We have two weeks left to name baby girl Greenwald, and I’m still stuck on a middle name.\u00a0 We decided to go with Emerson as her first name, although it has NOT been well received by our families.\u00a0 Apparently, everyone thinks it sounds like a boy’s name.\u00a0 But, I keep thinking about naming her something else, and then meeting a little Emerson weeks later, and I just know I’d be filled with regret.\u00a0 Anyway, to balance out the “boyish” quality of the name, I want to go with something ultra feminine and sweet for the middle name.\u00a0 We love Emerson Rose, but it feels like Rose is all over the place right now.\u00a0 Do you have any names that are short and sweet like Rose?
\nThe problem is nothing sounds right to me…\u00a0 Here’s our current list of middle names.\u00a0 I was thinking maybe you could do a poll on your site? Or give us your honest opinion on these?\u00a0 I think it would help… I’ve become obsessed and it’s not helping me sleep any better!<\/p>\n
Emerson Nicole (my name)
\nEmerson Sofia (hub’s favorite)
\nEmerson Rose (overused middle name?)
\nEmerson Victoria (my favorite, but hub says it’s too long)
\nEmerson Amelia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Here’s my list:<\/p>\n
Emerson Abigail (EAG)
\nEmerson Anne (EAG)
\nEmerson Claire (ECG)
\nEmerson Chloe (ECG)
\nEmerson Elena (EEG)
\nEmerson Ella (EEG)
\nEmerson Eve (EEG)
\nEmerson Faye (EFG) (fun three-in-a-row initials!)
\nEmerson Fiona (EFG)
\nEmerson Hope (EHG)
\nEmerson Jane (EJG)
\nEmerson Joy (EJG)
\nEmerson June (EJG)
\nEmerson Kate (EKG)
\nEmerson Kay (EKG)
\nEmerson Linnea (ELG)
\nEmerson Louise (ELG)
\nEmerson Lydia (ELG)
\nEmerson Mae (EMG)
\nEmerson Meredith (EMG)
\nEmerson Noelle (ENG)
\nEmerson Sabrina (ESG)<\/p>\n
Emerson Victoria doesn’t seem too long to me (it’s only one syllable longer than your husband’s first choice), but I like long girl names. I also like that 3-4-2 rhythm, and would add Emerson Felicity and Emerson Elizabeth.<\/p>\n
I love the idea of using your name as her middle name. It bugs me a little that the tradition is so common with boy names and not with girl names.<\/p>\n
If this helps, I will say that it doesn’t matter very much what you choose. We had it down to three middle names for Henry, and I lay awake agonizing about it—and then I thought, “Does it make any difference in any of our lives which middle name we choose of those three?” and answered myself “No. We can just pick one.” And indeed it didn’t matter much: I have to think for a second to remember what his middle name is, because the subject comes up so rarely after the birth announcements are sent out. And with Elizabeth, I wanted an entirely different type of middle name than we ended up choosing (we went with Paul’s favorite as part of a naming compromise), and that doesn’t matter much either. In fact, I’ve come to like her middle name very much, and I just go ahead and call her Elizabeth Jane and and Elizabeth Louise (and Elizabeth Marie and Elizabeth St. Claire, even though those were never on the list—they’re just fun to say) whenever I want to anyway.<\/p>\n
Let’s have a poll over to the right with your finalists. [Poll closed; see results below.]<\/p>\n
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Nicole writes: We have two weeks left to name baby girl Greenwald, and I’m still stuck on a middle name.\u00a0 We decided to go with Emerson as her first name, although it has NOT been well received by our families.\u00a0 Apparently, everyone thinks it sounds like a boy’s name.\u00a0 But, I keep thinking about naming […]<\/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-6003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1yP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003","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=6003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9071,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}