Ren and Stimpy<\/a>. With your surname, too, I dislike it: Ren Terrill. I’m imagining her introducing herself and the other person being unable to make sense of the name.<\/p>\nI have many of the same objections to the name True: beautiful in writing, great concept, but not as good said aloud–and likely to be misheard as Drew. Furthermore, I think the name True seems too feminine with strongly masculine names like Porter and Harry. It seems like it would be better for the middle-name slot, as with the actress Kirstie Alley’s son William True.<\/p>\n
However, many, many people would vehemently disagree with me on both these names. And I have a very different opinion of more established word\/concept names such as Rose and Hope: there’s no reason either are any nicer on the ear than Wren or True, but because they’re well-established as names, they come to my ear as Names instead of as Sounds. Wren and True, still rare as names, come to my ear as sounds.<\/p>\n
If this were your first girl, we would talk a little about middle names, and I would have emailed you to ask for more information about why you didn’t want to use one. Since you already have a no-middle-name girl, however, my sense of consistency kicks in.<\/p>\n
Suggestions for a girl name:<\/p>\n
Audrey
Claire
Elise
Hope
Iris
Jane
June
Lila
Nina
Phoebe
Rose<\/p>\n
My favorite is Jane. I think Eve and Jane are great sister names. I also like Eve and Rose.<\/p>\n
Your first two sons both have family names. I don’t know what names are available, but that’s where I’d look if this is a third son. Perhaps you can find one more family name and then use True or Holden as the middle name. If the barrel of family names has been thoroughly scraped, then here are a few possibilities to consider (I’m avoiding anything ending in S, to keep from the unfortunate sound-blend STerrill):<\/p>\n
Brogan
Coleman
Colton
Drew
Hudson
Jameson
Landon
Sullivan
Weston
Wilson
Wyatt<\/p>\n
I like Wilson best. Porter, Harry, and Wilson. I also like Drew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Harry and Dawn write: We are expecting our fourth child at the end of November. We have a girl, Eve (no middle name), a boy, Porter Cardon (both family names) and a boy, Harry William (again both family names). We don’t know the sex of the fourth child, and need to come up with something […]<\/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-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Nr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","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=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}