{"id":6439,"date":"2011-03-14T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2011\/03\/14\/baby-girl-goldstein-sister-to-aerin\/"},"modified":"2014-06-26T07:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T11:21:50","slug":"baby-girl-goldstein-sister-to-aerin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2011\/03\/14\/baby-girl-goldstein-sister-to-aerin\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Goldstein, Sister to Aerin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cam writes:<\/p>\n

We are excited to welcome a second girl to our family on\/around April 18, 2011, but we can\u2019t get traction on her name! We just had a girl two years ago, and agreeing on her name was a big enough challenge! She is Aerin R—–. Think of our last name as \u201cGoldstein,\u201d but it starts with a \u201cB.\u201d We love Aerin\u2019s full name. The problem is that my husband and I vetted so many names with her; we have very different tastes; and I would like to avoid common names.<\/p>\n

My dream is a fresh, pretty, interesting, but non-trendy name. My husband would be happy with names like Jessica or Mia (too common for me), but he will defer to my choice if he likes the name enough. Why is this so hard? I like names in theory, but end up rejecting most! Any new ideas, or thoughts on our existing options, would be much appreciated!<\/p>\n

Current short list:<\/p>\n

Sela (a Hebrew name \u2013 my husband\u2019s favorite of the ones I\u2019ve suggested)<\/p>\n

Isla (I LOVE this one, but we are both nervous because of the likely mispronunciation issue)<\/p>\n

Serena (seems long to say, but sounds perfect with our last name)<\/p>\n

Names liked in theory \u2026<\/p>\n

Annelise<\/p>\n

Ciel<\/p>\n

Eden (LOVE, but already used by close friend)<\/p>\n

Elletra<\/p>\n

Ivy (LOVE, but my husband rejected as a stripper name, which I think is crazy!)<\/p>\n

Liles<\/p>\n

Luella<\/p>\n

Louisa<\/p>\n

Scarlett<\/p>\n

Other facts:<\/p>\n

We live in a big city. I am Southern, and my husband is Jewish.<\/p>\n

\u201cS\u201d names are good because they would honor my husband\u2019s grandfather (who was Sidney, but we don\u2019t love the girl\u2019s name Sydney except as a middle name).<\/p>\n

Middle name could be Adelle (strong family associations), a \u201cJ\u201d name like Juliet, Sydney as mentioned above, or something totally different.<\/p>\n

I would prefer NOT to use a nickname.<\/p>\n

If I gave birth today, \u201cSela Adelle Goldstein\u201d would be our frontrunner. But I can\u2019t help but think that Sela doesn\u2019t sound \u201cstrong\u201d enough, AND I worry about people hearing \u201cseal\u201d when they hear it (insert seal barking noise!). Thoughts?<\/p>\n

Thank you SO much!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ivy a STRIPPER name? Oh, I wonder if he’s thinking of Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy? She was a bit, er, provocative in that movie. And the DC Comics character Poison Ivy also dresses scantily. Maybe Iris instead?<\/p>\n

If you love Eden but can’t use it, I suggest Haven. It’s similar in sound, and I think the association is nicer: less paradise\/nakedness\/temptation, more safe\/comfortable\/protected.<\/p>\n

If you’re worried about the seal in Sela, I wonder if you’d like Celia? It has the same sound in it, but because the name is more familiar, the “seal” is less noticeable. Or Cecily and Celeste are both very pretty. Or maybe you’d like Selah? According to The Baby Name Wizard<\/a>, that’s the Hebrew name (pronounced SAY-lah), and Sela is “an unrelated biblical place name.” If that’s true, that would let you keep the S and the Hebrew while losing the seal.<\/p>\n

If you like Isla but want to avoid the tricky pronunciation (though it’s getting common enough that I think soon most people will know how to say it), maybe a rhyming name such as Lila? Or I think Mila is so pretty, and that might remind your husband of his frontrunner Mia.<\/p>\n

Serena doesn’t seem too long to me.<\/p>\n

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Name update!<\/strong> Cam writes:<\/p>\n

Our dear baby girl, Isla Adele, arrived nearly two weeks late, at the beginning of May. I was about to lose my mind waiting for her! My husband and I had numerous conversations about names as we waited for her to arrive, and yet we still didn\u2019t name her until just before leaving the hospital. All along, I loved the name Isla the most, but we were afraid of the pronunciation issue. (We pronounce her name \u201cEYE-lah,\u201d but it reads like \u201cIZ-lah\u201d or \u201cEES-lah.\u201d) Finally, we decided to go with the name we loved, even if it might get mispronounced when people read it. We figure that \u201cIsla\u201d is short and simple, so it\u2019s easy for people to remember once they hear it. Plus, we like how it sounds with her big sister\u2019s name, Aerin.<\/p>\n

The Swistle input was super helpful, both in making me feel good about our ideas, and in giving me new ones. I was really frustrated about our inability to choose a name while I was pregnant, but reading the responses to my question (and many others) was informative and just plain fun. I thought it was interesting that so many readers liked Sela (my husband\u2019s first choice). I admit I still sometimes wonder if we should\u2019ve picked Sela instead of Isla, but I just don\u2019t LOVE it the way I love Isla. We get a ton of compliments on Isla\u2019s name. I just hope she likes it when she grows up!<\/p>\n

P.S. My husband never retreated from his view that Ivy is a \u201cstripper name,\u201d but we all know that he\u2019s wrong about that! :)
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Cam writes: We are excited to welcome a second girl to our family on\/around April 18, 2011, but we can\u2019t get traction on her name! We just had a girl two years ago, and agreeing on her name was a big enough challenge! She is Aerin R—–. Think of our last name as \u201cGoldstein,\u201d but […]<\/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-6439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1FR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439","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=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9964,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}