{"id":8059,"date":"2013-09-02T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T14:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2013-09-02T14:11:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T18:11:42","slug":"baby-name-to-consider-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2013\/09\/02\/baby-name-to-consider-nixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Name to Consider: Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebecca writes:<\/p>\n

I have been having a hard time completely deciding on our future baby boy’s name. We have 3 other children, a set of twins who are 3 (Rowan Geremy and Payton Alexis) and a 1 year old (Zoey Elizabeth) all with the last name Newbury.<\/p>\n

We are expecting a boy in less than 2 weeks and have agreed on the name Nixon Parker Newbury. I think the name is nice and modern like our other names but I just need to be sure it is the right name for him. We don’t have any girl names picked out as we know this is a boy.<\/p>\n

I really like the name Kai Parker and Zeke Parker but think (almost certain) that I like Nixon the best of them all.<\/p>\n

What are your thoughts on the name? Does it sound okay? I know many parents go in with a few names, but we have always gone in knowing what the baby will be called and have never swayed from what we had chosen.<\/p>\n

I may be over thinking this as we know this one will be our last but I want to be sure the name is suitable. We also don’t care that it doesn’t have a meaning as most of the other names we have chosen don’t have significant meanings either.<\/p>\n

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In my own opinion, the notoriety of former president Richard Nixon keeps this name from being useable in the United States. The association for me is direct, undiluted by other associations, and negative—and I wasn’t even around for his presidency. It’s been 40 years and we’re still making “I am not a crook” jokes and using the “____gate” format for scandals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This opinion is far from universal: in 2012 alone, there were 362 new baby boys and 12 new baby girls named Nixon. And outside of the United States, I wouldn’t expect the name to have much of an association at all. The sound of it is indeed on-trend, and fits well with Peyton and Rowan. I might hesitate slightly to use three names ending in N and one not, and Nixon Newbury seems like a lot of N sounds, but I wouldn’t let those details override my first-choice name.<\/p>\n

Another possibility to consider is Lennox. It has the “nix” sound of Nixon, and is unisex like Rowan and Peyton. And it adds another name ending so that Zoey isn’t odd-one-out.<\/p>\n

Or maybe Maxon? Or Baxter? Or Nicholson?<\/p>\n

Let’s collect a wider set of opinions about the name Nixon:<\/p>\n

[yop_poll id=”27″]<\/p>\n

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Rebecca writes: I have been having a hard time completely deciding on our future baby boy’s name. We have 3 other children, a set of twins who are 3 (Rowan Geremy and Payton Alexis) and a 1 year old (Zoey Elizabeth) all with the last name Newbury. We are expecting a boy in less than […]<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-to-consider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-25Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059","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=8059"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8070,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions\/8070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}