{"id":6147,"date":"2012-07-06T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2012\/07\/06\/baby-girl-or-boy-cole\/"},"modified":"2014-06-18T12:14:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T16:14:37","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2012\/07\/06\/baby-girl-or-boy-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello! My Husband, Kevin, and I, Samantha, are expecting our first baby this coming December. Our last name is COLE.<\/p>\n<p>My families tradition is to name children after someone who passed away using the first letter of their name. This gives us A,F, &amp; R. We seem to agree on girls names but differ on boy names. I LOVE unisex names, my husband does not L<\/p>\n<p>So far for girls we have agreed with :<br \/>\nAmelia Brooke (this sounded really nice, I originally wanted to do Amelia Faye.. this was we incorporate two letters)<br \/>\nAlena Rae<br \/>\nAudrey<br \/>\nAddelyn (Husband does not like- I LOVE)<br \/>\nFelicity Reese<br \/>\nArya Brooke<br \/>\nAriana<br \/>\nReagan (eh)<br \/>\nAshleigh<br \/>\nRylan<\/p>\n<p>We found A R F difficult, finding so many names outside of them we like.. ESPECIALLY for boys. Other girl options if we break tradition are:<br \/>\nKennedy<br \/>\nHannah<br \/>\nHarlow<br \/>\nHayden<br \/>\nLeighton<br \/>\nPayton<\/p>\n<p>For boys\u2026 we have very few names for A R F ( HELP!!) We should just name him Arf..lol.<br \/>\nThe middle name has to be Kevin, my husbands name. Its his family tradition.<br \/>\nAll we can agree on ( I like many more then he does..)<br \/>\nAiden<br \/>\nReese( although he think it sounds to much like a girls name)<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>Other options we came up with are<br \/>\nBrodie (Husband LOVES\u2026I am not sure if it sounds like a pets name??)<br \/>\nBrayden<br \/>\nPaxton<br \/>\nNolan<br \/>\nEmmet<br \/>\nNoah<br \/>\nLiam<br \/>\nEamon<br \/>\nJoshua<\/p>\n<p>Any other suggestions you have we would really appericate it! We really wanted to stay off the top 50 popular names.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are trying to stay out of the Top 50, that takes Top-10 Aiden off the boy list. Reese would work; I think spelling it Rhys makes it seem more masculine. But it feels a little choppy with the surname.<\/p>\n<p>Other A\/F\/R suggestions:<\/p>\n<p>Abram<br \/>\nAdrian<br \/>\nAnderson<br \/>\nArcher<br \/>\nAsher<br \/>\nAugust<br \/>\nAxton<br \/>\nFelix<br \/>\nFinian<br \/>\nFletcher<br \/>\nRayden<br \/>\nRuben<br \/>\nReilly<br \/>\nRohan<br \/>\nRoman<br \/>\nRonan<br \/>\nRyan<br \/>\nRyder<br \/>\nRylan<\/p>\n<p>For girls, I think Addelyn is on course to be more popular than you&#8217;d like. We did <a href=\"http:\/\/swistlebabynames.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/baby-girl-p-truso.html\">a post<\/a> about it earlier this year, when I only had the 2010 Social Security data to work with; here&#8217;s how things looked when the 2011 data came out:<\/p>\n<p>Adalyn &#8211; 1261 born in 2010; 1458 born in 2011<br \/>\nAdelyn &#8211; 825 in 2010; 1052 in 2011<br \/>\nAdalynn &#8211; 686 in 2010; 959 in 2011<br \/>\nAdelynn &#8211; 458 in 2010; 492 in 2011<br \/>\nAddilyn &#8211; 260 in 2010; 341 in 2011<br \/>\nAddelyn &#8211; 134 in 2010; 127 in 2011<br \/>\nAdilyn &#8211; 133 in 2010; 142 in 2011<br \/>\nAddilynn &#8211; 123 in 2010; 154 in 2011<br \/>\nAddalyn &#8211; 118 in 2010; 163 in 2011<br \/>\nAdilynn &#8211; 105 in 2010; 141 in 2011<br \/>\nAddalynn &#8211; 62 in 2010; 77 in 2011<br \/>\nAdalynne &#8211; 45 in 2010; 41 in 2011<\/p>\n<p>Only two spellings (Addelyn and Adalynne) went down a little; all the others went up considerably. The total number went from 4,210 in 2010 to 5,147 in 2011, putting the name well into the Top 50.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia Brooke is a wonderful name, with fun initials. Amelia was #30 in 2011&#8212;but I am starting to think that this is one of those situations where although you&#8217;d prefer to stay out of the Top 50, you LIKE names in the Top 50! (Ashley\/Ashleigh is only just recently out of a long run in the Top 10. Audrey is #43. Hannah is #25. Liam and Brayden and Joshua are all Top 50, and Noah and Aiden are Top 10.) And there isn&#8217;t anything wrong with that. It would be a shame to choose a name you like less, just because of its ranking.<\/p>\n<p>I also suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2011\/08\/22\/baby-naming-advice-for-first-time-parents\/\">Baby Naming Advice for First-Time Parents<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha writes: Hello! My Husband, Kevin, and I, Samantha, are expecting our first baby this coming December. Our last name is COLE. My families tradition is to name children after someone who passed away using the first letter of their name. This gives us A,F, &amp; R. We seem to agree on girls names but [&hellip;]<\/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-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1B9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","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=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9465,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions\/9465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}