{"id":6810,"date":"2010-02-26T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/02\/26\/baby-boy-dickens\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:42:00","slug":"baby-boy-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/02\/26\/baby-boy-dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer writes:<\/p>\n

We are expecting our second son on or around March 24th. Our first son is named Henry David Dickens. I\u2019d like a name that \u201cgoes with\u201d Henry but it doesn\u2019t have to be too matchy-matchy. They\u2019re going to be different people, after all. <\/p>\n

We have a fairly short list of candidates, but I’m not sure we have found the perfect choice yet. I\u2019m a little nervous about having namer\u2019s remorse. I feel that way a little bit about my son, Henry. I think he might have made a good Linus, and I am sad that we didn’t consider it when we picked his name. (Perhaps we did, and I forget.) My biggest concern is that there\u2019s another name out there that I haven\u2019t seen that I might think is perfect. That’s why I’m coming to you!<\/p>\n

My husband prefers fairly standard names, nothing too weird. I prefer \u201cnormal\u201d names, but ones that are not too popular. I love Ethan and think it goes really nicely with Henry, but it\u2019s #2 in popularity right now! I hate the recently made up slew of \u201c-en\u201d names (Jaylen, Braden, etc.) and I eschew tradesman names or place names with a few exceptions. I like short, consonant-heavy, old-fashioned names that are nickname proof.<\/p>\n

Here is my list: Rudy (think hipsters from the 50s, not Guliani), Dean, Stanley, Simon, Earl, Edison (don\u2019t like Ed but Sonny might work).
Here is my husband\u2019s list: Ben, Sam, Owen, Nelson, Thomas, Linus, Atticus.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not too worried about the middle name. We have lots of names we do like so I think finding a middle name will be a pretty easy task. I’m more concerned with the first name at this point. So, are there any other options out there that we might be overlooking that you and your good readers can think of?<\/p>\n

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

<\/span>
Adam Dickens, Henry and Adam
Elias Dickens, Henry and Elias
Everett Dickens, Henry and Everett
Franklin Dickens, Henry and Franklin
Isaac Dickens, Henry and Isaac
Joel Dickens, Henry and Joel
Karl Dickens, Henry and Karl
Nathaniel Dickens, Henry and Nathaniel
Rufus Dickens, Henry and Rufus
Russell Dickens, Henry and Russell
Silas Dickens, Henry and Silas
Warren Dickens, Henry and Warren<\/p>\n

I particularly like Isaac, Elias, and Rufus.<\/p>\n

Name update<\/span> 04-30-2010! Jeni writes:<\/p>\n

Update:
Linus Nelson Dickens
March 22, 2010 3:30 PM
7 pounds, 4 ounces
21.5 inches long<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennifer writes: We are expecting our second son on or around March 24th. Our first son is named Henry David Dickens. I\u2019d like a name that \u201cgoes with\u201d Henry but it doesn\u2019t have to be too matchy-matchy. They\u2019re going to be different people, after all. We have a fairly short list of candidates, but I’m […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1LQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810","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=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}