Lori writes:<\/p>\n
\nMy husband’s (deceased) father was named James Cornelius and my husband is James Christopher, so it important to him to name our son James C______. Our last name is two syllables that starts with an F and ends with an S, so an additional middle same that ends with an S is just too ssssssssss.<\/em> I have combed through baby books trying to find the perfect C name and come up empty every time. We are partial to traditional names (even names that may feel stodgy to some people). For example, I love the name Augustus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOur daughter’s name is Abigail Elizabeth. I was not aware of the popularity of the name Abigail in 2000 when she was born and would like to avoid a repeat of having 3 – 4 children with the same name in his class. I like names that lend themselves to nicknames, but I don’t like nicknames as the legal name.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
If you’ve already been through the baby name books, we might be of scant help—but we can at least get a C-name vote going, and perhaps it will tip you toward a candidate.<\/p>\nLet’s start by considering both Christopher and Cornelius. Perhaps you want to avoid making a Jr., in which case Christopher is out. But Cornelius is an unusual choice, and distinguished. It reminds me of Augustus. And it’s a nice way to honor your husband’s father. It does end in S, but I don’t think it’s overly hisssssy.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Some other contenders:<\/p>\n
James Cabot
James Callahan
James Calvin
James Campbell
James Cedric
James Chapman
James Charleston
James Christian
James Clayton
James Clifton
James Conrad
James Currier<\/p>\nI think ANY of those would be nice. I avoided more contemporary C names like Caden and Carson and Carter and Coleman and Connor only because you said your tastes ran more towards unusual\/traditional—but Caden etc. would be good, too.<\/p>\n
Vote in the poll at right<\/strike> [poll closed; see below] to help James’s parents choose him a middle name, and leave your remarks in the comment section. I hate to split the vote into such small pieces, but I think we’d still better have a lot of choices. HOWEVER! I’ll make it so you can vote for more than one if you have several favorites.<\/p>\nEdit:<\/span> I didn’t realize it when I wrote the post, but the baby will be called by his middle name.<\/p>\n
[Poll results:<\/span>
Cabot: 23 votes, roughly 11%
Callahan: 20 votes, roughly 9%
Calvin: 32 votes, roughly 15%
Campbell: 22 votes, roughly 10%
Cedric: 6 votes, roughly 3%
Chapman: 7 votes, roughly 3%
Charleston: 5 votes, roughly 2%
Christian: 34 votes, roughly 16%
Clayton: 22 votes, roughly 10%
Clifton: 6 votes, roughly 3%
Conrad: 22 votes, roughly 10%
Cornelius: 12 votes, roughly 6%
Currier: 5 votes, roughly 2%]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lori writes: My husband’s (deceased) father was named James Cornelius and my husband is James Christopher, so it important to him to name our son James C______. Our last name is two syllables that starts with an F and ends with an S, so an additional middle same that ends with an S is just […]<\/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-7257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1T3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257","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=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}