Please help! My husband and I are expecting our second daughter in March and having a tough time deciding on a name!<\/p>\n
My husbands name is Stephen Paul (he is a junior) and I am Christine Agafia (middle name from Russian GG). Our last name is Carsons with a P.<\/p>\n
My daughters name is Sydney Paige, her initials SPP are the same as my husbands, which he thinks is really cool. Sydney was named the moment we found out she was a girl! I had loved the name for a long time after working with someone who I respected and admired! Also love her name for the nicknames, SPP, Syd, Syd vicous (my husbands music reference).<\/p>\n
Which brings us to baby girl # 2. We cannot decide on anything! She will be the final addition to our family so we are good with doing another S name or not.
\nHere is our very short list:<\/p>\n
Scarlett Posey -Posey is family name from my husbands side and also spells SPP
\nCharlotte James – James from my father however have concerns that Charlotte is too popular
\nShay
\nKatherine “Kate” – have loved this name for a long time however had a friend name her daughter this recently, I feel its out but husband disagrees
\nCaroline – also loved name however cousin just named her daughter this a few weeks ago and this name is definitely out!<\/p>\n
So our list is basically Scarlett, Charlotte and Shay. I’m leaning towards Scarlett but fear that the name is too dramatic and that Charlotte is too popular. We are also looking for a good nickname name, which is another reason I struggle with Scarlett.<\/p>\n
Thank you very much for time and consideration in help with naming our daughter!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I would be inclined to give your second daughter the same initials as yours, especially since: (1) your first daughter has her father’s initials; (2) your first daughter uses her initials as one of her nicknames; (3) both girls have their father’s surname; (4) there’s a C-name already high on your list. Charlotte Avril, Charlotte Amelia, Charlotte Anne, etc. I might lean toward a less frilly middle name, to better coordinate with the name Sydney Page: Charlotte Avery, Charlotte Alex, Charlotte Aubrey, etc.<\/p>\n
The name Charlotte is popular, yes, but it’s not out of hand: it was given to .39% of U.S. baby girls in 2012, which is fewer than 1 girl out of 250. Statistically, that means approximately one girl named Charlotte for every twenty classrooms (assuming twenty-five kids in a class, approximately half girls)—though of course names can vary considerably from one region to another, so that one school will not have a single Charlotte in the whole building and another school will have twenty times the national average and a Charlotte in each classroom. The name Charlotte also has great nickname flexibility if she wants\/needs it: Charlie, Lottie, Cap or Cappy from her initials. And I like that Sydney and Charlotte could both be considered place names.<\/p>\n
I also think Sydney and Scarlett are well-coordinated. Looking at your nickname list for Sydney, I suspect you would find that nicknames came naturally for a Scarlett as well. Lettie would be my favorite nickname for Scarlett: I like the contrast between the extreme sass of Scarlett and the pioneer sweetness of Lettie. Or a Scarlett could certainly be nicknamed Red or Rosie, or O’Hara. I might also look for a middle name that would increase your nickname options. For example, Scarlett Louise would give you Lettie Lou. Or any middle name other than P would give you the option to call her by her initials. Or if you named her Scarlett Posey, you could add Posey and Posey-pie to the list of nicknames. And so on.<\/p>\n
Sydney and Shay seem well-coordinated as well, though they look very similar to me when I see them typed next to each other like that. And you’re looking for a good nickname name, and the name Shay doesn’t meet that preference—though there are always nicknames like Shay-shay, Shayla, Shaylina, Shay-bay, and so on. The middle-name strategy would work here, too: For example, Shay Katherine could be called Shay Kate or Shay Kay or S.K. or SKP or Skip (from the initials).<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> Christine writes:<\/p>\n Thank you so much for all of the excellent suggestions! My husband and I loved and appreciated all of the input and considered all of the options….<\/p>\n Charlotte .James Carsons (with a P) was born on March 24, 2014<\/p>\n Christine writes: Please help! My husband and I are expecting our second daughter in March and having a tough time deciding on a name! My husbands name is Stephen Paul (he is a junior) and I am Christine Agafia (middle name from Russian GG). Our last name is Carsons with a P. My daughters 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2dj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","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=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8796,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions\/8796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screen](\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-04-13-at-1.44.28-PM.png\")
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