{"id":7269,"date":"2008-03-15T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/03\/15\/baby-boy-werkmen\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:53:04","slug":"baby-boy-werkmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/03\/15\/baby-boy-werkmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Werkmen, Brother to Dane and Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

This is our 3rd boy and we’re having a hard time coming up with names that we love and that sound good with our other boys’ names.<\/p>\n

We prefer shorter first names, and pick a middle name that is a Saint’s name, since we’re Catholic.<\/p>\n

Our last name is something similar to Werkmen. Our current top two are Colby Blaise and Cole Alexander.<\/p>\n

While I like Cole Alexander, it’s almost too preppy for me. Our other kids are Dane Patrick and Owen Zachary and they seem a tad more “hip” than a Cole. I also have a “thing” about choosing names in the SS lists top 50, though Owen was very close to the top 50 last year. Cole is around 70 I think, but I get antsy in the top 100. (not that that’s all that important…)<\/p>\n

We’re up for suggestions as well.<\/p>\n

Devan<\/p>\n

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You like shorter names. Here are some more short-‘n’-sweeties, with their 2006 SSA popularity rankings<\/a> (the month of May cannot come soon enough for those of us wanting the 2007 figures) and the way they’d sound with the other boys’ names:<\/p>\n

Cade Werkmen (#288) (Dane, Owen, Cade)
\nGage Werkmen (#156) (Dane, Owen, Gage)
\nGrant Werkmen (#155) (Dane, Owen, Grant)
\nHeath Werkmen (#786) (Dane, Owen, Heath)
\nLeo Werkmen (#236) (Dane, Owen, Leo)
\nMilo Werkmen (#679) (Dane, Owen, Milo)
\nReid Werkmen (#422) (Dane, Owen, Reid)<\/p>\n

My sibling-group favorites from that list are Cade, Gage, and Reid, but I give Reid the edge for having a different sound: Cade and Gage have the same long-A sound as Dane, and might be too similar.<\/p>\n

Reid doesn’t work with the middle name Alexander if you’re avoiding monogram words: the initials would be RAW. I went to Catholic.org<\/a> for more saint names (and it is very funny indeed to see ads like “Who’s Got a Crush on YOU??? Click here to find out!!!” on a website like this). The list of saints is way, way, WAY too long to browse through, but if you can search to see if a name is a saint’s name or not. I like Reid Elias Werkmen (REW), Reid Matthias Werkmen (RMW), Reid Sebastian Werkman (RSW), and Reid Xavier Werkmen (RXW).<\/p>\n

But Reid is kind of…preppy, right? So I’m going back to the list to re-choose favorites. This time I choose Heath, Leo, and Milo. They’re different enough from your current children’s names; they’re more hip than prep; and I had two of the three on the finalist list for my own baby. The name Heath has extra poignancy because of Heath Ledger’s recent death.<\/p>\n

I like Heath Elias Werkmen (HEW), Leo Sebastian Werkmen (LSW), and Milo Xavier Werkmen (MXW).<\/p>\n

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Name update<\/strong>: “We went with Cade Alexander. :) Thanks!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, This is our 3rd boy and we’re having a hard time coming up with names that we love and that sound good with our other boys’ names. We prefer shorter first names, and pick a middle name that is a Saint’s name, since we’re Catholic. Our last name is something similar to Werkmen. […]<\/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-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Tf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","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=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11102,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/11102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}