{"id":7177,"date":"2008-09-18T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/09\/18\/middle-name-challenge-baby-girl-hannah-___-2\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:42:54","slug":"middle-name-challenge-baby-girl-hannah-___-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/09\/18\/middle-name-challenge-baby-girl-hannah-___-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Name Challenge: Baby Girl Hannah ___ #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joslyn writes:<\/p>\n

I’m due on Sept 21…so it could be *any* day now as I am already dialted to 3 and this is my 3rd child.<\/p>\n

We do not know the gender of this baby and we’ve picked out a boy’s name for sure but we’ve been struggling with a girl’s name.<\/p>\n

We’ve finally decided on the first name of Hannah for the baby if it’s a girl, because we had so much trouble with choosing the first name hubs has decided to let me have full reign over the middle name.<\/p>\n

This makes me nervous for several reasons, now since I have no rules I have no idea where to begin.<\/p>\n

I do have some self-imposed stipulations:<\/p>\n

1) the name needs to have 4, 5, or 6 letters<\/p>\n

2) I don’t want the middle name to sound like any of my other kid’s names: Daniel Joseph and Amelia Elise (so no names like Danielle or Annelise)<\/p>\n

3) I’d like to avoid anything that rhymes with Cherry or ends with the “ry” (like Rory) due to our last name<\/p>\n

4) I also don’t want anything that ends in the same sound as Hannah (like Matilda)<\/p>\n

5) Since my name is Joslyn I would like to NOT use the name Lynn<\/p>\n

6) She might end up having to go by this middle name if she’s one of 16 Hannah’s in her class going through school so nothing too out there (though I love the name Calliope, which doesn’t fit my rules ;-) )<\/p>\n

Thank you in advance for all your help!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

We’ve looked at middle names for a baby Hannah in another post<\/a>. Here was the list I came up with for that baby, taking out the names that don’t have 4, 5, or 6 letters:<\/p>\n

Hannah Claire
\nHannah Faith
\nHannah Jane
\nHannah Jeanne
\nHannah June
\nHannah Kate<\/p>\n

In the original list I omitted Hannah Mae for sounding like “anime,” and the mother omitted Hannah Belle for sounding like “Hannibal.” I omitted Hannah Jo because it wasn’t good with the surname, and it doesn’t meet your requirement for number of letters so I’ve left it out of this list as well; I omitted Hannah Noelle for the surname reason, but that one would work for you. One commenter mentioned that “Hannah Claire” sounds like “Han Eclair.”<\/p>\n

I like Hannah Catherine and Hannah Margaret, but they’re too many letters.<\/p>\n

Without your surname, it’s tricky to find more middle name options—but perhaps those will get you started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joslyn writes: I’m due on Sept 21…so it could be *any* day now as I am already dialted to 3 and this is my 3rd child. We do not know the gender of this baby and we’ve picked out a boy’s name for sure but we’ve been struggling with a girl’s name. We’ve finally decided […]<\/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-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1RL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","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=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10308,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/10308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}