We have two boys already, Josiah and Tanner, whose middle names are Lewis and William, respectively, after hubby’s grandfather and my dad. We are due with a girl in April. Our first girl.<\/p>\n
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When you named your first son, you used the name of your husband’s grandfather as his middle name, without worrying that it would leave out your husband’s other grandfather and both of your own grandfathers, and without combining names to make sure they were all covered. When you named your second son, you used your dad’s name as his middle name, without worrying that it would leave out your husband’s dad, and without combining the two dads’ names to make sure you got both in (Carliam! Willarl!).<\/p>\n
I don’t think there’s any reason why naming your possibly-last baby (especially since either of the first two babies could also have been the last) needs to make any difference to this pattern: go ahead and use one mother’s name, without worrying that it leaves out the other mother, and without mashing their names together. None of the other honorees have had to share.<\/p>\n
Or, you could use both names: Colby Anna Teressa Roberts.<\/p>\n
If you only want to use one middle name, and if you go with your first choice of first name, I suggest choosing your husband’s mother’s name—to balance things out, and also since your most recent child was given your father’s name and that way both sets of the children’s grandparents are represented. (Which makes a good explanation for the mothers, too.)<\/p>\n
Or, use whichever mother’s name sounds better with the chosen first name. Colby Anna Roberts is nice if you don’t mind the initials CAR, and so is Colby Teressa Roberts. I also like Colette Teressa Roberts, and Scarlett Anna Roberts, and Carleigh with either Anna (CAR again, which is kind of neat in this case since it would also be the first three letters of her name) or Teressa.<\/p>\n
Or, if you like the sound of Colby Grace, Colby Rae is almost the same sound, so that seems like a good choice. Or you could ditch the family names entirely, and use Colby Faith or Colby Jane or Colby Paige.<\/p>\n
Other names similar to Colby and Sadie (not all are good with the surname, but I’m leaving those in anyway for anyone else consulting the post for ideas):<\/p>\n
Ashby
\nAubrey
\nBailey
\nBrinley
\nCadence
\nCallie
\nCasey
\nChloe
\nCleo
\nDaisy (same sounds as Sadie, rearranged)
\nDarcy
\nEmberly
\nHadley
\nHazel
\nKiley
\nLacey
\nMacy
\nMaisy
\nNadia
\nPaige
\nPaisley
\nPeyton
\nRuby
\nSage
\nShelby<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> Gail writes:<\/p>\n I can’t believe I’ve forgotten to update until now. Once my husband learned Colby was a unisex name (I had no idea he didn’t already know), he forbade it. We actually ended up with 2 front-runners: Lila Beth and Brinley Gail. She was born on March 22 and we brought Brinley Gail home from the NICU after some complications 8 days later. Brinley was unique enough for my taste without turning my husband off, and we used my name as the honor name we were looking for, so as not to feel guilty about using one grandmother over the other. Thanks for all your help! I hope Brinley does not end up in the top 10 in the next 20 years! :)<\/p>\n Gail writes: We have two boys already, Josiah and Tanner, whose middle names are Lewis and William, respectively, after hubby’s grandfather and my dad. We are due with a girl in April. Our first girl. Our last name is Roberts. My first choice is Colby. I know it’s mostly a boy name, but I don’t […]<\/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-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1z1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015","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=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9340,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions\/9340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"BeFunky_GEDC2255.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BeFunky_GEDC2255.jpg.jpg\")
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