post explaining how to make names ending in S possessive<\/a> (don’t be like my old co-worker who labeled a daycare cubby “Jame’s Cubby”), but I’m not sure they’re the sort of names you mean.<\/p>\nA name I recently thought of is Roberts. We were working on a post where Roberts was the mother’s maiden name, but she was going to use Robert for her son; it occurred to me that Roberts might be a pleasingly fresher version (as well as being her actual name), and fit in well with other current surname names.<\/p>\n
I think Williams would work, too: it takes the fairly common traditional first name William and turns it into an unusual surname name.<\/p>\n
Jacobs, too. In fact, as I go down the list of boy names, I see a lot of possibilities:<\/p>\n
Aarons
\nAbrams
\nAdams
\nAndrews
\nBanks
\nDaniels
\nEdwards
\nEvans
\nFredericks
\nHughes
\nIsaacs (nickname Zax)
\nJacobs
\nJeffries
\nMarks (though I might avoid, because of Marx)
\nMatthews
\nMichaels (the craft store eliminates this one for me)
\nOwens
\nPeters
\nPhillips (the screwdriver might put me off of this one)
\nRoberts
\nStevens\/Stephens
\nWilliams<\/p>\n
It seems to me that one key is finding names that are actual surnames: Andrews works, but Joshuas doesn’t. Daniels works; Dylans doesn’t. I think such names are particularly charming when they in fact ARE a family surname.<\/p>\n
Names that are not quite what I was looking for but thought might have a similar appeal:<\/p>\n
Anders
\nBaxter (Bax)
\nDavis
\nDexter (Dex)
\nEllis
\nForbes
\nHarris
\nHayes
\nHollis
\nJones
\nLars
\nLennox
\nLouis\/Lewis
\nMarcus
\nPaxton (Pax)<\/p>\n
Can you think of more names like these to add to our list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jenni writes: This is not a specific name same request as I already named my baby. I still enjoy reading your blog and wonder if some other readers might benefit from this request. When I was pregnant, I gravitated toward names ending in “S” that are “plural-sounding.” A few examples would be Brooks, Jackson nn […]<\/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-6314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1DQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314","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=6314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9800,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314\/revisions\/9800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}