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Baby Girl or Boy, Sibling to Cameron, Jacob, and Amelia

Savannah writes:

We are really hoping that you can help us out so I’m writing to you way in advance, so I hope you can get to my question!

We are expecting our 4th child, gender unknown, due around January 10th, 2011. Older siblings are Cameron John, Jacob Ryan and Amelia Emily “Cam, Jake and Mia”. We would like a modern name with a nice nickname for them, but still their full name to fall back on. We seem to have a good list of girl’s names going, but we would still like your opinion. Boys on the other hand? We have absolutely no idea and have no names in mind. Please help us. Our list of girls names:

Abigail- we love this name, but we have tried as hard as possible to avoid same initials with the kids
Lucia- we’re worried that everyone will pronounce it “loo-sha” instead of “lu-see-ah”
Brooklyn- love the name, but we have a nephew named Brooks
Delaney- I LOVE this name, but the hubby isn’t that thrilled with it

Please help!!!!

Name update! Savannah writes:

So sorry this is so late, but I just wanted to let you know that our daughter Lucia Brooke (last name) “Lucy” was born on January 6th, 2011, weighing in at a petite 5lbs. 9 oz. Thank you so much for your readers help with her name. We have had no problems with pronunciation of her name, even though we do introduce her as Lucy to most people. We compromised and instead of Brooklyn as a middle name, we used Brooke. Thank you again!

Baby Girl Ramsey, Sister to Judah

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Sarah writes:

My name is Sarah and my husband’s name is John. We are expecting our second child, a daughter, on January 8. We have an almost 2 year-old son named Judah and our last name is Ramsey. We are struggling to name our daughter, and I would really appreciate your help. Her middle name will be a family name, and I’m not too concerned about how it works with her first name.

Our first choice is Luella, nickname Lulu, but I am concerned because it hasn’t been in the Top 1000 names since 1955. We prefer names that aren’t too popular, but I’m worried that there’s something about this name that makes it unpopular that I’m not seeing. Other names we like:

Talia
Elise / Elisa
Ruth – my least favorite, but we’ve been using this as her “interim” name and it has grown on me.

I’d really appreciate any feedback you have on the names I’ve listed, plus any other ideas you have.

Thank you!

I think you should use Luella! If other people haven’t noticed it, it’s because they’re being dim: the combination of Lucy and Ella SHOULD be irresistible! I like it with Ruth as a middle name.

Baby Boy or Girl J_______ss

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Somer writes:

We’re expecting our first child the first week of January (due date is 1/6/11). We don’t know whether it’s a boy or girl, but quite truthfully we’re comfortable with our girl names and are truly struggling with boy names. And, we’re both convinced it’s a boy – go figure!

Just for informative purposes, we’re pretty certain that the girl name will be Ruby Marie. We both love Ruby because it’s simple, classic and not too popular or too out there (plus it’s my birth stone:). The middle name is my grandmother’s name and my husband’s grandmother was Mary, which wouldn’t go with Ruby (ends in Y), so Marie is a good mix and a solid middle name (we think). Other possibilities we have for a girl include: Stella, Penelope, Olive, Mia or Camilla (calling her Milly, though I’m not huge into naming one name with the intention of calling the baby something else).

Our last name is pretty long. When spoken properly, it’s three syllables. Begins with a J and ends in ss. So, that basically nixes anything ending in an S.

Even without knowing the gender, we get asked about the name all the time. I think this is what’s causing us our boy name trouble. We both really love Winston. But, mostly everyone that we’ve told hates the name. My Mom says it reminds her of the cigarettes, some say they know yappy dogs by that name and others say it’s pretentious (among other critiques). It’s definitely still on the top of the list – the front runner – but something inside me is not quite 100% sure. If it’s a boy and we go with Winston, the middle name will be James. That’s my husband’s middle name and his father and grandfathers’ as well. Plus, it sounds nice together. Other possibilities that we have for boy are: Oscar (my husband loves, but I’m not sure), Liam (my husband loves, I’m not sure), Milo (I like, my husband doesn’t), and Oliver (we both like). There is one more thing. IF..it’s a boy and IF…he happens to come on January 9 (which is possible with a January 6 due date), then that would be my grandfather’s 100th birthday and I would LOVE to use at least one of his names (plus it’s the same name as my Dad) – Norman or Cornelius.

