{"id":7275,"date":"2008-02-21T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/02\/21\/baby-boy-___-john\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T19:05:27","slug":"baby-boy-___-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/02\/21\/baby-boy-___-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy ___ John, Brother to Greyson James"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

Here’s my baby name dilemma: I have one child – his name is Greyson James and he just turned 2. Grey is a family name (so is James), and we just lengthened it. I thought it was an “original” name, but now I’m seeing it everywhere! Okay, back to the topic at hand. I’m due to have another baby boy in April (nine weeks away – yikes!). We love using family names and we’re considering naming new baby after my recently deceased grandfather – Wesly. To spice it up a bit, we’re considering Weston. I thought I was firm with this naming thing, but I’ve recently been doubting my decision. We’ve decided the middle name will be John, after my husband’s father. I’m not set on Wesly or Weston, nor on using a family name for the first name. I need some ideas – Help! I’m not someone who cares if my boys’ names “match” or sound good together. I’m sooooo picky and have a hard time finding ANY name that I even remotely like!! BTW, if it was a girl, we were going with Eliza (love the name!). If you can offer any advice, that would be great. Thanks so much :)<\/p>\n

Kate<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Oh, there are so many interesting issues here! I have to be careful not to get distracted by the mention of the problem of creating an original name and then finding out it is not, because that is a VERY INTERESTING topic<\/a> to me.<\/p>\n

Greyson is a great surname name: it sounds like Jason and Mason, so it’s familiar—but it’s more modern, and it has the cool nickname Grey. In sound, it’s the male version of the popular girl’s name Grace. I think Wesley John is terrific with it. (I would spell it the usual Wesley instead of the adverby-looking Wesly.) Not only does it parallel nicely with Greyson James, it has the nickname Wes, which I love. Greyson and Wesley. Grey and Wes.<\/p>\n

You’ve got the same good stuff going on with the name Weston. Greyson and Weston is if anything better-coordinated, and you still get the good nickname Wes, and you avoid the problem of the spelling of Wesley. The doctoring on both family names is roughly equivalent: Grey to Greyson, Wesly to Weston. Furthermore, The Baby Name Wizard<\/a> recommends the name Grayson (she spells it the A way) as a brother name for the name Weston, so apparently we all agree.<\/p>\n

Now for some more possibilities. For starters, there are the brother names in The Baby Name Wizard for the name Grayson: Easton, Keaton, Brennan, Dawson, Brody. Any of those strike your fancy? I find “Greyson and Easton” difficult to say. I like Keaton, even though it comes out “Keet’n” when I say it. Greyson and Dawson is maybe a little matchier than you’d like? But I do like it.<\/p>\n

Since we seem to be on a roll with surname names, I flipped to the “Last Names First” section of The Baby Name Wizard and wrote down the ones that jumped out at me:<\/p>\n

Hudson
\nKeegan
\nLawson
\nPaxton
\nSullivan
\nTurner
\nWalker<\/p>\n

My favorites from there are Keegan, Lawson, and Sullivan.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, the best names are the ones you’ve already thought of: Wesley John or Weston John. Those are solid, cool names with family meaning, and they’re great with your first son’s name. I think some doubt about the chosen name is common even if the name is perfect, and that you won’t regret either of these choices. I think Wesley is better with John, and Weston is better with Greyson, so it’s a draw.<\/p>\n

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Name update<\/strong>: Weston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, Here’s my baby name dilemma: I have one child – his name is Greyson James and he just turned 2. Grey is a family name (so is James), and we just lengthened it. I thought it was an “original” name, but now I’m seeing it everywhere! Okay, back to the topic at hand. […]<\/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-7275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Tl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275","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=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11106,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions\/11106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}