Lauren writes:<\/p>\n
my husband and i are expecting our second child in a matter of days. (our due date is tax day.) we are having a boy, and as the date gets closer we believe we need your help.<\/p>\n
here is our list.. (rider is my husbands middle name, and we would like to use it as a middle name for our son as well)<\/p>\n
ewan rider mcdowell
kellen rider mcdowell
rudy william mcdowell
caleb rider mcdowell
samuel rider mcdowell<\/p>\ni also wanted to mention that our daughters name is nina.<\/p>\n
we would love any suggestions or alternatives you may have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
My favorite from your list is Caleb.<\/p>\n
The name Kellen makes me think of one of my own favorites: Keegan. Keegan Rider McDowell. Nina and Keegan.<\/p>\n
Ewan makes me think of Eamon (AY-mun). Eamon Rider McDowell. Nina and Eamon.<\/p>\n
Nothing at all makes me think of Malcolm. Malcolm Rider McDowell. Nina and Malcolm.<\/p>\n
Let’s have a poll over to the right! [Poll closed; see results below.]<\/p>\n
Poll results<\/span> (259 votes total):
Ewan Rider: 37 votes, roughly 14%
Kellen Rider: 35 votes, roughly 14%
Rudy William: 10 votes, roughly 4%
Caleb Rider: 63 votes, roughly 24%
Samuel Rider: 45 votes, roughly 17%
Keegan Rider: 17 votes, roughly 7%
Eamon Rider: 23 votes, roughly 9%
Malcolm Rider: 29 votes, roughly 11%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren writes: my husband and i are expecting our second child in a matter of days. (our due date is tax day.) we are having a boy, and as the date gets closer we believe we need your help. here is our list.. (rider is my husbands middle name, and we would like to use […]<\/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-7044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1PC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044","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=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}