{"id":7130,"date":"2008-12-09T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/12\/09\/baby-boy-martel\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T18:24:00","slug":"baby-boy-martel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/12\/09\/baby-boy-martel\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Martel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elise writes:<\/p>\n

I’m due in December with my third child, a boy. My husband and I both have French heritage, so we’re looking for French names that are also used in America. Our last name is Martel (prn. mar-TEL.) We’d like our son’s name to fit with our daughters, Adeline Claire (5) and Vivienne Audrey (3).<\/p>\n

So far, our top names are Oliver, Chandler and Sebastien. My husband likes Benjamin and Nicolas, but they’re both very common where we live, so I’m hesitant to use them. My favorite is Oliver. I love the way it sounds! Charles will most likely be the middle name, after my father.<\/p>\n

Please help us out with suggestions – boys names are so hard! I don’t want anything too popular, and it should be easy to pronounce. Thank you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, I just LOVE the name Oliver. LOVE it. I’ve said this before, I know, but when I was pregnant with Henry, Oliver was my first choice and also Paul’s—but unfortunately we have a cat named Oliver. I asked Paul if we could name the baby Oliver if the cat died before the baby was born, and he said yes. Then we both looked at the cat in an evaluating manner.<\/p>\n

So anyway, my vote is already for Oliver. I love it: Oliver Martel. Oliver Charles Martel. Adeline, Vivienne, and Oliver. I don’t know if anything could be better.<\/p>\n

In fact, I find I can’t even concentrate on looking for more options. I turned to the French Names section of The Baby Name Wizard<\/a> and I tried REALLY HARD to make a list. There are some good names there: Hugo, Jerome, Luc, Xavier. But I am sold on Oliver.<\/p>\n

Let’s put the vote to a less-biased audience. I’ll add a few names to your list and put a poll over to the right. [Poll closed; see below.]<\/p>\n

[Poll results<\/span> (228 votes total):
Oliver: 147 votes, roughly 64%
Chandler: 8 votes, roughly 4%
Sebastien: 46 votes, roughly 20%
Hugo: 8 votes, roughly 4%
Jerome: 3 votes, roughly 1%
Luc: 11 votes, roughly 5%
Xavier: 5 votes, roughly 2%]<\/p>\n

Update<\/span> 01-03-2009! Elise writes:<\/p>\n

Oliver Charles Martel came into the world on December 20, 2008. Our family is so thankful for our little Christmas baby. :) Thank you so much for helping us pick the perfect name!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elise writes: I’m due in December with my third child, a boy. My husband and I both have French heritage, so we’re looking for French names that are also used in America. Our last name is Martel (prn. mar-TEL.) We’d like our son’s name to fit with our daughters, Adeline Claire (5) and Vivienne Audrey […]<\/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-7130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1R0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130","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=7130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}