So, that’s where we are with our baby naming issue. Any help, suggestions, or advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much.

Oh, now I am all excited for a baby boy to be born on January 9th! Wouldn’t that be FUN?? I might use either of the names as middle name—or, and I think this is more likely, I’d use both: [First name, whatever you choose] [Norman Cornelius] [Surname]. This lets you dramatically increase the namesakey impact without having to use the name(s) in the first name slot. And in my own experience, two middle names isn’t too much of a hassle.

Winston does make me think slightly of cigarettes (or, more accurately, of a handsome rugged man on a horse in a cigarette ad), but only a little bit, and only because I haven’t yet known a little boy named Winston. For me a far stronger association is Winston Churchill, and I’ve had a crush on Winston Churchill ever since seeing a musical version of one of his speeches. Yappy dog versus “Lift up your hearts, all will come right”? No contest.

But if it continues to seem not quite right, I suggest Winslow. It has much of the same sound, but softer and no associations with cigarettes or with British politicians, and it goes well with Ruby in case you later have a girl. Weston would work, too, though it seems to me it drifts away from your style. Maybe Warren? Wilson? I seem to be getting hung up on W names. Oliver is another of my long-standing favorites, and it too would go very well with a potential future sister named Ruby.

I also suggest not telling anyone the name until the baby is born and they’d have to state their objections to his soft little newborn cheeks.

Name update! Somer writes:

Hi there – thanks so much for your input and help with our baby name (posted December 10). Our baby boy (we guessed it) came a week early and was born on December 30 at 7:26am. We actually had gotten the name from Winston as in Churchill – I forgot to mention that my husband is British – and we ended up going with Winston James. We’re even going to put some famous Winston Churchill quotes on his bedroom wall. Like you said, once he was here, nobody really cared about the name; people now even say they like it. Perhaps Norman or Cornelius will find their way into a future child’s name.

Baby Girl Annest-Clark

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Ashley writes:

My partner and I are expecting our first on January 2 (That’s the truth so no crying baby Jesus) and we are having some conflict on the perfect name. We are set on the middle name Mae as it is a family name for us both. I like the name Taylor but was quickly shot down as she has a huge dislike of Taylor swift. We also liked Harper for a long time, but its growing popularity has made us shy away from it. Georgia,Charlotte, and Caroline are in the same boat. She really loves McLaine, but its a total no for me. We have a few parameters for choosing the name. 1.) we do not want an overly trendy name i.e. Aiden, Braden, Caden, Emma, Ava, etc. 2.) must have nick names 3.) we would like a name that is feminine, in other words we don’t want the little girl with the 2 mommies to have the boy name, but we are open to Unisex names like Reagan and Jordan. 4.) because the last name, Annest-Clark we don’t want the baby to have a too long of a name.

So far the top names in no particular order are:

Everleigh
Mattea
Madigan
Rory
Mirabel
Tatum

Thanks for your help.

I have trouble adding to your list—it seems like exactly the right list! I will see if I can narrow it down a little.

Madigan has the nickname Maddy, which means she would be sharing with all the Madisons and Madeleines; it might be a little annoying to have people continually assuming your daughter’s name was Madison.

Rory lacks nicknames.

I think my favorite is Everleigh: it’s pretty and feminine and has good nicknames and sounds good with the middle name. If you want to reduce the length of the name, you could spell it Everly.

Name update! Ashley writes:

We welcomed our baby girl on December 18th, more than two weeks early! She is a healthy, happy baby. We went a totally different direction with our name than we thought. Her name is Olivia Mae, and the name suits her perfectly. Thanks for your advice and all the suggestions of readers, Merry Christmas!

Baby Naming Issue: Baby Name Regret 2

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Terra writes:

So, I am coming to you again…..wrote to you earlier about Baby Girl Patterson. She is here and is now 2 weeks old. We went to the hospital with Catherine “Cate” Hazel in mind, but with a few others from our list as well. We didn’t name her until they were kicking us out of the hospital and we went with what we had liked the longest – Catherine Hazel. We couldn’t decide between that and Caroline “Carly” Harper. Again, my son is Grady Owen, and we call him Gray.

