L. writes:<\/p>\n
We’re about to welcome our third child, and second daughter – and we’re stumped on a name. Our last name rules some unusable – Gucci with an M – for instance I love the name Harry for a little boy – but put it with our last name, and it just sounds wrong. Le sigh.<\/p>\n
When we were pregnant with our first (son) we loved Eleanor (nn Nora) – which was a family name. We also loved Claire Elizabeth, and Greta Elizabeth. But alas – we had a boy – and William Thomas (nn Will) it was (both family names!)<\/p>\n
Fast forward 20 months – and our first daughter arrived – We had met so many Nora’s since we’d had Will – that was off the table – We felt Claire was a little too traditional, and while I still loved and adored Greta – my husband was over it. We considered names like Scarlett (which almost won!), Vivienne, Thalia, Elise. My husband was 100% for Colette – but I never warmed to it. Ultimately we chose Annika Catherine – partially for Scandinavian heritage on my side, but mostly just because we liked it – and Catherine was a family name. We love the name but don’t love the two very distinct pronunciations – we say Annika (Ahn-i-ka vs, Ann-i-ka).<\/p>\n
Fastforward another 13 months and we’re faced with the same baby girl naming dilemma. We expect her in 2-3 weeks and are desperate to find a name we love -we have a list – but keep searching – which tells me the perfect name is out there and hasn’t been found!<\/p>\n
Current list:<\/p>\n
1. Scarlett (a. grace\u00a0 b. elizabeth\u00a0 c. eleanor)
\n2. Sloane
\n3. Sienna
\n4. Clara
\n5. Natalie
\n6. Tessa
\n7. Gia<\/p>\nWe’d like to incorporate a family name – preferably Bevan – as a middle but have the following since Bevan doesn’t always flow with names:
\nElizabeth, Eleanor, Deyette, Helen, Angelina, Marjorie<\/p>\nEliminated names:
\nLoralei
\nGrace
\nArden
\nElla
\nLeila\/Leyla
\nEmerson
\nBrooklyn
\nJuliette
\nMarina
\nKarina
\nLydia
\nLila
\nLea
\nSonia
\nPiper
\nRowan
\nLarkin
\nNeve
\nAya
\nSkylar
\nRoyce
\nAria
\nclea
\nSkye
\nKaia
\nBreelyn
\nElle
\nEliana \u201cLia\u201d
\nCaroline
\nColette
\nGreta<\/p>\nMaybe it’s naming exhaustion – or pregnancy brain – but 3 times in 3 years – I’m coming up empty! HELP!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L. writes: We’re about to welcome our third child, and second daughter – and we’re stumped on a name. Our last name rules some unusable – Gucci with an M – for instance I love the name Harry for a little boy – but put it with our last name, and it just sounds wrong. […]<\/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-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2h6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748","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=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8751,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}