My husband and I are expecting our 3rd and final child in just 3 weeks and we still don\u2019t have a short list of names. I discovered your blog just a week ago and really like your suggestions.<\/p>\n
Ethan has my grandfathers first name as his middle name and Audrey has my grandmothers middle name as her middle name. We will find a family name to fit whatever first name we come up with, but names like Maxwell, Campbell, Louisa, Laura, Rosina, Lindsay and Gordon are among the possibilities.<\/p>\n
I really love the strength in our other children\u2019s names and that they have meanings. I think they fit those two personalities really well. I should also mention that we are Australian\u2019s and don\u2019t want a name that screams of another place or one that is really popular. Ethan is in his late teens and when he was born the name was very uncommon here and now it polls in the top 3 boys names every year. Audrey is also not very commonly used here, not since the 50\u2019s anyway. Ethan and Audrey also have no real possibility of a great nick name so they get Eth and Auds\u2026 which we really don\u2019t like and so many of the names on our list don\u2019t have nice shortened forms.<\/p>\n
Our \u201cgirls\u201d list currently reads like this:<\/p>\n
Violet
\nHarriet
\nScarlett
\nEleanor
\nLouisa
\nPatience<\/p>\n
Violet is the one for me, but my husband is not feeling it. He doesn\u2019t like the fact that it ends in T and reminds him of the word violence. So many of the names we love end with a T\u2026 I think that has been a major factor in us not being able to settle on anything. We also really like the name Ivy but as we are IVF patents it seems a bit weird!<\/p>\n
Our boys list currently reads like this:<\/p>\n
Elliot
\nMaxwell
\nOliver
\nQuinn
\nNelson
\nAusten\/Austin
\nLawson
\nLiam
\nEdgar or Edwin
\nAiden
\nLloyd
\nOwen<\/p>\n
I just don\u2019t love any of them. Audrey was going to be Maxwell if she was a boy, but friends have recently used it in naming their son and we\u2019ve gone off it a bit. My husband really likes Liam and Austin. I feel like Austin is a bit too soft or something\u2026 can\u2019t quite put my finger on it.<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> Tamara writes:<\/p>\n You were kind enough to post my plea for help way back in April, so it\u2019s been almost 4 months since our beautiful little girl came into the world. We went into the labour ward with 2 boys names and 2 girls names and didn\u2019t settle on THE name until after we had called home to our other children and their anxious grandparents.<\/p>\n After many tears due to the realization that my husband would not come round to Violet, I asked him to sit down and watch \u2018Gigantic\u2019 staring Zooey Deschanel with me. I felt that while we loved the name Harriet it wasn\u2019t our favourite only for the fact that we don\u2019t know, have ever met, or haven\u2019t even come across a Harriet in popular culture. We needed a positive association with the name, so we watched the movie together and although that Harriet is mostly called Happy throughout the film it did the trick and it became OUR front runner. DH allowed me to use a name from my family as middle name as I did with our other two. So Harriet Louisa Taylor has my grandfather\u2019s mother\u2019s and sister\u2019s name\u2026 both Louisa\u2019s known affectionately as Lou. We haven\u2019t attached a nick name to her yet\u2026 although I do love Happy\u2026. we\u2019ll just wait and see who she is. She arrived 5 days late and weighed in at 3940gms and was 51cm long. She has a lovely dusting of red hair like her daddy. We adore her and her name.<\/p>\n Thank you readers for your input and wisdom. You did help me work through some of my issues. Thank you Swistle for this amazingly supportive and warm environment.<\/p>\n Tamara writes: My husband and I are expecting our 3rd and final child in just 3 weeks and we still don\u2019t have a short list of names. I discovered your blog just a week ago and really like your suggestions. Ethan has my grandfathers first name as his middle name and Audrey has my grandmothers […]<\/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-6420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Fy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420","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=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9951,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions\/9951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"BabyTaylor\"](\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BabyTaylor.jpg\")
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