For boy names, well, we can\u2019t even begin.\u00a0 I LOVE the name Jack, but that is an absolute non-starter for potential teasing reasons.\u00a0 If our first child was a boy, she would have been Ryan David \u2013 not because we loved the name, but because we couldn\u2019t come up with anything we liked better.\u00a0 I also like the name Joshua, but we have too many relatives with that name in the area.\u00a0\u00a0 We tend to like strong, somewhat traditional (but not too traditional) names for boys and rhythm doesn\u2019t matter to my husband on this one.\u00a0 Surprisingly, we both like Finn, but feel like it is too much with our last name.<\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s hoping you have encountered rhythmic namers before and can help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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The first girl name that comes to mind is Lila. Ava and Lila. I like Lila Penelope.<\/p>\n
From your list I like both Stella and Ella (Stella seems to me to better fit the strong and not too sweet preference), but (St)Ella Penelope gives me an “(St)Ella Penella” rhyme, and (St)Ella Alexandra has an (St)Ella-Alla, neither of which are dealbreakers (and in fact may tie the names together nicely), but I think I’d go back to the name list for something like (St)Ella Magnolia or (St)Ella Victoria.<\/p>\n
I’d also suggest Ruby. It doesn’t end in the A sound, but I think it hits a similar style mark as Ava: more sass than sweet. Ava and Ruby.<\/p>\n
Eliza is one of my favorite sass names. Ava and Eliza.<\/p>\n
If you like Finn for a boy but it’s not quite right with your surname, would Griffin work better?<\/p>\n
If you like Joshua but there are too many in your family already, I wonder if Jonathan would work. It has a similar sound and rhythm.<\/p>\n
If what you like about Jack is the snappy sound of it, I wonder if you’d like Declan? It takes away the teasing, and I think Dec Sch___ is far enough away in sound that it doesn’t bring it to mind.<\/p>\n
Or Eric might work. Or Alec.<\/p>\n
Or maybe something more like Sam or Joe? Joseph would be a nice alternative to Joshua.<\/p>\n
Or instead of Ryan, Owen or Liam or Ian or Gavin? I like how Ian is another three-letter-two-vowel name like Ava, and I like how Gavin repeats Ava’s V-sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anna writes: My husband and I are expecting our second (and last) child this fall.\u00a0 So far, the baby name game has been a bit of a disaster. Our last name starts with \u201csch.\u201d Our first daughter is named Ava, which we love (even though it is common, it suits her perfectly).\u00a0 Her middle name […]<\/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-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1BC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176","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=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}