{"id":6785,"date":"2010-04-11T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/04\/11\/baby-boy-or-girl-rouse\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T14:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:35:47","slug":"baby-boy-or-girl-rouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/04\/11\/baby-boy-or-girl-rouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy or Girl Rouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosemary writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are expecting our first baby at the start of May 2010 and don&#8217;t plan to find out the gender in advance. We&#8217;ve sorted out a boy&#8217;s name, and thought we had worked out a girl&#8217;s name &#8211; Annalie Hazel Rouse. However we are now having second thoughts due to the issues raised here! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/11\/14\/baby-name-to-discuss-analeigh\/\">Swistle Baby Names: Analeigh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emily&#8221; would be a good alternative, but that&#8217;s my new sister-in-law&#8217;s name and we also have a niece named Amelia. Sadly that rules out &#8220;Amelie&#8221; as well.<\/p>\n<p>Another option might be Freya, but Freya Rouse seems like more of a mouthful than Annalie (could be I&#8217;m just not as used to it).<\/p>\n<p>Olivia would be nice but as it is extremely popular here it is not an option &#8211; we do not want there to be another girl in her class with the same name.<\/p>\n<p>We quite like &#8220;Ebony&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAddalie is very similar to Annalie but avoids the, um, issue. Natalie is another such choice.<\/p>\n<p>Emmeline is similar to Emily but less common, and I think it&#8217;s particularly wonderful with your surname.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory is similar to Ebony in that it reveals my &#8217;80s-music childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Abilene is a name I just saw in a book and thought &#8220;Hey!&#8221; Same rhythm as Annalie, and nice and unusual.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a name I&#8217;d never heard until I saw it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0767917529\/ref=nosim\/?tag=88K18-20\">The Baby Name Wizard<\/a>: Bellamy. So pretty, very similar to Emily, and with the nicknames Belle and Bella.<\/p>\n<p>Some more possibilities:<\/p>\n<p>Adelyn<br \/>\nAnnika<br \/>\nBethany<br \/>\nBriarley<br \/>\nCecily<br \/>\nEllery<br \/>\nElodie<br \/>\nEverly<br \/>\nHarmony<br \/>\nImogen<br \/>\nLorelei<br \/>\nMeredith<br \/>\nNadia<br \/>\nPhilippa<br \/>\nVerity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name update!<\/strong> Rosemary writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just to let you know that Philip Tristan was born on 16 May, and that had he been a girl we would have chosen the name Leonie Hazel!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone for all their suggestions! :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosemary writes: We are expecting our first baby at the start of May 2010 and don&#8217;t plan to find out the gender in advance. We&#8217;ve sorted out a boy&#8217;s name, and thought we had worked out a girl&#8217;s name &#8211; Annalie Hazel Rouse. 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