{"id":6837,"date":"2010-01-26T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/01\/26\/baby-boy-raymond\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:54:00","slug":"baby-boy-raymond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/01\/26\/baby-boy-raymond\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Raymond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christina writes:<\/p>\n

I am pregnant with our first – a boy. And we have not discussed names seriously since the first week I knew I was pregnant and I’m starting to panic that we’re just going to keep procrastinating and make a rash decision.<\/p>\n

Considerations:
– My husband’s name is Marc and he would like that to be the middle name for our son, since it’s 2 generation tradition in his family to have the father’s first name be the firstborn son’s middle. I’m okay with it, but having a hard time finding names that flow nicely with Marc as a middle.
– I prefer somewhat unique multisyllabic names that have clear spellings\/pronunciations.
– My husband seems to prefer strong masculine names, but doesn’t like many of the biblical ones I do.
– Daniel, Douglas, Edward, Timothy, Joseph and Adam have already been taken by other family members.
– We do like many of the more modern names, but some of them (like Wyatt) are just a little too out there for us.
– Also, since our last name ends with a “man” sound, I don’t think we should choose a first name ending in -on or -an sounds (e.g., Roman, Jackson). <\/p>\n

I originally was inclined to name him Thomas after my father, but when I told my mom and sisters, they all reacted badly as we have many many Toms in the family already. Thomas Marc is also a tad boring. <\/p>\n

Any suggestions are most welcome. I’m not finding the baby books or celebrities to be very inspirational.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s play a game! I’m going to take the boy name section of my copy of The Baby Name Wizard<\/a>, open it to a page at random, and choose one boy name from that page. I got pages 214-215, and I suggest Louis. Louis Marc Raymond. Let’s play again! Pages 190-191. I suggest Franklin and Frederick. Franklin Marc Raymond. Frederick Mark Raymond. One more time! Pages 242-243, and I suggest Stephen. Stephen Marc Raymond. This is a good way to get a list going when it’s hard to make a list; each parent can choose a name from each page.<\/p>\n

Looking up the name Thomas, I notice the name Theodore. Theodore Marc Raymond.<\/p>\n

I nearly suggested Edmund, an excellent strong masculine name that doesn’t see the light of day often enough—and then I realized EdMUND RayMOND.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Marc Raymond would be nice.<\/p>\n

Or Nicholas Marc Raymond.<\/p>\n

Or Jeremy Marc Raymond.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Marc Raymond.<\/p>\n

Help me out, you guys; I’m stuck on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christina writes: I am pregnant with our first – a boy. And we have not discussed names seriously since the first week I knew I was pregnant and I’m starting to panic that we’re just going to keep procrastinating and make a rash decision. Considerations:– My husband’s name is Marc and he would like that […]<\/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-6837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Mh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837","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=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}