Ms. B. writes:<\/p>\n
Hi, I came across your blog in a desperate search for help in determining whether our name pick “flows”. You seem like an expert on baby names so I thought I’d send you an email to see what you think! <\/p>\n
My husband and I already have a three year old named Matthew, and we’re expecting a baby girl in May. We’ve agreed on the name Skye Samantha, but I’m having doubts. I love the name, but originally we planned to call her Samantha Sky which I *know* flows well and I absolutely love. <\/p>\n
It was just recently we decided we really like “Skye” and might prefer it as a first name. (I don’t think we want to name our child with the intention of using her middle name… my sister-in-law and father-in-law have both taken that route and paperwork is always a nuissance.) Our last name is three syllables, starts with B and ends with “let.”<\/p>\n
As much as I still LOVE “Samantha” I do wonder if a different middle name might work better. My husband suggested “Abigail” but I just think Skye+Abby = scabby…<\/p>\n
The problem is that Skye and Samantha were the only names we really agreed on. Other names I suggested were: Sarah, Sierra, Sienna, Eliza, Jessica, Isabelle. We’d also consider Elizabeth for her middle name since that’s mine, but I wasn’t sure if ending Skye with an “e” and starting a middle name with an “e” made sense. My husband also likes the name Dakota, but I’m not feeling it. He also likes “Skylar” but I feel that “Skye” is more original and I like the way it looks.<\/p>\n
We want to avoid ending up with the intials SOB.<\/p>\n
I think this will be our last child, though having a third isn’t out of the question. For a boy, I love the name Noah Emmanual, but I don’t think my husband is sold (even though Noah was a name we considered when we were expecting our first). If we had another girl I don’t think we’d be able to find another name we could agree on!<\/p>\n
Please help! Maybe you can reassure me that Skye Samantha flows just fine, or maybe you can come up with a suggestion we haven’t thought of. I feel like baby girl will arrive and we’ll still be “debating” the name issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
One-syllable first names can be challenging to find good middle names for. I think Skye Samantha is great. In fact, I think I prefer it to Samantha Skye, though I think both work well. If you had written this as a middle name challenge, saying her name would be Skye _____ Bernadet [not the real surname, just showing the rhythm], I’d be first looking for a name with a da-DA-da sound: Skye da-DA-da DA-da-da. Samantha fits perfectly.<\/p>\n
Skye Abigail is also pretty. Name rhythm\/flow is very subjective, but my vote is that I prefer Skye Samantha. But I also don’t think “scabby” is an issue, since people rarely get nicknames for their middle name.<\/p>\n
I also don’t see anything wrong with having Skye end in E and Elizabeth start with E, if you like Skye Elizabeth better—but again, I don’t think it particularly helps the flow, so again would advise sticking with your favorite.<\/p>\n
It can be reassuring to consider how often you think the first and middle names will be said together. In some families, the parents routinely call their children by first-middles, in which case it would be worth questing to find a combination you liked. In most situations, however, the middle name all but vanishes after the birth announcements are sent out, and it seems more important to choose a name you love than a rhythm you love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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