{"id":8385,"date":"2013-11-20T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T15:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=8385"},"modified":"2013-11-20T11:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T15:11:28","slug":"baby-names-similar-to-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2013\/11\/20\/baby-names-similar-to-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Names Similar to Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished reading the book Fin & Lady<\/a> which, as you might have guessed, has a character in it named Lady. My conclusion after reading the book was that the name wouldn’t work for a variety of reasons (turns a name into a title; too lightweight; some people will say it’s a “dog’s name”), but that I was nevertheless finding it tremendously appealing. I wondered if there might be a name that was similar to Lady without sharing its issues.<\/p>\n

I started by searching the Social Security data base for names with a “dy” sound at the end:<\/p>\n

Addy
\nBrady
\nBrandy
\nCady
\nCandy
\nCassidy
\nCindy
\nCody
\nGoldy
\nHeidi
\nJody
\nJudy
\nKennedy
\nLindy
\nMaddy
\nMandy
\nMelody
\nMindy
\nSandy
\nTrudy
\nWendy<\/p>\n

This list failed to please. For one thing, so many of those names are currently out of fashion. For another thing, none of them feel like they capture the sound of Lady. Melody and Lindy came closest for me.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it would be better to look at the first syllable.<\/p>\n

Lacey
\nLaken
\nLane
\nLaney
\nLayla
\nLayna
\nLeia
\nLeighton<\/p>\n

None of those quite do it, either. Lacey came closest for me.<\/p>\n

I wondered if we could find similar noun names—but names like Princess and Duchess feel too silly, and names like Elle or Colleen (“she” and “girl,” respectively) ought to be good equivalents but don’t capture the nouny feel I’m looking for.<\/p>\n

I think my favorite would be to use the name Adelaide with the nickname Lady\/Laidey. But Melody is growing on me by the minute.<\/p>\n

Can you think of any other ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished reading the book Fin & Lady which, as you might have guessed, has a character in it named Lady. My conclusion after reading the book was that the name wouldn’t work for a variety of reasons (turns a name into a title; too lightweight; some people will say it’s a “dog’s name”), […]<\/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-8385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2bf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385","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=8385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8389,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions\/8389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}