so many other famous Charles Morgans<\/a>, the associations might be sufficiently diluted.<\/p>\nIf you like the spirit of Charles but not the popularity, I suggest George. George Clooney makes the name handsome and charming, and I like the repeating “or” sound of George Morgan. Isabel and George.<\/p>\n
Oliver has the same popularity issue as Charles, but I love it with Isabel.<\/p>\n
Everett is climbing in popularity but is still relatively uncommon. Everett Morgan; Isabel and Everett.<\/p>\n
I also think your idea of Matteo\/Matthias is a great one.<\/p>\n
Larkin and Rowan both seem too unisex for this sibling group. And Rowan Morgan and Larkin Morgan both seem rhymey\/clunky to me. Brock Morgan sounds very, very muscley and tough—an action hero name.<\/p>\n
In larger sibling groups especially, I sometimes find it helpful to split the boys and the girls. So here we have Elsbeth, Alessandra, and Isabel, and then we have Cole and ____. This leads me to think of other short boy names: Luke, Milo, Leo, Jude, Hugo, Ian, Gage.<\/p>\n
Bennett would work great, if you like it for a first name as much as for a middle. I love the idea of using the mother’s maiden name as a first name, and it’s rare for it to work out so beautifully. I would in fact be inclined to name him Bennett Stewart Morgan. Isabel Louisa and Bennett Stewart. That is really, really fun to me, and I love “Izzy and Ben.”<\/p>\n
You’re ruling out Louis as the boy’s middle name if Louisa is the girl’s middle name, but I love a little twin-name gimmick: Isabel Louisa and _____ Louis. It would be far too matchy for first names, but as middle names it’s like a secret twinniness. And the sounds of the names are quite different: loo-EEZ-ah and LOO-iss. But if that seems like too much, I also like your idea of matching initials—either Larkin or Linden. If Louisa is also for your grandfather, then I like the idea of Isabel Linden\/Larkin and ____ Louis.<\/p>\n
Name update!<\/strong> Rose writes:<\/p>\nThought I’d let you know, the twins were born April 5, 2012. Isabel Louisa Willow Morgan was born at 4:03 pm, 6 lbs, 4 oz. Matteo Linden Bennett Morgan was born at 4:13, 6 lbs, 3 oz.<\/p>\n
We went into the hospital with Felicity Lark Ellen, Lucia Willow, and Isabel Rowan shortlisted along with Belle’s name as the number one contender. We decided to go with two middle names because these are our lasts, and there were so many names to hand down.<\/p>\n
For Mattes, we had Charles Linden, Matthias Larkin, and Matteo Charles, with Matteo Charles being the first choice. However, Will’s father lamented two days before the twins were born that Will’s sister was never going to have any children to give his name to, and Will persuaded me that a family name was more important than one I liked more. (as it turns out, I like Linden more anyway). We were originally going to go with Benson when we decided to give them middle name x2, because it fit better, but in the end it just felt wrong to change my maiden name to stick to a six-letter pattern, and we used Bennett.<\/p>\n
Now I am seriously thinking of adding a second middle name to everyone’s name. Elsie is totally on board, she thinks it’ll make her feel like a princess, having many fancy names. She’s already picked out Lark, which would make her Elspeth Rose Lark. She’s absorbing my love of names from watching her siblings being named, I think. Cole is disinterested. I think we’d do Cole Adrian Tannon (Will’s middle name and his mother’s maiden). Alessa I’ve always regretted not naming Rowan. She’d be Alessandra Gemma Rowan.<\/p>\n
But that probably won’t ever happen. I’ll keep dreaming of all the good names that got away, and love the ones I have. Who knows? Maybe Belle and Mattes won’t be our last and you’ll be hearing form us again in a few years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rose writes: My name is Rose Elizabeth Morgan. My husband is William Tannon Morgan. We have three children, Elspeth Rose (6), Cole Adrian (4), and Alessandra Gemma (2) (Elsie, Cole, and Alessa). Their middle names are all family names (Will refuses to have his name be passed as a middle name to his son). We’re […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Cu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230","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=6230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9537,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230\/revisions\/9537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}