Emily writes:<\/p>\n
Hello! We are expecting our third son in July and are struggling with names. Our other children are Oliver Beckett and Silas Athen. Our last name is short (Howe) so I feel that one-syllable first names don’t flow as nicely as longer ones. My husband and I are both teachers so that can make thinks trickier. I tend to gravitate towards “older” choices. I believe we’ve settled on Douglas for a middle since our other boys have family names from my side and Douglas would honor my father-in-law and this will be our last baby.<\/p>\n
Here are some from our list:
\nWhitaker: probably the front-runner right now but…too long? Too surname-y? Too close to his brother’s -er ending? I do like Whit as a nn.
\nEverett: I don’t love Ev as a short version; also, husband isn’t a fan.
\nClement: Seems I like a -t ending. Too like the sausage company, but I think Clem is a cute nn.
\nMilo: Love but not the O ending in combo w our last name.
\nHawthorne: Too much alliteration? Too “out there”?
\nLeopold: I like Leo as a nn but, like Milo, not in combination with our last name.
\nLinden: My mother’s name was Linda and I’d love to honor her but I’m afraid this sounds too feminine and also offers no suitable nn. This would be incorporated as either a first or middle with a varied spelling if we were having a girl.<\/p>\nI want to looooove this name and I’m just not there yet. Any input and\/or suggestions would be welcome!<\/p>\n
Thank you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Emily writes: Hello! We are expecting our third son in July and are struggling with names. Our other children are Oliver Beckett and Silas Athen. Our last name is short (Howe) so I feel that one-syllable first names don’t flow as nicely as longer ones. My husband and I are both teachers so that can […]<\/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-8960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2kw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960","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=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8961,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}