For some reason, I felt liked she looked like a Carly in the hospital (although I have always thought people were crazy when they said a newborn “looked” like a certain name). But I was afraid I would regret not using Cate and so I went with that. My husband wanted me to decide. He likes all the names fine, but his biggest thing is he doesn’t want her to have a name like a dozen other little girls in school. He is Josh and hated that when he was growing up for that very reason.

Now that we are home and she is Cate, it just doesn’t feel right. When I say it, when I hear it, any of it. I don’t know if this is just a case of name remorse, b/c Baby Name Wizard specifically says that you should NOT wait until you are looking at the baby to decide. That you will second guess yourself for weeks. So maybe that is it. I also think it could be that we just need to get used to it. Since we had not decided for sure, we haven’t really been calling her that before she was born. Or, is the name wrong???

The other names we are considering are:

Charlotte Harper – do you think Charlotte will make it to top 10? My husband loves this name and I like it too. Think it goes well with Gray. But if we are trying to avoid overly popular, maybe we shouldn’t go this route.

Caroline “Carly” Harper – I have always liked the name Carly, but we do wonder if the style of the name goes well with Grady/Gray. I have also had several parents mention the TV show icarly to me. I wasn’t aware of this. Do you think this name will become trendy? Is it a totally different feel than Gray?

Hazel Sutton – I am falling more and more in love with Hazel, but I don’t know if I want to use it for a first name. One issue is the color thing. Do you think of a color when you hear Hazel? Because my son is Gray, I want to avoid sounding like I am naming my children after a box of crayons. That is the reason I didn’t use Violet, which i love. Also, I adore the name – but I wonder if she will like it one day or think it is too old lady sounding? The other option here is to call her Sutton, which is my husband’s favorite. I like that it is different, but wonder if it is too boy sounding.

And finally, my issues with Cate – I was already concerned about the popularity of it, especially with all the close names like Kaitlyn, Kate, Katherine, etc. And then the whole Kate Middleton thing isn’t helping right now. I also do not want her called Catie at any point since my son is Grady. BUT, we exclusively call him Gray – so I don’t think we need to worry about him going by Grady and her being called Catie later. I also feel weird saying it, like it is so short and the “ate” sound. Maybe I like the way it looks better than sounds…or maybe I am just overly emotional right now and totally sleep deprived. :)

So, please give me your feedback and advice on all the names. We want something that goes well enough with our son’s name, that isn’t too popular, and not too strange. My only musts are I want to use either Hazel or Harper somewhere in the name, and using Harper as the first name isn’t an option (husband doesn’t like it). We also don’t want to call her Catherine (for family reasons I won’t go into).

Baby Girl needs a final name! I feel so bad that I am still undecided!!!

We recently answered a similar question, and I’d say the same answer applies to this one: i.e., that you certainly can change the name, but that if there isn’t a specific name you feel is the perfect one to switch it to, you’re likely to continue feeling indecisive even after you change it.

I do think that a “baby already named” naming decision is much different than a “baby not yet named” decision. When the baby is not yet named, we can all discuss the merits of various names, and which we’d prefer, and which combinations work best and so forth. Once the baby is named, it doesn’t work to re-open the discussion as if the baby had not yet been named: it’s a matter of whether you want to switch it, and whether you think switching it will make you happy, and which name you feel strongly enough about to be worth the hassle and kerfuffle.

If the baby were not yet named, I’d be advising you to start over: the names you have on your list are causing you to go in circles. Since the baby is named, I find I have a very strong opinion: I think you should keep her name and call her Catherine instead of Cate. It seems to me that most (if not all) of your current uncertainty is about the nickname: too short, wrong sound, too common, too much like Grady/Gray, not wanting it changed to Catie. Calling her Catherine solves all of these problems, and Catherine is a wonderful name: one of my children has a classmate named Catherine, and it is a pleasing fresh surprise each time I hear it. At only 3 syllables, I don’t think it requires a nickname, though a nickname may come about naturally (I knew a Katherine who went by Kitty as a child, and a Catherine who in her high school years went by Cat). Gray and Catherine is a wonderful sibling set.

I think you made a very good, solid choice when you chose Catherine Hazel, and I think you would be sorry in the long term if you changed it to Charlotte (which is widely predicted to get even more popular) or Carly (which is a less solid choice to begin with, and then has the iCarly complication) or Hazel (which does sound like a color to me when I hear it with Gray).

