I am due in April with our second child. We have decided not to find out the gender so it will be a surprise at the birth. This means we have to have names prepared for both a girl and a boy. My husband and I both have unusual names -Dax & Thara (like Sarah with a “Th”) our sons name is Simeon Dax. Surname is German, Reinitz (like “rye” & “knits”)<\/p>\n
Here is our problem…we can’t decide on a girls name! The ones we like right now are Jocelyn Lee (after our mothers) but we can’t agree on the spelling. He wants Josalin and I like Jocelyn so we are at an impasse. We also like Felicity Ann and are considering Eleanor. We would really like to use my name since it is a 3rd generation family name but can’t find a suitable middle name that sounds good and that we like enough for her to go by (two Thara’s in one house would be confusing!)<\/p>\n
We love the fact that our names are not very common and want to stay away from popular\/cutesy names but don’t want something totally off the wall either. What the name means is also a big factor especially if it doesn’t have a significant namesake\/meaning for us personally. We also don’t want anything that is widely considered unisex ie Jordan, Madison etc.<\/p>\n
If the baby is a boy his name will most likely be George Truman (family names we love!) & go by his middle name but we also like the name Silas so we are considering that one too.<\/p>\n
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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When I see the spelling Josalin, my brain links it to Rosa and Rosalind and I want to pronounce it with a long-O and a Z-sound: JOE-zah-lin instead of JOSS-sah-lin. With time and practice I would learn the pronunciation, but I would personally avoid an unnecessarily difficult spelling unless there’s a particular reason to use it (if, for example, that’s the way the honoree’s name is spelled, although even then I might opt to change at this point to a standard spelling)—especially since overall you seem to like traditional spellings.<\/p>\n
I like Thara Felicity: the family name, and then a name from your list (with a great meaning) that you like well enough for her to go by. If I were the village namer and you came to me to have your baby assigned a name, that’s probably the one I’d choose. Or would you want to use Thara as the middle name, to avoid confusion? Felicity Thara Reinitz is nice, or Jocelyn Thara Reinitz.<\/p>\n
George Truman is great, or I like Truman George if you’re planning to call him Truman either way. Simeon and Silas are quite compatible in style, but both “Silas Reinitz” and “Simeon and Silas” seem very heavy on the S-sound to me.<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> Thara writes:<\/p>\n I wrote to you to ask advice about our baby’s name. At the time we didn’t know it was a girl but here she is…Felicity Ann! We love her and her name :)<\/p>\n Thara writes: I am due in April with our second child. We have decided not to find out the gender so it will be a surprise at the birth. This means we have to have names prepared for both a girl and a boy. My husband and I both have unusual names -Dax & Thara […]<\/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-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2cB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","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=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9032,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"photo\"](\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/photo.jpg\")
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