Christin writes:<\/p>\n
We have a baby girl due June 29th. She is our third child and will probably be our last. We have two boys, William (Will), age 6 and Joshua (Josh), age 3. We are having a hard time naming our little girl and hope to get it finalized in the next couple of weeks. Choosing a girl name has been a lot harder than we thought. Our last name is Dockum so we are trying to figure out a name that goes well with that as well as with the names of our boys. My name is Christin and my husband’s name is Kent.<\/p>\n
We are looking for a strong name but one that is not completely overused. Since our boys names are traditional, I am torn between sticking with a strong traditional name or kind of going out there a little bit…that’s why I like Whitley.<\/p>\n
We have the middle name narrowed down to Jane (my middle name and also the names of both of my grandmothers) or Ann (my mom’s middle name). The first names and name combinations we are considering are as follows:<\/p>\n
Lauren Jane
\nAbigail Jane
\nWhitley Ann
\nEllie Jane
\nLydia Ann<\/p>\nThank you for any help you can give us!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I have two favorites from the list: Abigail and Lydia. I like the way both full forms go with William and Joshua, and I like that each has a nickname (Abby and Lyddie) to go with Will and Josh. I also like those two best with your surname. If you’d prefer all three names to have roughly the same level of popularity, I’d choose Abigail; if you want something a little less common, I’d choose Lydia.<\/p>\n
(I hesitate just slightly about Lydia\/Lyddie. Because we would not want to substitute a short-i sound for the O in your surname, and because Lydia\/Lyddie has the short-i sound and the D-sound, I worry just a little about tongue tangling.)<\/p>\n
But I also think it works to have even a significant style difference between boy names and girl names in a family. And in our family, we went Top 50 for boys but Going Out There A Bit for girls, and I’ve been happy with it (I’d worried I’d regret it)—though I don’t think I would have regretted sticking with Top 50, either. I’m not sure I like Whitley as much with your surname, though.<\/p>\n
I think I would like Ellie better if it were Ella with the nickname of Ellie, to correspond with the boys’ names. But in both cases, the double-L seems like it might be too much with Will.<\/p>\n
Let’s have a poll!<\/p>\n
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