[Edited to add:] Dang it: as Elle pointed out in the comments, I missed the part about not calling her Catherine for family reasons. In that case, I don’t have any ideas. None of the other names/combinations on your list seem right to you, either, and shuffling them around seems to be increasing the “NOTHING WORKS!!” anxiety. I think you’ll have to choose between calling her Cate or starting all over with a new list. Or perhaps find a non-name-related nickname to call her. Or call her “Rinnie” for the second half of Catherine. Or perhaps the “family reasons” can be overcome?

Baby Girl Sullivan, Sister to Emery

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Michelle writes:

We just found out we are having another girl due Jan. 2 and are struggling with a name.
We named our first daughter with relative ease. Emery (after my grandfather) Margaret Sue for her grandmothers. Our last name is Sullivan.
The husband vetoed Violet and Fiona and I vetoed Lily. Her middle name will be Sarah after my sister so that eliminates any A names because I would prefer her initials not spell profanity. I also don’t think any S names will do.
I want to avoid anything in the top 100 baby names. I do like slightly unusual or something that sounds older.
We need help!

Thanks!

Because the name Emery is androgynous, I hesitate to go too feminine for a sister name. And because I think of it as a more modern name (for girls, that is—for boys it’s a throwback), I hesitate to go too traditional or classic for a sister name.

Chauncey Sarah Sullivan, Emery and Chauncey
Delaney Sarah Sullivan, Emery and Delaney
Hadley Sarah Sullivan, Emery and Hadley
Harper Sarah Sullivan, Emery and Harper
Macy Sarah Sullivan, Emery and Macy
Paisley Sarah Sullivan, Emery and Paisley
Trilby Sarah Sullivan, Emery and Trilby

But I’m thrown off because your contenders (Violet, Fiona, and Lily) are so very feminine and established.

Maybe something like Hazel? It’s a recent revival but still fully steeped in that old-timey sound. Hazel Sarah Sullivan; Emery and Hazel.

Or Willa: Willa Sarah Sullivan, Emery and Willa.

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Baby Naming Issue: Baby Name Regret

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Amy writes:

You probably don’t get emails like this often (about re-naming a 4 month
old baby) but I am struggling with baby name regret right now – probably
because I didn’t discover your site until after my daughter was born. We
named our daughter Evelyn Suz@nne. Our last name is Qu1nn. Suz@nne is
after my mother. Evelyn is a name that my husband and I agreed upon – but I
always felt kind of on the fence about it. It was always at the top of my
husband’s list. I have trouble making decisions and went with my husband’s
(2nd) fave because I couldn’t decide. His favorite was Virginia, his
mother’s name – which I do like – but had reservations about using.

I have not felt good about her name since she was born and am seriously
contemplating changing it. At first my husband was adamant that we would
not change the name – but has reconsidered if it would truly make me happy.
We also may add a name instead of changing it altogeter. The other names on
our list before she was born were Sadie, Sarah and Molly. At this point, I
don’t really like any of those and realize that I did not put enough
thought into naming the baby during my pregnancy. After she was born I came
up with a new list of names, Anna being on the top of the list. I later
found out my sister-in-law is using this name in January for her daughter
and then that it was my great-grandmothers name. I had always meant to look
at my family tree for a name but never did. I did suggest Anna to my
husband when i was pregnant, but he shot it down. However, I would have
fought for it harder if I knew it was a family name. Catherine is another
family name that we both like but can’t use because we have a niece named
Katherine/Katie. My husband and I were looking for a name with a good
nickname. We call our daughter Evy (rhymes with Chevy). While I think Evy
is cute, I’m not sure it feels like a name to me. I also worry about
childhood teasing and Heavy Evy – a connection I did not make before. My
husband does not want a top 10 name. I thought the same before the baby was
born, but have reconsidered now that she’s here. I would much prefer a name
I really liked over a name I liked less but was less popular. Here are some
names I’m considering changing it to:

– Elizabeth (great-grandmother’s name and grandmother’s sisters name) nn libby?
– Clara
– Emma (too popular?)
– Isabel nn Izzy (too popular?)
– Amelia nn Milllie, Mia
– Chloe
– Rose (great aunt)
– Keira
– Maia

Names I would pick if I had the courage (or my husband would let me)
– Violet
– Francesca
– Maisie
– Clementine

Family names
– Louise (great-grandmother)
– Beatrice (great-great aunt)

As you can see, I’m a bit all over the place. With my two favorites – Anna
and Catherine – out of the running, I’m not sure where to go. I’d
appreciate any advice you have to give.

