Jenn writes:<\/p>\n
My husband and I are expecting our first in the middle of July. We know we’re having a boy so that has solved half of our problem.<\/p>\n
We’re pretty set on the first name Lachlan as we got married in Scotland and our only common heritage is Scottish. What we’re stuck on is the middle name. Options we’ve tossed around have all been family names:<\/p>\n
Lachlan Alexander – Both DH and my grandfathers were Alec, and DH’s middle name is Alexander
Lachlan David – after DH’s godfather who is a dear friend to both of us
Lachlan Augustus – My Grandmother’s middle name was August, and my Grandpa was Gustav, so it kinda covers both.<\/p>\nI’m currently leaning toward Lachlan Augustus, but I’m wondering if it’s too stuffy? Too pretentious? Would he have to be quite a character to pull off a name like that?<\/p>\n
Anything else that sounds fantastic with Lachlan that you can think of?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I love the idea of using the middle name slot for a family\/significant name. Both Lachlan Alexander and Lachlan David sound really good to me. I particularly like David because of the sweet godfather connection: I can just SEE the godfather tearing up when he hears about it. But I love the sound of Lachlan Alexander.<\/p>\n
If you’re considering having more than one child, I wonder if you might want to save the name Augustus for a possible second son? Lachlan and Augustus is such a good sibling pair, and Gus is a adorable nickname. In fact, why don’t I just go ahead and name your son and future son for you? Lachlan David MacLean and Augustus Alec MacLean, or Lachlan Alexander MacLean and Augustus David MacLean.<\/p>\n
Oh….er, would anyone else like to add a suggestion before I fill in the birth certificate? And let’s have a poll over to the right for the current three middle name candidates. [Poll closed; see results below.]<\/p>\n
Poll results<\/span> (171 votes total):
Lachlan Alexander: 99 votes, roughly 58%
Lachlan David: 57 votes, roughly 33%
Lachlan Augustus: 15 votes, roughly 9%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenn writes: My husband and I are expecting our first in the middle of July. We know we’re having a boy so that has solved half of our problem. We’re pretty set on the first name Lachlan as we got married in Scotland and our only common heritage is Scottish. What we’re stuck on is […]<\/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-6988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/6988","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=6988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}