noelle).\u00a0 Is that cool or too weird?<\/p>\n
My husbands favorite is Avery, but\u00a0then I wont be able to use Marjorie as the middle name due to too many ee sounds.\u00a0From\u00a0a previous post I just read on this site, I think the name Avery Elizabeth is just beautiful.\u00a0 What about Evelyn Marjorie?<\/p>\n
Any other names off my radar that I should consider?\u00a0 I typically like traditional names, I really dislike newer names like Kaylee, Brooklyn, Madison, Kayla.\u00a0 I have a strong feeling already that this child will spunky, I would like the name to reflect that! Help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I don’t see how I can resist a name list that has my own name in it. I don’t think this has ever happened before.<\/p>\n
I will say this: I have liked my name. I like the look of it and I like the sound of it, and I like the flexibility of it: I feel like a Kristen can be a teacher or a manager or a lawyer or a Target clerk. I don’t mind having to specify that it’s spelled with a K and an E. I don’t much mind the fairly regular confusions with Kristine, Kirsten, and Kiersten.<\/p>\n
I do think of it as a Mom Name now, similar to Michelle and Melissa and Shannon and Nicole and Tracy and Amy and Kimberly and the other names of my peers. That doesn’t mean those names are not still usable now for new babies, but it’s like the girls my age named Barbara and Deborah: it’s a little unexpected to hear one generation’s name on another generation. Though certainly not all that unexpected, considering how many babies are named for their parents’ brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n
I think of Nadine as not particularly southern but maybe a little dated, fitting with Pauline and Janine and Maxine and Francine. And yet it doesn’t sound DATED-dated to me, possibly because it wasn’t as common and because I don’t personally know anyone named Nadine: if I knew a couple of 50-year-old or 80-year-old Nadines I might feel otherwise. As it is, I think if I encountered a little girl named Nadine the name would feel fresh and interesting and appealing to me. A more current version would be Nadia. But I think both Nadine and Nadia seem very similar to Natalie; not so similar that you couldn’t possibly use them, but similar enough to take into consideration.<\/p>\n
Natalie and Noelle seem like a sweet combination to me, and do somewhat bring Christmas to mind. I think that’s okay, though: it’s not even as themed as naming them Faith and Hope, or Rose and Lily; and it helps that there is another child in between. The name Natalie is common enough now (#14 in 2011) that it doesn’t feel like it’s only A Christmas Name, and Noelle fits beautifully with other -elle names such as Isabelle and Annabelle.<\/p>\n
If you’re avoiding Top 10, I might take Avery and Charlotte and Evelyn off the list: Avery was #18 in 2011, and Charlotte was #27, and Evelyn was #24, all still rising steadily. I’d expect them all to be higher when the 2012 statistics come out in May.<\/p>\n
I think from your list my favorites with Natalie and Andrew are Eliza and Charlotte and Evelyn. Next favorites are Elsa and Eleanor. Next Noelle and Nadine, which get their lower ranking not because they’re not a good fit but because each has a potential issue of being TOO good a fit; and Cecilia, which gets knocked down for having so many S sounds with Stoke. And last I’d put Avery and Kristen: Avery because I think it belongs to the modern style you don’t like, and Kristen because I worry about its mommishness.<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> K. writes:<\/p>\n It took some compromising (husband wanted Kristen or Lauren and I wanted Eliza or Nadine) but in the end we happily settled on the name Charlotte Grace. Thanks again for your help!<\/p>\n K. writes: Ok, I have to come clean and confess that I visit the\u00a0SSA.gov web site for popular baby names 3 to 5 times daily racking my brain on a name for our\u00a0third child.\u00a0 Our little girl is due in May.\u00a0 Since this is our third and\u00a0final, \u00a0I just seem to be drawing a blank.\u00a0 […]<\/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-5962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1ya","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962","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=5962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7836,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions\/7836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image\"](\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/image.jpeg\")
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