Thank you!

I remember writing about this twice, once for changing a baby’s name and once for a baby girl—but I can’t find the post about the baby girl. Oh wait—I wonder if it was before I had the baby name blog? YES! here it is, on my regular blog. I also sort of wrote about it again on my regular blog.

I can sum those up for people who don’t want to click through:

1. I’m not opposed to changing a baby’s name, and I think there are many good reasons for doing so.

2. If you’re going to do it, the earlier the better.

3. There will be SOME kerfuffle no matter what, but probably everyone will get over it, and the paperwork stuff will be a bit of a hassle but then it will be done with, and one day it will be an interesting story.

4. One exception: if the name is a family name. In that case, the repercussions of changing it are too hurtful to the family member to be outweighed by a dissatisfied feeling with the name, and better to find a nickname you like and use that instead.

So in your case, according to me, you may not change your daughter’s middle name. And Anna Suzanne doesn’t really work anyway (because of the repeating “ann” segment), even if there wasn’t the issue of your cousin planning to use the name, or of your husband not liking the name.

However, you MAY move your daughter’s middle name into the first name slot. Not only is it a family name, but Anna or Annie would be a fine nickname for it. And unlike the name Anna, where you didn’t even know it was your great-grandmother’s name and perhaps didn’t know your great-grandmother either, the name Suzanne has an actual family association for you.

And you also may choose a new first name. If the repeating “ann” segment DOESN’T bother you (it bothers me a little, but not enough to be a total dealbreaker if I loved the first name and had to use the middle name), maybe you would like other Ann-based first names such as Annika, Annabel, Anya, Anneliese. Annabel in particular is a nice alternative to Isabella (the most popular girl name in the United States), and Annabel Suzanne puts some distance between the two “ann” sounds.

But reading your email, it sounds like it might be better to keep the name as it is. If you had another name you LOVED and felt it fit your daughter exactly, it would be different. I’m worried in part about your husband here: it sounds like he’s only willing to change the name to keep you from being miserable about it, but I don’t feel confident that changing the name will help with that, if even now that she’s here in front of you there isn’t a name that feels right. And there’s no net benefit to changing the name to one that makes you happy and him miserable.

Would it help at all to know that the name Evelyn, as we’ve discussed, has a good chance of joining the top ten soon? It’s a name people are thinking of very positively. (This sort of thing doesn’t help everyone but it does help me: when I was considering Henry for my fifthborn, I was very swayed by the number of people who DIDN’T say, as I’d feared they might, that it was an old-man name.)

And if you’re not as fond of the nickname Evy as you’d hoped, would you like Linny (or Linnie or Lynnie) better? I love the light and feminine sound of that name. I can just picture holding a little baby girl and calling her Linnie.

Baby Girl Winters

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Sara writes:

We’re expecting our first child, a girl, on Jan 1, 2011! The name conversation has been a battle right from the very beginning, with both of us falling in and out of love with different names, but never agreeing on any. We’ve both had lots of ideas, but there’s been no overlap at all…please help!!!

I’m a Sara, and there were always 2-3 Sara(h)s in every class I was in growing up. I’m not keen on common names as a result. I suppose, like most of the people who write to you, we’re looking for something that is not overly common, not made-up or spelled ‘creatively’, and not overly trendy sounding. We both like unisex names, and he especially tends not to like girly names. He loves names that sound like boyish nicknames. I don’t mind if she has a nickname, but want her to have a proper name for when she grows up. Also, the names I like don’t really fit any particular style, but rather tend to be soft sounding, with lots of vowels and no harsh consonants.

Her middle name will be Agnes, for a dearly loved great aunt, and her last name will be Winters.

Names I like:
Esra (my all-time fav girl name. he hates it, says it’s too weird.)
Naomi
Marlow (my #1, since Esra is out of the running. nn Molly, would that work? don’t like Marly)
Esme (he hates this one the least, lol)
Arianna
Eithne

Names he likes:
Sasha
Corwin
Tamsin
Nico (his #1)
Anika
Luca

We’ve been through hundreds of names, and he doesn’t like any of the ones I like. And I don’t really like any of his suggestions, although I do like Nico as a nickname for something that isn’t a variant of Nicole.

