{"id":6539,"date":"2010-12-19T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/12\/19\/skylar-annaleigh-or-emilia\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T18:41:43","slug":"skylar-annaleigh-or-emilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/12\/19\/skylar-annaleigh-or-emilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylar, Annaleigh, or Emilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My husband and I are expecting baby number one on 1\/23\/2011. We have a name that we love for a boy, Noah Daniel. We can&#8217;t seem to settle on a girl name. There are three that we really love, so possibly some combination of the following would be good, but we just can&#8217;t decide. Here are the names we do like: Skylar, Annaleigh, and Emilia. Your thoughts?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe first baby&#8217;s name sets the tone for future baby names. It also eliminates certain names from future consideration (e.g., if you name a baby Anna, you&#8217;re ruling out Hannah, Annabel, Liana, etc.). This makes the decision more difficult, but can also help you narrow your choices: imagine all your potential future children as a group, and think about what sorts of names you&#8217;d like them to have. If you use the name Noah, and then later on you have a daughter, will you want to use the name Skylar, or does that not seem quite right with Noah? Do &#8220;Annaleigh and Noah&#8221; sound like Your Children? &#8220;Emilia and Noah&#8221;? &#8220;Annaleigh and Skylar&#8221;? If not, which of the two names is the one that you&#8217;d eliminate? That sort of game can help you figure out which of your name candidates is most Your Style.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve talked before about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/11\/14\/baby-name-to-discuss-analeigh\/\">names like Annaleigh make me nervous<\/a>. (Your spelling is fine, but I&#8217;ve now considered the issue afresh for so many submitted questions, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever see the name without thinking of it!) I&#8217;ll suggest to you the same name I&#8217;ve suggested before to avoid the situation entirely: Avaleigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan writes: My husband and I are expecting baby number one on 1\/23\/2011. We have a name that we love for a boy, Noah Daniel. We can&#8217;t seem to settle on a girl name. There are three that we really love, so possibly some combination of the following would be good, but we just can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/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-6539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Ht","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539","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=6539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10075,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions\/10075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}