{"id":6999,"date":"2009-06-26T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/06\/26\/baby-boy-beal\/"},"modified":"2009-06-26T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T23:46:00","slug":"baby-boy-beal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/06\/26\/baby-boy-beal\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Beal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claudia writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My husband and I are expecting our first baby, a boy, in July and although we found a lot of girls names that we liked, we found it very hard to find any boy&#8217;s names.   We both really like Konrad as a middle name.  Konrad is a German name meaning \u201cbrave and honest advisor\u201d and we were surprised to find that it is a longer version of Kurt (his name).<\/p>\n<p>As for first names, here are the top 5 choices so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abraham &#8211; Hebrew, \u201cfather of multitudes\u201d.  Nicknames could be Abie, Bram or Hammy.<\/li>\n<li>Henry &#8211; English or German, \u201cestate ruler\u201d.  Nickname could be Hank.<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence &#8211; English or Latin, \u201cfrom the place of laurel trees\u201d also Home of the Kansas Jayhawks! (where I went to school)  Nicknames could be Lawry or Lars.<\/li>\n<li>Leonard &#8211; German, \u201cbrave lion\u201d.  Nicknames could be Leo, Leno or Lenny.<\/li>\n<li>Truman &#8211; English, \u201cloyal one\u201d.  No nicknames.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_____ Konrad Beal?????<\/p>\n<p>Any feedback is appreciated.  Thanks for your help on this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite is Henry Konrad Beal.  Let&#8217;s put a poll to the right to see what everyone else likes best!  [Poll closed; see results below.]<\/p>\n<p><span>Poll results<\/span> (189 votes total):<br \/>Abraham:  22 votes, roughly 12%<br \/>Henry:  65 votes, roughly 34%<br \/>Lawrence:  45 votes, roughly 24%<br \/>Leonard:  25 votes, roughly 13%<br \/>Truman:  32 votes, roughly 17%<\/p>\n<p><span>Name update!<\/span> Claudia writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Henry Konrad Beal was born July 17th, 2009 and we couldn&#8217;t be happier with the name choice.  It fits him perfect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claudia writes: My husband and I are expecting our first baby, a boy, in July and although we found a lot of girls names that we liked, we found it very hard to find any boy&#8217;s names. We both really like Konrad as a middle name. Konrad is a German name meaning \u201cbrave and honest [&hellip;]<\/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-6999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1OT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999","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=6999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}