{"id":6962,"date":"2009-08-24T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/08\/24\/baby-boy-stanline\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T10:34:00","slug":"baby-boy-stanline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/08\/24\/baby-boy-stanline\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Stanline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diane writes:<\/p>\n

Hoping you can help us out. I am pregnant with a boy. Definitely a boy. And we have no ideas about what to name him. I tend to like classic, Old Testament sorts of names and have suggested Jacob, Samuel, Ezra and Lucas (which isn’t really Old Testament, but has the same feeling.) I also like Hunter and Thaddeus.<\/p>\n

Hunter is a variation on an old family name.
My husband has pretty much vetoed all my choices outright, except for Lucas and Hunter (both of which he said “weren’t terrible”)<\/p>\n

Other things to note:
Our daughter is Claire Barbara – her first name is one we both liked and Barbara was an aunt of my husband’s who passed away.
I was thinking I might like to honor my cousin Nan, who passed away just shy of three years ago.
Our last name is Germanic and rhymes with Stanline. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My husband was a veto-er, too. What I did was have HIM come up with a list. Then I laughed and laughed, because it was all names of Cool Kids From High School. Soon we were making progress. Not, uh, EASY progress, but progress.<\/p>\n

That’s where I might start in this case, too: asking your husband for HIS list. That might give a better idea of the meeting place between what you like and what he likes. Failing that, we’ll start with your preference for Old Testamenty names, combined with the names on his Not Terrible list: Lucas and Hunter.<\/p>\n

The Baby Name Wizard<\/a> has a specific list for Old Testament names, which certainly gives us a good start. What I did was look at each name and think, “Does this seem like someone who thought Lucas and Hunter were Not Terrible would also think this name was Not Terrible?” My conclusion: “Hey, he chose the only two names on your list that didn’t sound Old Testamenty. He doesn’t like Old Testamenty names.” I changed my focus: Old Testament names that don’t sound quite so Old Testamenty.<\/p>\n

Asher Stanline
Caleb Stanline
Ethan Stanline
Jared Stanline
Joel Stanline
Joshua Stanline
Nathan Stanline
Reuben Stanline
Simon Stanline
Zachary Stanline<\/p>\n

None of these just CALL OUT to me as the solution to the situation, though. If he doesn’t like Jacob and Samuel, he probably won’t like Caleb and Joel. If you’re thinking Samuel and Ezra, I suspect Nathan and Ethan won’t satisfy.<\/p>\n

Would anyone else like to try?<\/p>\n

Name update<\/span> 05-31-2010! Diane writes:<\/p>\n

Hi Swistle – I don’t know if I ever updated you, or your readers about what we decided to name our baby, nearly nine months ago. <\/p>\n

Benjamin Colin. It meshes nicely with his big sister’s name, Claire Barbara. <\/p>\n

We were undecided about right up until the end. Then as I was lying there, in the throes of labor I started thinking about the names in my head. And talking to the unborn one (oversharing? Maybe. But whatevs.) I decided then and there, that his name was Ben. So I told my husband so. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diane writes: Hoping you can help us out. I am pregnant with a boy. Definitely a boy. And we have no ideas about what to name him. I tend to like classic, Old Testament sorts of names and have suggested Jacob, Samuel, Ezra and Lucas (which isn’t really Old Testament, but has the same feeling.) […]<\/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-6962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Oi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962","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=6962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}