{"id":7120,"date":"2009-01-05T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/01\/05\/baby-girl-or-boy-s-sibling-to-norah-and-lucy\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T13:15:00","slug":"baby-girl-or-boy-s-sibling-to-norah-and-lucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/01\/05\/baby-girl-or-boy-s-sibling-to-norah-and-lucy\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl or Boy S., Sibling to Norah and Lucy"},"content":{"rendered":"

S. writes:<\/p>\n

I am due with my third child in January. I have 2 girls, Norah Rae and Lucy Mae. Norah came from my grandma, Eleanor and grandpa, Ray. Lucy is named after a great-grandmother on my husband’s side. Lucy’s birthday is May 1st so my husband really wanted her middle name to be Mae. I am not a fan of rhyming middle names – but oh well. Anyway, we are having a hard time coming up with names we both agree on. This time around we don’t want to do a family name so we have a lot of options. For a girl, I like older names, Daphne, Ruby, Daisy. My husband really likes Isabel or Izzy for short. I am not a huge fan of nicknames. He also like Campbell. I prefer names that are 6 letters or less and no more than 2 syllables (we have a longer, uncommon last name).<\/p>\n

For a boy, my husband really likes Maddox, but I don’t want people to shorten it to Mad and I have a brother Max, so we wouldn’t go with that. I really like Rex – I don’t think my husband is sold on that one. I also like Brady. We like solid boys names, but not necessarily traditional boys names.<\/p>\n

Also, we don’t care for names that end in en, on, or an (because it would rhyme with our last name).<\/p>\n

I certainly want a name that goes well with Norah and Lucy. Help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Girl names first! A few of the ones in my list break either the 6-letter or the 2-syllable rule, but I left them in because I liked them anyway, or because I felt like they SEEMED shorter than they were.<\/p>\n

Norah, Lucy, and Audra
Norah, Lucy, and Claire
Norah, Lucy, and Eliza
Norah, Lucy, and Georgia
Norah, Lucy, and Hazel
Norah, Lucy, and Julia
Norah, Lucy, and Molly
Norah, Lucy, and Pearl
Norah, Lucy, and Rose
Norah, Lucy, and Violet<\/p>\n

Now boy names. These were harder. For one thing, a lot of the good, solid-but-not-necessarily traditional names end in the -en sound. But how about your husband’s girl-name idea Campbell? I know it’s longer than you’d like, but it’s a good, solid boy name that goes nicely with your girl names: Norah, Lucy, and Campbell.<\/p>\n

Because Maddox and Brady are both surname names, and because I think surname names have that “solid but not necessarily traditional” sound, I went through the Last Names First section of The Baby Name Wizard<\/a> to find a few other possibilities:<\/p>\n

Norah, Lucy, and Archer
Norah, Lucy, and Asher
Norah, Lucy, and Baxter
Norah, Lucy, and Campbell
Norah, Lucy, and Carter
Norah, Lucy, and Grady
Norah, Lucy, and Grant
Norah, Lucy, and Jared<\/p>\n

Let’s do TWO polls over to the right, one for the girl names and one for the boy names. [Polls closed; see below for results.]<\/p>\n

Poll results, girl names<\/span> (273 votes total):
Audra: 23 votes, roughly 8%
Claire: 99 votes, roughly 36%
Eliza: 19 votes, roughly 7%
Georgia: 23 votes, roughly 8%
Hazel: 26 votes, roughly 10%
Julia: 5 votes, roughly 2%
Molly: 23 votes, roughly 8%
Pearl: 16 votes, roughly 6%
Rose: 21 votes, roughly 8%
Violet: 18 votes, roughly 7%<\/p>\n

Poll results, boy names<\/span> (248 votes total):
Archer: 31 votes, roughly 13%
Asher: 32 votes, roughly 13%
Baxter: 15 votes, roughly 6%
Campbell: 48 votes, roughly 19%
Carter: 39 votes, roughly 16%
Grady: 20 votes, roughly 8%
Grant: 51 votes, roughly 21%
Jared: 12 votes, roughly 5%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S. writes: I am due with my third child in January. I have 2 girls, Norah Rae and Lucy Mae. Norah came from my grandma, Eleanor and grandpa, Ray. Lucy is named after a great-grandmother on my husband’s side. Lucy’s birthday is May 1st so my husband really wanted her middle name to be Mae. […]<\/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-7120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1QQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120","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=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}