Liz writes:<\/p>\n
We have just one week to go until our baby boy arrives and need your help naming David\u2019s brother! Our surname (pronounced tir-boarg) is kind of a mouthful and we always need to clarify pronunciation and spelling. So we\u2019re keen on familiar, classic names like David that feel friendly and timeless, and wont be constantly misspelled.\u00a0 We also like names that seem appropriate on a little boy as well as an old man.<\/p>\n
The challenge that we\u2019ve had naming #2 is that many of the names we like either start with a T or end with \u201cter\u201d, and we\u2019re not sure how this repetition sounds with our surname.\u00a0\u00a0 We both like the name Peter (my father\u2019s name) since it is a timeless name that you don\u2019t hear much on little boys these days (much like David), but wonder about the repetition of \u201cter\u201d.\u00a0 As an alternative, we\u2019d like to use it as a middle name if possible.<\/p>\n
My husband\u2019s first choice is William, which I like because it is classic and warm sounding, but I\u2019m afraid with all the Williams and Liams out there now that he\u2019ll be lost in the crowd.\u00a0 But maybe that\u2019s silly with such a classic name?\u00a0 I also have many Williams on my side of the family so it seems overused to my ears. Although William Peter sounds very distinguished to me (but maybe too much for a little boy?).<\/p>\n
My husband\u2019s other favorites include Daniel (I\u2019d like to avoid siblings with the same initial), John (family name on his side, too common for me), Theodore, and Carter.\u00a0 Names I like (but do not necessarily meet our criteria) are Ethan (husband thinks it is too \u201csoft\u201d), Evan (ditto), Joshua (ditto), Simon, Robert, Grant, Owen, Lucas (Luke), Tyler, Jeffrey, Gregory and Landon.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m hoping you can help us find a timeless name that fits well with our surname before this baby jumps into our lives! Thank you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I tried saying Peter with your surname several times aloud, and I think I prefer Peter as the middle name. I love the sound of William Peter; I think it would be adorable on a little boy and yet great on a grown man.<\/p>\n
The names David and William seem to me to be the traditional classics of different eras: William feels more recent, even though both names have been popular all along. Perhaps it’s because William AS WILLIAM is more current: a generation or two or three ago, so many of the Williams were Bills. Or perhaps it’s just that classics drift in and out of stylishness (even if their popularity stays pretty steady), and William currently feels quite stylish.<\/p>\n
Theodore, Carter, Evan, Simon, Grant, Owen, and Landon also have a much more modern sound than David to me.<\/p>\n
I would be more inclined to look at the traditional names that were in style when I was a child, or when my parents were. Daniel, Joshua, John, Robert, and Jeffrey all fall into the category I’m thinking of.<\/p>\n
Andrew, maybe. Andrew Tirboarg; David and Andrew. Andrew Peter Tirboarg.<\/p>\n
Stephen Tirboarg; David and Stephen. Stephen Peter Tirboarg.<\/p>\n
James Tirboarg; David and James. James Peter Tirboarg.<\/p>\n
Adam Tirboarg; David and Adam. Adam Peter Tirboarg.<\/p>\n
Michael Tirboarg; David and Michael. Michael Peter Tirboarg.<\/p>\n
Nathan Tirboarg; David and Nathan. Nathan Peter Tirboarg.<\/p>\n
Aaron Tirboarg; David and Aaron. Aaron Peter Tirboarg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Liz writes: We have just one week to go until our baby boy arrives and need your help naming David\u2019s brother! Our surname (pronounced tir-boarg) is kind of a mouthful and we always need to clarify pronunciation and spelling. So we\u2019re keen on familiar, classic names like David that feel friendly and timeless, and wont […]<\/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-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Ut","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","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=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7347,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions\/7347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}