Katie writes:<\/p>\n
\nI came across your blog in my seemingly never-ending search for the perfect name for our baby girl due in November. \u00a0This is our first baby and we are so excited, but can’t seem to come up with a name that we both love. \u00a0About us: his name is Daxx k (yes, middle name is just the letter, lower case); mine is Katherine Elaine (I go by Katie<\/span>) – needless to say, his parents were a bit more adventurous than mine! \u00a0Our last name rhymes with Perry, and starts with T. \u00a0If we have a son in the future his name is likely to be Daxx Turner – Turner is my dad’s middle name, and that is what we will probably call him, to avoid confusion and because we both love the name Turner for a little boy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWe want Baby Girl to have a name that is a little different, not too common, and we don’t want her to share it with a lot of girls her age. \u00a0My husband would love it if her name had a double letter in it (like Daxx, Kenn – his dad, and Lleyton – our nephew.) \u00a0Names we’ve come up with:<\/div>\n<\/div>\nElizabeth Kate (we would want to call her Eli Kate, but I worry that Eli is too boyish), love Kate as a middle name since my mom and I are both Katherine, I’m not sold on Elizabeth as it is SO popular, but I also love the nickname options and that she would still have a classic name<\/div>\nPaisley Grace – we worry that Paisley is becoming too popular\/don’t love the idea of naming our baby after a fabric<\/div>\nEllodie Claire – \u00a0I loved the name Ellodie, but after referring to her as that for a few weeks, it doesn’t feel right, and I hate that every time I tell someone “Ellodie” they say “Like Melody without the M?”<\/div>\nReagan – like it, but worry about it with our last name, seeming like she has 2 last names\/people being confused about which is her first name vs. last name<\/div>\nRiley – he loves this, but I’m not sold<\/div>\nHadley – I love Hadley, or even Hadlee (to incorporate a double letter), but worry it’s getting popular<\/div>\nVivienne – I like Vivienne a lot, but I’m just not sure about it<\/div>\nEverly – i love, but every time I say it, he says “Like Beverly?”<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAny help or direction would be greatly appreciated :)<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThanks so much!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nLet’s start by looking at the current commonness of each name on the list, according to the Social Security Administration:<\/p>\n
Elizabeth: #11 in 2011, and has been hovering right around there for decades<\/p>\n
Paisley: #195 in 2011, coming up rapidly from its first appearance in the Top 1000 in 2006 <\/p>\n
Ellodie\/Elodie: not in the Top 1000<\/p>\n
Reagan: #122 in 2011, rising slowly now after some rapid rising in the 1990s<\/p>\n
Riley\/Rylee\/Rylie\/Ryleigh: hard to figure out the popularity because of many spellings; the spelling Riley was #47 in 2011 for girls, and #111 for boys. Because it’s popular for both girls and boys, this increases the possibility of another Riley (girl or boy) in her class.<\/p>\n
Hadley\/Hadlee\/Hadleigh: rising fairly quickly; the most popular spelling is Hadley at #178<\/p>\n
Vivienne: #383 in 2011; it’s only been in the Top 1000 for three years<\/p>\n
Everly: not in the Top 1000, but likely to get there next year; the #1000 name for girls was used 250 times, and Everly was used 222 times, and Everleigh was used 147 times<\/p>\n
I think Eli would be a hard sell as a nickname for Elizabeth: it isn’t a familiar nickname for it, and the letters are the same but the emphasis and sounds are not—“EE-lie” vs. “eh-LIH.” It might work if you used Eliza, nickname Eli—though it would still be an unexpected nickname.<\/p>\n
If you like Elizabeth, Ellodie, and Everly, I suggest Ellis. It has a double letter, it works with Kate and with Daxx. (I’d also mention Ellery, but I’m not sure it works with the surname.)<\/p>\n
A similar suggestion is Hollis.<\/p>\n
Similar in sound to Paisley is Hazel. <\/p>\n
Similar to Riley: Kiley and Briley—or you could spell them Kylee and Brylee to get the double letter.<\/p>\n
Similar to Reagan: Morgan, Teagan\/Teegan. <\/p>\n
Similar to Vivienne: Vienna.<\/p>\n
More double-letter possibilities:<\/p>\n
Annalise
Arabella
Braelynn
Brinlee
Brylee
Calla
Calliope
Camilla
Clarissa
Emlynn
Evelynn
Fallon
Gemma
Greer
Kaelynn
Karenna
Keelin
Keely
Kennedy
Lennox
Linnea
Mckenna
Noelle
Padgett (might be too much T with surname)
Quinn
Reese
Romilly
Savannah
Scarlett (might be too much T with suname)
Sienna
Stella
Willa
Willow
Wynne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie writes: I came across your blog in my seemingly never-ending search for the perfect name for our baby girl due in November. \u00a0This is our first baby and we are so excited, but can’t seem to come up with a name that we both love. \u00a0About us: his name is Daxx k (yes, middle […]<\/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-6085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1A9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085","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=6085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}