My name is Rebecca and my husband and I are expecting our third daughter on the 23rd of June! Our girl\u2019s names are Hadley Kate and Mia Brynn (both middles names are family names), we love both of them so much, and we want to love this babies name just as much. Oh and our last name is Campbell.<\/p>\n
We have a long list of names, but I\u2019m not sure that any of them are \u2018the name\u2019, probably because I love them all and can\u2019t make a decision. I was hoping that you could either make some suggestions based on our favourites OR maybe you could try convincing us what names work the best!<\/p>\n
The names we like are kind of all over the place, some are very feminine, some are unique, some are unisex etc. I think that is our problem!<\/p>\n
Anyway here is our list (in no particular order). Her middle name will be Reese \u2013 unless it doesn\u2019t flow, then her middle name will be Scarlett.<\/p>\n
Scarlett Reese – *Probably* our favourite, both names are family names, I love it but I\u2019m not 100% convinced.<\/p>\n
Elise Scarlett \u2013 Doesn\u2019t flow very well, but we love Elise.<\/p>\n
Sage Scarlett\/Reese \u2013 Either middle is okay, but I\u2019m not loving the flow of them.<\/p>\n
Lane Scarlett \u2013 Love Lane\/Laney, but not sure it goes well with Hadley and Mia?<\/p>\n
Jillian Reese \u2013 This is MY favourite, but can\u2019t seem to convince the hubby. Another problem is that I want her to be \u2018Jillian\u2019 and not \u2018Jill\u2019 or \u2018Jilly\u2019.<\/p>\n
Reese Scarlett \u2013 Also love this one, but not 100% convinced as we know a boy named Rhys.<\/p>\n
Eden Reese \u2013 I\u2019m not religious, but my hubby\u2019s parents are. They have implied that they don\u2019t like Eden at all.<\/p>\n
Jetta Reese \u2013 My hubby LOVES Jetta, I like it too, but is it too uncommon when we have a Mia?<\/p>\n
Elodie Reese \u2013 I think that Hadley and Elodie are too similar sounding…in a way?<\/p>\n
Rowan Scarlett \u2013 I love Rowan, but is it too masculine?<\/p>\n
Savannah Reese – We both like, but don\u2019t really love.<\/p>\n
Tatum Reese \u2013 Same as above! Also have a bit of trouble saying it with our last name.<\/p>\n
Peyton Scarlett \u2013 I like it with Scarlett to make it more feminine…is Peyton too masculine?<\/p>\n
Wren Scarlett \u2013 Too uncommon maybe? Too similar to Brynn (Mia\u2019s middle name)?<\/p>\n
Juliette Reese, with the nickname Jette<\/p>\n
So we have an overload of names! Thanks heaps :-)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nI think the main issue is that SOME of the names go well with the sparky and slightly boyish surname-name Hadley, and SOME of the names go well with the sweet and light and totally girlish name Mia—but it’s hard to find a name that goes with BOTH.<\/p>\n
Peyton, for example, goes wonderfully with Hadley (I’d be hard-pressed to think of a more perfect sister pair), but I feel like then Mia’s name stands out as being too different. And Elise goes wonderfully with Mia, but I feel like then Hadley’s name stands out as being too different.<\/p>\n
So my first choice from your list is Scarlett. It’s got sass and spirit, but it’s also got hoop skirts. It’s purely feminine, but with enough backbone to balance Hadley. It adds a completely different sound to the grouping, which helps keep things from feeling like “two of one, one of another.” And then all three girls have a 2-syllable first name and a 1-syllable middle name; that’s not important, but I admit it pleases me when that works out. Hadley Kate, Mia Brynn, and Scarlett Reese.<\/p>\n
My second choice from your list is Laney. The name Lane is used more often for boys, which tips the name toward the Hadley end of things—but adding the Y makes it purely feminine and tips it toward Mia too. (I was thinking Delaney might work too, but then Hadley and Delaney would both have surname names and Mia would be left out.)<\/p>\n
And my third choice from your list is Wren. Wren isn’t like Hadley and isn’t like Mia, so it gives each girl her own distinctly-styled name. The fact that they are all so different from each other ends up tying them together: the uniting theme ends up being the parents’ tastes. I’ve found this same thing happening with wall art (if I may make a slightly ODD comparison): if I just keep buying what I like without worrying about things going together, it turns out everything DOES go together.<\/p>\n
A name that strikes me as hitting that same “three different styles” mark is Piper. Hadley, Mia, and Piper: all very different, so there’s no “2 against 1” problem. And Piper Scarlett is so great I can’t stand it.<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> Rebecca writes:<\/p>\n My baby girl was born on the 21st of June (sorry for taking so long to let you know), and is doing great. Hadley and Mia couldn’t be more in love with her!<\/p>\n Anyway, my husband and I read the post over and over again (thanks so much to you all), but we could not agree on a name. I found myself favouring Piper Scarlett, and he favoured Scarlett Reese. We ended up deciding to just wait until she was born to see what she looked like. I figured that after she was born my hubby would just give in and she would be Piper Scarlett, so I wasn’t too stressed out about it all.<\/p>\n As soon as I held her, I knew her name was not Piper. The doctor asked if we had a name for her and I immediately replied “Scarlett Reese”. She suits her name to a T and I (and my husband!) couldn’t be happier!<\/p>\n PS. Later on my husband did admit that he was going to give in and say we could name her Piper Scarlett. How funny?!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rebecca writes: My name is Rebecca and my husband and I are expecting our third daughter on the 23rd of June! Our girl\u2019s names are Hadley Kate and Mia Brynn (both middles names are family names), we love both of them so much, and we want to love this babies name just as much. Oh […]<\/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-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Eo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","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=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9859,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/9859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}