Help! Our baby girl is due a few weeks. We still haven’t found a name we can settle on. I want to follow the same grammar and syllable style as other kids but don’t want anything too popular. We want a name that begins and ends with a constant (non vowel) and a one syllable middle name. Our children are [name_f]Lillian[/name_f] [name_f]Claire[/name_f] and [name_m]Samuel[/name_m] [name_m]Brooks[/name_m]. A few options we have tossed around are: [name_u]River[/name_u] [name_f]Cate[/name_f] (but [name_u]River[/name_u] doesn’t seem classy enough and [name_f]Cate[/name_f] is over used). Other name combos we liked were [name_f]Caroline[/name_f] [name_u]Sage[/name_u] and [name_f]Laurel[/name_f] [name_u]Evan[/name_u]. We also like [name_f]Hannah[/name_f], [name_f]Lorelei[/name_f], and [name_f]Lauren[/name_f] for first names. Middle names we like are [name_f]Rayne[/name_f], [name_f]Carys[/name_f], [name_u]Sage[/name_u], [name_u]Evan[/name_u], [name_u]Aspen[/name_u]. Please help us come up with a combo or suggest a name for us. Thanks!
As far as matching with the style of her siblings’ names, I think Caroline Sage works best with Lillian Claire and Samuel Brooks. Laurel Evan is pretty, but you have such classic names for your first two that I’d stick to that theme with the next one, too! Laurel is kind of midcentury-modern…it peaked in the 1950’s and 60’s and is currently on ranked at #817…much rarer than her siblings’ classic names.
Lorelei is my favorite of your possible first names but because it’s not exactly classic and it’s much more rare (#479) than Lillian (#25) or Samuel (#23), I’m not sure it really suits her siblings’ names as well as Hannah or Caroline. (Lauren feels like an 80’s or 90’s name to me, so not exactly classic.) Hannah has the same classic-and-always-popular feel as Samuel and Lillian. All three were in the top 30 in the US last year…actually they were all 3 in the 20’s, so very close popularity-wise!
As for middle names, Hannah Aspen might run together a little (same sound at the end of Hannah and beginning of Aspen) but any of the others you mention here would work: Hannah Rayne, Hannah Carys, Hannah Sage, or Hannah Evan. None of these middles are quite as classic (at least in the US) as your other kids’ middles, but I think Hannah Rayne sounds really nice together. As a stand-alone, Carys is probably my favorite of your middle options.
So my vote would be Caroline Sage or Hannah Rayne. Both have classic first names to match your first two, but with non-traditional middles to suit your not wanting anything too popular.
Hope this helps!
I think you pretty much already decided on [name_f]Caroline[/name_f] [name_u]Sage[/name_u]. But I’ll just suggest [name_f]Valerie[/name_f] [name_u]Eden[/name_u] just in case.
[name_f]Lorelai[/name_f] [name_f]Rayne[/name_f]
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f] [name_f]Carys[/name_f]