{"id":7273,"date":"2008-02-29T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/02\/29\/baby-boy-devereaux-___-c\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T19:01:32","slug":"baby-boy-devereaux-___-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/02\/29\/baby-boy-devereaux-___-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Devereaux ___ C."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

I’m having a dilemma… Baby #2 is a boy, and due in 3 weeks. (Ohmigosh!) I’m a single mommy, with a 3 1\/2 year old daughter already. Her name is Taryn Emma, and her middle name was chosen at 4:30am after 24 hours of labor because I panicked when I realized she didn’t have one yet!<\/p>\n

Anyway, Baby Boy will be Devereaux. I was trying it on and despite some initial family protesting, it’s grown on me too much to let go now. However, he has no middle name (surprise, surprise). It’s getting close now and that panic reflex is kicking in hardcore.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any family names or specific naming traditions to honor. Last name is a single syllable and starts with C. I like unique names and names that are creative. Also creative spellings. His name will be unique and creative already, so I don’t want to go overboard…<\/p>\n

A few of my possible ideas are:<\/p>\n

Vin
\nKaedan
\nKeeley
\nKyler
\nDraven
\nTeagan
\nTynan
\nKeiran \/ Kiernan \/ Teirnan<\/p>\n

What do you think…?<\/p>\n

Your opinions, and those of your readers, are appreciated!!! :-)<\/p>\n

Alicia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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One idea would be to repeat what you did with your daughter, and see what comes to you during labor. That does make a good story!<\/p>\n

Another idea would be to give him a middle name that parallels your daughter’s middle name, by choosing something common. I like the idea of giving common-first-name kids an unusual middle name, and I like the idea of giving unusual-first-name kids a common middle name. It’s a good chance for parents to indulge an urge for a name they wouldn’t usually consider a serious candidate. I’m looking over the most common names, though, and I don’t see anything that works. Devereaux Jacob? No. Devereaux Ethan? No.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at your list:<\/p>\n

Devereaux Vin
\nDevereaux Kaeden
\nDevereaux Keeley
\nDevereaux Kyler
\nDevereaux Draven
\nDevereaux Teagan
\nDevereaux Tynan
\nDevereaux Keiran
\nDevereaux Keirnan
\nDevereaux Teirnan<\/p>\n

I think of Keeley as a girl’s name, and so I’m taking that one out. Vin brings to mind the dreamy Vin Diesel—but, like Von, it clumps itself with the surname. My favorites from your list are Devereaux Kaeden and Devereaux Keirnan. If your surname starts with a hard-C sound, I’ll bet the K sound is good with it. And with a 1-syllable surname, I like the descending rhythm of 3-syllables, 2-syllables, 1-syllable.<\/p>\n

Since Devereaux is a French name, what about looking for more French? Devereaux Gerard is nice. Devereaux Jerome. Devereaux Julien. Devereaux Luc. Devereaux Lucien (LOO-shun). My favorite from this list is Devereaux Lucien, because of the rhythm: I don’t know your surname, but I think a first-syllable accent for the middle name would probably go better than a second-syllable accent like Gerard or Jerome–names I prefer.<\/p>\n

Say—you wouldn’t want to move Devereaux to the middle name position, would you? A 3-syllable middle name sounds terrific with a 1-syllable surname. Lucien Devereaux. Taryn and Lucien.<\/p>\n

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Name update!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Swistle! I just wanted to let you know that Devereaux was born on Easter Sunday, a whopper of a kid (2 days late) at 9 lbs 3 oz. *grin* I want to thank you for all your comments and ideas for his middle name. In the end, my grandfather got all sentimental on me and I ended up going with Alix as the middle name, as it’s his as well and this is the only boy in the family. :-) Thanks again. – Alicia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, I’m having a dilemma… Baby #2 is a boy, and due in 3 weeks. (Ohmigosh!) I’m a single mommy, with a 3 1\/2 year old daughter already. Her name is Taryn Emma, and her middle name was chosen at 4:30am after 24 hours of labor because I panicked when I realized she didn’t […]<\/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-7273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Tj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273","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=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11104,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions\/11104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}