would-be little girl<\/a> last time; this time we know for a fact that we have a little boy joining us the first week of August and we are starting to panic. I know we have four months left but naming the baby, and calling them by their name, has become a very big part of our bonding process (including adding their name to our bedtime prayers and starting on a name quilt) and right now we feel disconnected.<\/p>\nOur first child is Willi@m Br@dley, but we call him Liam (almost all the time). I love, love, love his name. He was named for my husband and my father and his name just makes me happy. For boy number two we wanted something that fits nicely as a full name with William and has a nickname that goes nicely with Liam (so I’m not yelling incongruous names down the street). Your help would be so, so valuable to us since we feel completely and utterly lost. <\/p>\n
For some context if we ever have a girl she would be Eleanor Ruth (we changed the middle from Delaney when we decided we really wanted family names) and we’d like to have no more than four children. We’ve given up all hope on a family first name for Boy #2, though we do still try to accommodate my other completely arbitrary naming “rule” that their first and middle name adds up to no more than four syllables (Emily Gr@ce, @aron Willi@m, Willi@m Br@dley, ……..) <\/p>\n
We like…
\nTheodore, but don’t like the nicknames (Theo, Teddy, Ted, TJ)
\nElijah, but my husband just isn’t sold
\nOscar, but calling him Ozzie for a nickname seems like we’re trying too hard and Oscar just didn’t stick
\nKillian, but don’t want him to have to reference a beer for his whole life
\nLachlan, but it didn’t “test drive” well (nn: Lachy [locky])
\nCharles, but we don’t want to seem like anglophiles
\nLouis, again, it didn’t “test drive” well
\nEdward, but there’s a negative family connection
\nThomas, but we don’t like Tommy (or Freddy for Frederick, Phil for Phillip)
\nEdwin, which my husband says sounds too “old man”
\nEzra, we’re afraid it’s too short next to his brother’s name
\nMicah, just doesn’t seem to fit (William, Micah, Eleanor)
\nAaron, my husband never liked his first name so he doesn’t want to use it for baby #2
\nLevi, same issue as Ezra<\/p>\n
Samuel Willi@m and Jackson C@rl are my brothers but we love their names. We’d like to use Jackson as a middle name if possible but that’s not set in stone either. Other family names we’ve considered for the middle are Russell, Sterling, Joseph, or Ward. None of them were deemed likable enough (or there were other reasons) for not using them as first names.<\/p>\n
My husband’s favorite is Howard (for family and literary reasons) but I have threatened to do everything short of kidnapping the baby in order to not name him Howard. My favorite was Tobias (nn: Toby) but my husband said that’s an absolute no-go for him. This caused us to agree to veto both names completely and not bring them up again so they’re both off the list.<\/p>\n
As you can see we’re all over the place. Even reading through each and every one of the Baby Name Wizard name style lists hasn’t helped. Please point us in the right direction!<\/p>\n
Thank you so much for your help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Emily writes: We are adrift in a sea of likable names with absolutely no respite on the horizon. You helped us name our would-be little girl last time; this time we know for a fact that we have a little boy joining us the first week of August and we are starting to panic. I […]<\/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-8743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2h1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743","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=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8744,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions\/8744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}