A few ideas I’ve considered to try to meld his liking of short, boyish nicknames with my wish for a proper but not too girly name:

Nikita, nn Nico
Anika, nn Nico
Micah, nn Miki
Larkin, nn Lark

I don’t really love any of them. The full names all sound a bit harsh to me, with the hard consonants. For some reason those same sounds in the nicknames don’t bother me.

I’m at a total loss…I’d welcome any suggestions at all!!!

Because I tend to avoid initials that spell things, I would probably avoid names that started with C, J, L, P, R, and S.

A good exercise for finding names, especially with a first child, is to think about what names you might want to use for future children of the opposite sex. This can prevent problems with choosing a name for a girl and then finding later on that it’s too close to your favorite boy names. (We had this with our firstborn: his name, as it turned out, completely eliminates one of my favorite girl names.)

My first suggestion is Georgia. Georgia Winters is wonderful, and Georgia is a boyish name without being at all a boy’s name. Georgie is such a cute nickname, as is George, as is Gigi.

You wouldn’t want to consider Agnes as the first name, would you? It’s uncommon, non-girly, and sounds wonderful with your surname.

I’m going to turn this one over to the readers, because I find I’m completely stymied!

Name update! Sara writes:

We went over all the comments your readers submitted several times, but still couldn’t agree. We each whittled our lists down to our top 3 and decided not to think about it anymore until she arrived.

Which she did on January 11 – the birthday of my great aunt Agnes, whose name we had already decided we would use for her middle name! Once she was born it seemed obvious to both of us that her name was Marlo. Since the name was one of my choices, we went with the spelling that my partner preferred (no W on the end). The names don’t really go together, but they’re perfect for her :)

Many thanks to you and your readers, the suggestions were all beautiful :)

Baby Twin Boys L-M, Brothers to Maxine

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Stephanie writes:

I am expecting twin boys right after January 1st ish and hopefully not sooner! We have one name picked out, but are having a really tough time with the 2nd. We have one daughter already and her name is Maxine Ruth. Our last name is hyphenated (L-M) and the first last name is three syllables and is French, the second last name is one syllable. Any middle name needs to be Hebrew/Jewish because it also serves as the Hebrew name for our children. So Maxine’s Hebrew name is Ruth. Right now we agree on Theodore Rahm for Baby Boy 1. Incidentally, that was the only name we agreed upon when I was pregnant with our daughter. Finally, we would like to honor a dear uncle that has passed and his name was Thomas. But I don’t want a Teddy and a Tommy…..

Some names that we like, but just are not sure about are:
Elias
Elliot
Gideon
Ira
Simon

We like older, classic names. Simon is my favorite, but my husband thinks that they will get “Chipmunk” jokes…Alvin, Simon and Theodore. My husband really likes Elias, but Eli is so popular right now and I don’t love popular. I also like Samuel, but a cousin has a Samuel, though we are not that close.

Teom might be a good middle name b/c is it Hebrew for twins and Thomas means twins in aramaic. So that would allow us to honor Uncle Thomas, but what first name goes with Teom???

HELP!

Teom definitely seems like the perfect solution. I had to look it up to see how it was pronounced, and it’s teh-OHM. I think that sounds good with all the names on your list.

Simon is my own favorite. I think your husband might be right about the chipmunk thing, but for me it wouldn’t rule the name out completely—just a single mark in the “against” column. If I heard of twins named Simon and Theodore, it would come to mind; if I heard it in the other order, Theodore and Simon, I think I would think briefly that something sounded familiar about that, but not make the connection. Hm. Actually, the longer I think about it, the bigger a problem it seems like. Well, I like Elias a lot, too, but since you’re having reservations about it, maybe we can see what happens if we rule out both your top choice and his top choice.

Of the remaining possibilities, my favorite is Elliot. I like the way it sounds with Theodore. But Gideon is a close second, and I prefer the way it sounds with Teom, since it doesn’t have the problem of a repeating T sound.

I’m hesitant to add to your list because I think you have so many good options already, but I also like Everett and Frederick. Frederick is probably out because of Teddy and Freddy, but the full names are so good together, and I do deep-down enjoy some fun twinniness in twin names. Well, I also like Franklin, and Teddy and Frankie is cute without rhyming.