My husband and I are expecting our first child in September \u2013 a little boy. My name is Amanda Lee and my husband\u2019s name is Patrick Blake (he goes by Blake). Last name sounds like Kershmen.<\/p>\n
We have narrowed our choices down to two names but I feel like there are so many options we haven\u2019t considered. This is where you come in (hopefully!). The two names we like right now are Brady and Carter. We will probably use Mills (my maiden name) for a middle name. My husband\u2019s middle name, Blake, is his mom\u2019s maiden name, so we thought that might be a cool tradition to carry on. I\u2019m not married to that, though, and if the name we choose doesn\u2019t go with Mills as a middle name then we can change the middle name.<\/p>\n
My husband likes Carter because it is a family name. His grandfather\u2019s name was Anderson Carter. We also considered Anderson as a first name, which I absolutely love, but Anderson Kershmen sounds too long. Plus I don\u2019t want him to be called Andy. I also like Carter but for some reason I just don\u2019t love it. As of now, I\u2019m leaning towards Brady. My biggest concern right now is that it doesn\u2019t sound masculine enough\u2026 I guess because of the \u2013y ending. Should that be a concern or is that my pregnancy hormones talking?<\/p>\n
If we had a girl we would have named her Mila Blake (pronounced Myla). We plan on having 1 or 2 more kids after our son is born so hopefully we will eventually be able to use this name.<\/p>\n
Do you have any name suggestions that have a similar style to the ones we are considering (other than Grady or Brody)?<\/p>\n
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With Kershmen, my favorite is Brady: Carter Kershmen feels like a lot of C\/K and R sounds.<\/p>\n
Brady is currently used almost exclusively for boys. In 2012, there were 2,849 new baby boys and only 41 new baby girls named Brady (for comparison, 243 new baby girls were named Carter). I like the idea of Brady Mills Kershmen, and maybe Carter for a future child’s middle name.<\/p>\n
Other names that seem similar to Brady to me are Brayden and Aiden and Carson, but those all seem a little choppy with Kershmen. Maybe Davis? Davis Kershmen.<\/p>\n
Let’s have a poll for the two finalists!<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> Amanda writes:<\/p>\n Thanks so much to you and your readers for posting my question and for the great comments. Our son was born September 22 and my husband and I went back and forth on several name options until we finally decided on Brady Mills Kershmen.\u00a0 I think we knew that was his name all along, and we are so happy we chose it!\u00a0 Thank you again!<\/p>\n Amanda writes: My husband and I are expecting our first child in September \u2013 a little boy. My name is Amanda Lee and my husband\u2019s name is Patrick Blake (he goes by Blake). Last name sounds like Kershmen. We have narrowed our choices down to two names but I feel like there are so many […]<\/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-7892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-23i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892","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=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8530,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions\/8530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"BMK](\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BMK-1.jpg\")
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