{"id":7146,"date":"2008-11-05T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/11\/05\/baby-naming-issue-okay-to-reuse-a-middle-name\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T00:02:00","slug":"baby-naming-issue-okay-to-reuse-a-middle-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/11\/05\/baby-naming-issue-okay-to-reuse-a-middle-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Okay to Reuse a Middle Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simmone writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are about to have our 3rd child and 2nd daughter. My husband and I have chosen Grace for the first name, but we are having a difficult time with the middle. We both like the feel of Grace Elizabeth, but this is where our question comes in. How do you feel about having 2 children with the same middle name? Is that ok? Or should we decide on something else to give the 2 girls different names? Do you have any other middle name suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>Our other children are named:<br \/>Pearl Elizabeth<br \/>William (Liam) Luke<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s fine to repeat a middle name, but I think it&#8217;s more FUN to find something different.  And so let&#8217;s see if we can find some other middle names to throw into the idea pool:<\/p>\n<p>Grace Amelia<br \/>Grace Angelica<br \/>Grace Cordelia<br \/>Grace Felicity<br \/>Grace Lavinia<br \/>Grace Olivia<br \/>Grace Veronica<br \/>Grace Victoria<br \/>Grace Virginia<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s take a poll, just to see the relatively popularity of these ideas.  <strike>The poll is over to the right.<\/strike> [poll closed; see below]<\/p>\n<p>[<span>Poll results<\/span> (256 votes total):<br \/>Elizabeth:  15 votes, roughly 6%<br \/>Amelia:  59 votes, roughly 23%<br \/>Angelica:  10 votes, roughly 4%<br \/>Cordelia:  18 votes, roughly 7%<br \/>Felicity:  7 votes, roughly 3%<br \/>Lavinia:  15 votes, roughly 6%<br \/>Olivia:  86 votes, roughly 33%<br \/>Veronica:  10 votes, roughly 4%<br \/>Victoria:  30 votes, roughly 12%<br \/>Virginia:  6 votes, roughly 2%]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simmone writes: We are about to have our 3rd child and 2nd daughter. My husband and I have chosen Grace for the first name, but we are having a difficult time with the middle. We both like the feel of Grace Elizabeth, but this is where our question comes in. How do you feel about [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Rg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","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=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}