Jen writes:<\/p>\n
My husband and I are preparing for the arrival of our second baby (a girl!) any day now. For years we have talked about baby names, and we always thought we would name a daughter June Margo after our beloved grandmothers.<\/p>\n
However, we’ve also both fallen in love with the name Amelia Anne as well.<\/p>\n
This past week I happened to mention in passing to my sister that we were thinking of Amelia and she revealed that she and her husband have been “saving” that name for the past 7 years for their “someday” daughter (she has 4 boys and is pregnant with #5…as of yet they don’t know the gender).<\/p>\n
This seemed to cinch the deal for me that our baby would be June Margo. But, the more I think about it, the more worried I get. My name is Jennifer. Everyone I know calls me Jen, and my husband calls me Jenny. I have a sinking feeling that once baby girl arrives I will instantly regret my decision to give her a name so similar to mine. I’m starting to envision the confusion between our names only one vowel sound away from each other. On the other hand, we have always wanted to avoid “popular” names and Amelia seems to climb the charts every year.<\/p>\n
SO, here is the dilemma, should I approach my sister and hope she’ll compromise on her long saved name, or am I being paranoid about similar vowel sounds?
\nDo you think Jen\/June\/Jenny\/Junie will be confusing?
\nBaby girl has a big brother named Ezra, and our last name begins with a W and rhymes with Farnsworth.
\nCan you help me untangle this mess and set my mind at ease??<\/p>\nThanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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June seems distinct from Jen to me, and Junie distinct from Jenny. I can certainly hear the similar sounds, and I think there could be an occasional mis-hearing\/mis-saying of one name or the other, but not at a level that would affect the happiness of your lives. I just yelled out both names in an empty house as if summoning for dinner, and I think they’d actually sound quite different: the vowel sound really projects.<\/p>\n
You’d like to avoid popular names, and both Amelia and June are rising in popularity—but Amelia is at #23, while June is in the 400s. Furthermore, I think Ezra and June make a great sibling combination, while the combination of Ezra and Amelia draws attention to the matching -a endings.<\/p>\n
You have a name you’ve loved for years, a name that honors two beloved grandmothers—and you’re considering switching to a recently-added choice that would cause your sister distress whether or not she has a girl, as well as knocking both honorees out of place. I’m opposed to dibs on names, but this is a situation where I can’t see the good in switching to the one name your sister wants. If you no longer want to use June, there is still time to change it, but I wouldn’t change to Amelia. Perhaps if you have another daughter later on, and by then your sister is done having children, the name could be reconsidered.<\/p>\n
You could switch to Margo June: that would be lovely, and would completely eliminate the Jen\/June issue, as well as keeping both grandmother names.<\/p>\n
Or you could switch to Anne Margo, or Margo Anne.<\/p>\n
Or you could change to a name similar to Amelia, one that still leaves room for your sister to use Amelia. “Similar” is a pretty loose term, but here are a few I might consider:<\/p>\n
Abigail Anne (AAW)
\nAdelaide Anne (AAW)
\nAgatha Anne (AAW)
\nAubrey Anne (AAW)
\nAurora Anne (AAW)
\nCecilia Anne (rhymes, but that seems fun for cousins) (CAW)
\nCelia Anne (CAW)
\nClara Anne (CAW)
\nCordelia Anne (CAW)
\nDahlia Anne (DAW)
\nDelia Anne (DAW)
\nEliza Anne (probably too close to Ezra) (EAW)
\nElodie Anne (EAW)
\nEmerald Anne (EAW)
\nEmery Anne (EAW)
\nEmmeline Anne (EAW)
\nEvelyn Anne (EAW)
\nEverly Anne (EAW)
\nFelicity Anne (FAW)
\nGeorgia Anne (GAW)
\nHarriet Anne (HAW)
\nHazel Anne (HAW)
\nJulia Anne (JAW)
\nLouisa Anne (LAW)
\nLydia Anne (LAW)
\nMagnolia Anne (MAW)
\nMatilda Anne (MAW)
\nOlivia Anne (OAW)
\nPenelope Anne (PAW)
\nSabrina Anne (SAW)
\nSylvia Anne (SAW)
\nVeronica Anne (VAW)
\nVirginia Anne (VAW)<\/p>\nOr maybe it is the alliteration of Amelia Anne you like, and you could find other similar pairings. Julia Jane, for example, or Margo May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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