{"id":6141,"date":"2012-07-13T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2012\/07\/13\/baby-girl-sister-to-carys-and-elise\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T14:04:00","slug":"baby-girl-sister-to-carys-and-elise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2012\/07\/13\/baby-girl-sister-to-carys-and-elise\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl, Sister to Carys and Elise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jen writes:<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re expecting our third baby girl in October and we\u2019re having a terribly hard time finding a name we LOVE. Our first daughter\u2019s name is Carys Anne. I fell in love with the name Carys many years ago because it\u2019s unique without being too far out there, and the meaning is \u201clove.\u201d Anne is a family name (my middle name, my mom\u2019s middle name and my great grandmother\u2019s first name). Our second daughter\u2019s name is Elise. Again, pretty, but not super popular. Elise\u2019s middle name is Margaret after my husband\u2019s grandmother.<\/div>\n
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Growing up as a \u201cJennifer\u201d in the 80s was really crappy (for me). There were 5 Jennifer\u2019s in my kindergarten class and we all were referred to by first name last initial. I hated being a Jenny F. and I wanted to avoid that at all costs for my kids by not picking super popular names.<\/div>\n
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We thought we were all set with the name Hadley for our baby, with Haddie as a nickname, but now I\u2019m having second thoughts. I like it because it\u2019s really pretty, unique, but not super out there. Plus, my grandmother\u2019s name was Hattie and we thought there was a nice family tie. However, my original goal was to find a name that had an \u201cs\u201d sound at the end, so that it was similar to Carys and Elise, and now I\u2019m bummed that I haven\u2019t been able to find anything. My husband and I really like Emerson, but our big reasons for not \u201cloving\u201d it are that we wanted to avoid another name that started with C or E, and technically it\u2019s a boys\u2019 name. I\u2019m more hung up on the fact that it starts with E though. My husband\u2019s name also starts with an E, so that\u2019s just a lot of E names!<\/div>\n
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We tend to like the English\/Welsh\/French type names like Olivia, Harper, Avery, etc. Those names are all on our list, but for various reasons are not \u201cthe\u201d name, but are in the style of names we like.<\/div>\n
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Maybe you can help us by suggesting something we haven\u2019t already thought of?? I would be SO appreciative!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Proof that we are living in a superior time is that when I Googled “baby girl names ending with s” I immediately got a good list on Nameberry<\/a>. With Carys and Elise I particularly like Iris.<\/p>\n

But I think if it were me, I might try to break the S-ending theme, especially if you think you might have more children later on. Two children with something similar about their names (same starting letter, for example) puts on a little pressure to continue it; three makes the pressure almost irresistible—and notice that the list of S-names isn’t all that long. And although Iris is my favorite, the repeated -ris sound is probably too much with Carys.<\/p>\n

What I might do instead is look for a name with a strong S sound in the middle instead of at the end, to make the names sound right together without backing you into a corner. It’s hard to come up with suggestions without a surname to try them out with, but names like Marissa and Josephine and Lissandra and Isis and Cecily and Lucia (the loo-SEE-ah pronunciation) and Elspeth and Millicent and Astrid and Celeste.<\/p>\n

Or maybe a starting S. Something like Sadie or Stella or Sabrina or Selena or Silvie or Simone.<\/p>\n

Out of left field, I suggest Rose. It came to my mind when I was thinking “Carys, Elise, and ___?”<\/p>\n

Another name that came to mind was Merrin. Carys, Elise, and Merrin.<\/p>\n

Or Audrey: Carys, Elise, and Audrey. <\/p>\n

Because your first two daughters have family names as middle names, the middle name might be a great place for your grandmother’s name. Was Hattie short for another name, such as Harriet or Henrietta? That would increase our options, though the name is still a little tricky to work with.<\/p>\n

If you’re trying to avoid classroom duplication, things are better now than they were back when we were growing up: the absolute most common girl name in the United States is only about a quarter as popular as Jennifer was at its peak. The thing to avoid now may be names that sound similar to a bunch of other names: Kylie, for example, in a classroom with a Kyle, a Kaylie, a Kyla, a Kayla, a Mikayla. Hadley may only be moderately popular (though rising fast: from #921 in 2000 to #178 in 2011), but in a classroom with a Madison, an Addison, a Madelyn, an Adelyn, and a Hailey, she may feel more like a member of a Jennifer pack even if she doesn’t have to use her surname initial—and a Haddie may feel like she belongs to a group of a million girls going by Maddy and Addy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jen writes: We\u2019re expecting our third baby girl in October and we\u2019re having a terribly hard time finding a name we LOVE. Our first daughter\u2019s name is Carys Anne. I fell in love with the name Carys many years ago because it\u2019s unique without being too far out there, and the meaning is \u201clove.\u201d Anne […]<\/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-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1B3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141","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=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}