The Baby Name Wizard<\/a> recommends sister names Willow, Ember, Harmony, Winter, and Lark.<\/p>\nLark doesn’t quite work for me because of the meadowlark, but I do like the concept of a bird name. Robin is hard to say with the surname, and it’s not as current a name as Meadow. Wren is another possibility. Phoebe is subtle: it’s a bird, but I don’t think of it as a bird. But again, I don’t think it’s good with the surname. I like Starling: it’s highly unusual but I think it would quickly seem familiar and easy. Meadow Alexis and Starling Anne.<\/p>\n
Winter works in theory, but the contrast with what I imagine a meadow being like (warm sun, soft breezes, pretty flowers) makes the name Winter feel chilly and grey to me. Summer and Autumn would both work, and I wonder why hardly anyone uses Spring?<\/p>\n
I think Story would work well, or Fable, or Haven, or Juniper.<\/p>\n
One of my favorite whimsical names is Clover, but I’m not sure if it’s good with Meadow. On one hand I love it, but on the other hand clover seems like a subset of meadow—like using the name America for one child and Georgia for the next.<\/p>\n
Another of my favorite whimsical names is Marigold. This SHOULD be exactly the same problem as Clover, but this just goes to show how very subjective name impressions are: to me, it’s a much smaller problem and maybe no problem at all. Perhaps because I think of clover as growing in meadows, but I don’t think of marigolds growing there? perhaps because they both start with M? I can’t explain it.<\/p>\n
I think the name Serenity would be great with Meadow, but I hesitate to suggest that name: it could be such an ill fit for some personalities.<\/p>\n
I like the cheerful sound of the name Brighton, but the -on ending makes it seem masculine to me. Perhaps Brighten? Brightly? But then it looks less like a name. Hm. No, I think Brighton is best. Brighton Anne.<\/p>\n
Sierra is a nature name like Meadow: Meadow Alexis and Sierra Anne. For something less common: Vienna.<\/p>\n
Or Liberty: Meadow Alexis and Liberty Anne.<\/p>\n
Piper would be darling: Meadow Alexis and Piper Anne.<\/p>\n
Or Padgett: Meadow Alexis and Padgett Anne.<\/p>\n
You only mention girl names—are you also looking for boy names? Those feel less fun to me: there don’t seem to be as many whimsical boy names, and the nature names seem more serious: Stone and Flint rather than Marigold and Clover.<\/p>\n
Archer
Arlo
Arrow
Baxter
Brighton
Casey
Chance
Haskell
Heath
Felix
Finley
Finnegan
Jacoby
Keegan
Kiefer
Lennox
Nico
Parker
Phoenix
River
Sawyer
Shepherd
Thatcher<\/p>\n
Name update!<\/span> Staci writes:<\/p>\nOur daughter, Aria Fable Biondini was born yesterday Feb. 1, weighing 7 lbs. 13 oz., and 21″. We are calling her Fable which is a name that either you or one of the commenters suggested. We think it is the perfect whimsical complement to big sister Meadow Alexis. Thanks for your help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Staci writes: My husband and I recently found out that we are expecting our second child in January 2012. We had a horrible time agreening on a name for our daugther, but settled on Meadow Alexis. We love the tranquility and playfullness that Meadow conjures. My husband is Italian, and our last name is Biondini […]<\/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-6312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1DO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312","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=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}