{"id":6544,"date":"2010-12-14T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/12\/14\/baby-naming-issue-names-for-a-baby-born-near-christmas\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T18:52:51","slug":"baby-naming-issue-names-for-a-baby-born-near-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/12\/14\/baby-naming-issue-names-for-a-baby-born-near-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Names for a Baby Born Near Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suzanne writes:<\/p>\n

I know you need MORE requests like you need a hole in your head, but with Baby Girl due in just a few days we’re getting closer and closer to the holiday baby we’re (I’m) hoping for and I thought this might be a quick\/easy\/fun question for your readers. Although we’ve got a “probably” for the first name (Caroline) I would LOVE to do a Christmas\/winter themed middle name. I know it’s kind of cheesy and some people are going to totally roll their eyes at this but I LOVE Christmas and with Baby Girl expected December 26th I figure I shouldn’t pass up this opportunity.<\/p>\n

Besides Eve for a baby born on Christmas\/New Years Eve or Natalie for a baby born ON Christmas (the internet informs me “Natalie” actually means “born on Christmas”) what else should we consider? Holly? Ivy? I feel like I’m missing a lot of options.<\/p>\n

For the record, our last name is a common two-syllable “D” name so middle names that start with vowels may fall into the dangerous category of initials-that-spell-things – not that that is a dealbreaker for me.<\/p>\n

Thanks so much!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 
\nOh, I LOVE themes for middle names, I just love them. I’m the same as you: I know some people roll their eyes but I CARE NOT. It’s not like I’m suggesting the middle name Snowflake or Reindeer or something: it’s that there are some legitimate, solid, traditional names that just happen to be MORE FUN to use at a particular time of year.<\/p>\n

ANYWAY. So you’ve got Eve and Natalie and Holly and Ivy, which are all good. I’ve seen people suggest Stella or Estelle, too, since they mean star; it’s not quite obvious enough to please my holiday-name-loving heart, but Estelle really is lovely with Caroline.<\/p>\n

Noelle and Joy are both great with Caroline, too. I especially like Joy because it’s two-for-one: a holiday-type name and also a feelings-about-the-baby name.<\/p>\n

Chris and Carol and Mary all work, but I feel meh about them, and Carol of course won’t work with Caroline, and Chris is awkward as a middle name. For a boy baby, Nicholas would be very nice.<\/p>\n

When I was five I got a doll for Christmas and named her Jeanette Isabella<\/a> after my favorite Christmas carol. If I were expecting a girl at Christmas I might be tempted to give her two middle names.<\/p>\n

More suggestions for Christmassy\/wintery baby names?<\/p>\n

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

Thank you to everyone for the Christmas name suggestions! I didn’t make it all to the 25th before going into labor but decided when baby girl was born on December 19th that it was close enough to go with a holiday name. Caroline Noelle joined us at 2:39 am on December 19th weighing 8 lbs 5 oz and 20.5 inches long. I am SO EXCITED about this name (and the spelling of n-o-e-l-l-e) I can’t even tell you. Thanks again for helping us choose!!<\/p>\n

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Suzanne writes: I know you need MORE requests like you need a hole in your head, but with Baby Girl due in just a few days we’re getting closer and closer to the holiday baby we’re (I’m) hoping for and I thought this might be a quick\/easy\/fun question for your readers. Although we’ve got a […]<\/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":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update","category-reference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Hy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544","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=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10085,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions\/10085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}