Tara writes:<\/p>\n
We are looking to name child #2, sex unknown, due September 30th. We have one daughter named Madeline Claire. For girl names we tend to like more of the timeless\/elegant\/classic names. If it\u2019s a girl I really want our first and second daughters names to go together. For boys we tend to go more for an all boy kind of name. I am not as concerned with the styles of boy and girl matching each other, but I do want the names to sound good together. As for popularity; I don\u2019t really want a top 10 where the child will have 3 others having the same name in their classroom. We live in a smaller town where trends arrive later so a name that is projected to rise is not as big of a concern for me.
For girls:
–Kate: I love this name and wanted to use it for our first daughter. My husband thinks that it\u2019s too bland to stand up next to Madeline
–Ella: My husband loves this name; it would be his first pick. I like the name, but I fear that it\u2019s too popular.
–Gabby: We both like this name. We would probably name her a longer version and then call her the nickname. The concern: we don\u2019t call Madeline \u201cMaddy\u201d as a nickname but I do hear it from some friends and family so I worry about having a Maddy and a Gabby.
–Lucy: We both like but also worry about it sounding good with Madeline and getting too popular.
–Grace: Same worries as with Lucy. (Have considered using as a middle name)
–Arden: I really like this name, but not sure if it really goes with the style of the other names on our list. I want the name to definitely be a girl name and think this may be one of the in between names that could be used for both sexes<\/p>\nFor boys:
We don\u2019t really have top names for a boy. If our first child had been a boy the top contenders where: Miles, Griffin, Cole, Heath, and Cooper. But none of those names would work now for various reasons. Other names on the list are:
Reid, Jack, Grant, Blake, Brent, Mack, Will
I also love the idea of using a surname but haven\u2019t found one that is not being used by friends\/family that I like. <\/p>\nAny suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tara writes: We are looking to name child #2, sex unknown, due September 30th. We have one daughter named Madeline Claire. For girl names we tend to like more of the timeless\/elegant\/classic names. If it\u2019s a girl I really want our first and second daughters names to go together. For boys we tend to go […]<\/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-6644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Ja","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644","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=6644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}