Krystal writes:<\/p>\n
Hi Swistle, we are currently pregnant with our third (and probably last) baby, who we found out will be a boy and need help with naming. Our last name is Salazar (sale-ah-zar). Our two littles are named Isaiah Daniel and Ayva Jordan (with Isaiah, Daniel, and Jordan being family names).
\nNames so far considered:
\nLucas- I love, husband hates and doesn’t like Luke either.
\nJude-Husband loves and I’m unsure. I like it best as a mn and it’s his cousin’s name although we’re not very close to him so it shouldn’t really matter.
\nAnthony-Husband’s name and too common and very present throughout our family but could be a mn.
\nRyland-we both like as a mn and it combines a couple family names of our father’s that we can use. Not sure it’s the one though. I like it but not sure if I love it but probably depends on the first name we choose.
\nJosiah- like, don’t love.
\nLandon- like but unsure it goes with the sibset.
\nEmmett- we both like and don’t know why the but, but there is one.<\/p>\nBoth of our other kids have names after my husband (Isaiah and Jordan) his only names left are Anthony and Jude (which is probably why he likes Jude Anthony but I’m not sold as previously stated above). I would like to incorporate my name somehow by converting names to a boys name but my name is Krystal Lynn maiden name Gallegos (Guy-egg-ous). Chris and Christopher are out as they are used by family members. Don’t like Christian. My dad’s name is Larry Daniel (Daniel being my son’s mn) the only name I would come up with was combining Larry and Lyn to get rylyn which I converted to Ryland but would love to hear any other suggestions you and your reader’s have.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure of our naming style. I would like to say nothing too common but Ayva has been top 5 for years and Isaiah seems to be gaining popularity but nothing like Jack or John. We want a strong but somewhat offbeat name and not sounding too weird. Also,both Isaiah and Ayva end in the -uh sound, and I don’t necessarily want to make that our trend but if this is our last child does it secluded him from the other two kids? Their names also both start with vowels which again I wasn’t trying to make that a theme but don’t know if that needs to be considered in finding THE name this time around.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I love yours and your reader’s advice and am praying you can shed some light our way!<\/p>\n
Thanks in advance!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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The Social Security Administration reports that the name Isaiah was #42 in 2012; Jack was #46, John was #28, and Ava held its place at #5. But names are very regional: Ava is relatively common where I live, but there hasn’t been a single Isaiah in any of my kids’ classrooms. And I’ve encountered so many boys named Jack it’s getting comical, but not a single John. (Many of them are probably going by Jack, which can throw off the statistics considerably.)<\/p>\n
If the name you like best of all starts with a vowel or ends in an -a\/-ah, I think it would be okay and not too overly matchy to use it; but my own preference would be to avoid it. I wouldn’t have thought the similarities between the first two names were on purpose, but if you add an Elijah it suddenly stands out to me as a deliberate theme—and if this child ends up not being your last, you might feel pressure to continue it past the point where it would be fun. Although there are always going to be people who are looking for offense and hurt where none was intended, I think the odds are in your favor that a third child will not feel rejected and excluded if his name doesn’t end in an -ah sound or start with a vowel. If it does ever come up, I’d say, “Oh! No, we just chose our favorite name each time, and the first two just happened to be similar in those ways.” Then I’d play the Similarities\/Differences Game, which is where you point out all the things that make the names similar and different: “See, Landon, all three of you have A’s in your names; and you and Ayva both have two syllables while Isaiah has three; and you and Isaiah both have six letters while Ayva has four; and Isaiah and Ayva’s names start and end with vowels while yours starts and ends with consonants…” etc.<\/p>\n
If you DO want to match the beginning and ending, I suggest Ezra. It has the same biblical revival sound as Isaiah, and it gives you a different initial. Isaiah, Ayva, and Ezra.<\/p>\n
By the time the paragraph about honor names got to the name Ryland, I felt like the name had nothing at all in common with either Larry or Lyn. At that point, I think it would be better to just choose the name you like best, with a wistful feeling that it’s too bad it didn’t work out to use another honor name from your side. Things often do work out that way: one side of the family will be rich with good honor names, and the other side won’t. Do you have any good surnames on your side that could be used as middle names? Or perhaps he could share your initials: Kai Landon, Kelvin Larry, Kent Lucas, etc. Or your dad’s initials: Landon Davis, Leo Dawson, Levi Declan, Louis Dylan, etc. Or your mom’s initials, since your dad has already been honored once.<\/p>\n
I mentioned Louis as an example of an L name, and I think it’s a good candidate even if you’re not trying to match initials. It’s similar to Lucas, so maybe your husband will dislike it just as much, or maybe it’ll be different enough that it’ll be something you can agree on. My main hesitation is the way the -s of Louis hits up against the S- of Salazar, but it doesn’t make a combination that sounds like something negative or causes confusion about the names, so I think it’s fine.<\/p>\n
If Emmett is not quite right, I suggest Everett. Everett Salazar; Isaiah, Ayva, and Everett. This compromises on the matching beginnings\/endings: his name would start with a vowel, but not give you another -a\/-ah ending. And it’s great for Similarities\/Differences: three syllables like his brother’s; a V like his sister’s; all three have different numbers of letters; all three have at least one repeated letter (Isaiah has two I’s and two A’s; Ayva has two A’s; Everett has three E’s and two T’s). This is my first choice. I like it with Anthony or Jude as the middle name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Krystal writes: Hi Swistle, we are currently pregnant with our third (and probably last) baby, who we found out will be a boy and need help with naming. Our last name is Salazar (sale-ah-zar). Our two littles are named Isaiah Daniel and Ayva Jordan (with Isaiah, Daniel, and Jordan being family names). Names so far […]<\/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-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Z3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","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=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7633,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions\/7633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}