{"id":6712,"date":"2010-07-19T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/07\/19\/baby-boy-or-girl-vantol\/"},"modified":"2010-07-19T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T09:18:00","slug":"baby-boy-or-girl-vantol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/07\/19\/baby-boy-or-girl-vantol\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy or Girl VanTol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jen writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi,  I&#8217;ve been really struggling with completing our baby names.<br \/>We are having our 3rd child (gender unknown) due August 7\/10.<br \/>We have 2 boys:  Brennan (no middle name) and Kellan Mark.<\/p>\n<p>I have a very long list of maybe names and a few in the runnings but nothing is 100%.<br \/>For a boy our #1 choice is Emerson Judah BUT I&#8217;ve been hearing Emerson\/Emmerson\/Emersyn a lot lately and they have all been girls.  Does it sound like a girly name?  To me it doesn&#8217;t but I definately don&#8217;t want a girly name for a boy.<br \/>Other choices for boys are: Greyson, Paxton, Kade, Corben, Elias<br \/>For a girl our #1 name is Kalli Eden but I&#8217;m hesitant to name &#8216;her&#8217; that because it is so close to Kellan.  Should that be an issue? <br \/>We also love Everly for a girl but can&#8217;t find a suitable middle name for it.<br \/>Other choices for girls are: Sage, Kodi, Cairo, Sloan, Brea<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In my opinion, Emerson is definitely going Girl.  The nickname Emmy is what makes it irresistible, I think, and it&#8217;s currently used more often for girls than for boys (source:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/OACT\/babynames\/\">Social Security baby name site<\/a>)&#8212;and names don&#8217;t usually come back to Boy once they&#8217;re mostly Girl (see also:  Anne, Alice, Jocelyn, Evelyn, Leslie, Meredith, Ashley).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having trouble choosing a favorite from your boy name list:  I&#8217;m not sure if it would be better to choose a name with a similar rhythm and ending to Brennan and Kellan (Paxton, Corben, Greyson) or whether to deliberately break the pattern (Kade, Elias).  I THINK I prefer the idea of breaking the pattern, especially if you think you might have more children in the future and would feel pressured to keep it up&#8212;but I&#8217;m not at all certain about it.<\/p>\n<p>With your surname, my favorite is Elias.  Maybe Elias Judah, or is that too bible-y?  Elias Jude would tone that down.  Or Elias Kade.<\/p>\n<p>For a girl, I think Everly Sage would be nice, or Everly Sloan.<\/p>\n<p>Kalli does seem very close to Kellan to me.  I wonder if spelling it Calli would help?  I was thinking maybe Calla, but that seems MORE like Kellan because of the A.  Perhaps Kalliopi, with the nickname Kalli?  Or Kallista?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jen writes: Hi, I&#8217;ve been really struggling with completing our baby names.We are having our 3rd child (gender unknown) due August 7\/10.We have 2 boys: Brennan (no middle name) and Kellan Mark. I have a very long list of maybe names and a few in the runnings but nothing is 100%.For a boy our #1 [&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-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Kg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712","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=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}