{"id":8920,"date":"2014-05-13T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2014-05-13T21:39:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T01:39:10","slug":"baby-naming-issue-are-brylee-and-breelyn-too-close-for-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2014\/05\/13\/baby-naming-issue-are-brylee-and-breelyn-too-close-for-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Are Brylee and Breelyn Too Close for Sisters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabe writes:<\/p>\n

Hello!
\nI have a dilemma and I think it might be ridiculous but none the less I need baby name help stat!!<\/p>\n

My wife is due June 10! We are expecting a girl we already have a daughter. Her name is Brylee Grace Rodriguez. We liked the idea of Hope for a middle name. An we came across Breelyn for the first name.<\/p>\n

We have been calling her this for months but now I am thinking its so similar to Brylee. Am I overthinking it? Need help fast! I’ve been digging back into names but no luck! My wife and daughter were set on Breelyn.<\/p>\n

Please help!!!
\nGabe<\/p>\n

Dad’s name is Elias Gabriel
\nMom’s name Kayla Danielle<\/p>\n

Names off limits
\nMaddison
\nChloe
\nAva
\nGiuliana
\nDanika
\nElyssa
\nDanae
\nDominique
\nTeagan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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They seem much too close to me: both starting with Br-; one containing -lee and the other containing -eel; both including a Y. The names are made up of similar elements: Bree and Lee, and Bry and Lyn. They look at first like two different arrangements of the same letters. My mind immediately starts mixing and matching, getting Briley and Breeley, for example, or Brylyn and Brinley. I found that even after reading the letter many times and studying the names fairly closely, I continued to have trouble remembering which were the actual names under consideration: I had to keep looking back at the original letter. I would recommend noticing the sounds and letters you like, and seeing what other names have a similar sound. Keelyn, for example, or Aubree.<\/p>\n

But name similarity can be subjective: one person’s way too close is another person’s adorably matched. Let’s have a poll:<\/p>\n

[yop_poll id=”52″]<\/p>\n

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Gabe writes: Hello! I have a dilemma and I think it might be ridiculous but none the less I need baby name help stat!! My wife is due June 10! We are expecting a girl we already have a daughter. Her name is Brylee Grace Rodriguez. We liked the idea of Hope for a middle […]<\/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-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2jS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","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=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}