Brother to Flannery Katherine

[tomaura226]

See the results of this poll: Brother to Flannery (g)

Respondents: 58 (This poll is closed)

• Booker : 14 (24%)
• Pryor : 6 (10%)
• Everhart “Hart” : 19 (33%)
• Banyan : 4 (7%)
• Fenwick : 7 (12%)
• Shiloh: 8 (14%)

[ashthedreamer]

[name_u]Flannery[/name_u] [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] is gorgeous!

I love the idea of [name_m]Everhart[/name_m] “[name_m]Hart[/name_m]” as her little brother. [name_u]Flannery[/name_u] and [name_m]Everhart[/name_m] is adorable! Fenwick is cool, too, and I think [name_u]Flannery[/name_u] and Fenwick sound adorable together, and work together well, but I hesitate to use alliteration like that, and with “F” being a more unusual letter, it seems even more noticeable.

[southern.maple]

I voted for [name_m]Everhart[/name_m]. I found it to be the most intriguing of your options, and I love the nickname [name_m]Hart[/name_m].

[tomaura226]

I really like Fenwick (nn Fen) but I too worry about having another F name.

[hausclan]

I vote for Fenwick, I think its adorable with [name_u]Flannery[/name_u]. Very cute combination!

[emsky]

I like [name_m]Everhart[/name_m] “[name_m]Hart[/name_m]” and [name_m]Booker[/name_m] best with [name_u]Flannery[/name_u].

[emsky]

[name_m]Booker[/name_m] got my vote!

[psg007]

I voted for [name_m]Everhart[/name_m] - handsome, distinguished and goes so well with [name_u]Flannery[/name_u]. [name_u]Love[/name_u] the nn [name_m]Hart[/name_m] too!

[name_m]Booker[/name_m] - rhymes with bad words and sounds too surnamey
[name_m]Pryor[/name_m] - too wordy
[name_m]Banyan[/name_m] - not a fan, just not a nice sound
Fenwick - makes me think of Fenway [name_m]Park[/name_m]; which may actually be kind of a cool association depending where you live
[name_u]Shiloh[/name_u] - makes me think of Brangelina, sorry!

[Florimell]

[name_u]Flannery[/name_u] is so rare and obscure that I think [name_m]Everhart[/name_m] is the most appropriate option. There’s nothing wrong with the other options, but I feel that they lack the elegance that [name_u]Flannery[/name_u] and [name_m]Everhart[/name_m] possess.

[jesslyn]

@tfzolghadr

I voted for [name_m]Booker[/name_m], but it completely depends on your surname.
[name_m]Booker[/name_m]- Assuming you’re American, it gives him the great historical tie of [name_m]Booker[/name_m] T. [name_m]Washington[/name_m] (to match [name_u]Flannery[/name_u]'s literary ties). It’s also on trend as it’s occupational and ends with an -er, while clearly masculine and not overused.
[name_m]Pryor[/name_m]- I feel like I’d really need to know the surname, as this wouldn’t work with many nouny surnames. I can also see people always mispronouncing it as “[name_m]Prior[/name_m]”, or asking his name again and again. With [name_m]Booker[/name_m], you have a famous namesake… and the other person looks stupid if they don’t know. With [name_m]Pryor[/name_m], I feel like it would be harder to explain except “[name_m]Prior[/name_m] with a y, not an i”.
[name_m]Everhart[/name_m] “[name_m]Hart[/name_m]”- Part of me likes this, and part of me doesn’t. I actually like [name_m]Hart[/name_m]… plain [name_m]Hart[/name_m]… better than [name_m]Everhart[/name_m]. I actually named a student (I teach in [name_f]China[/name_f]) [name_m]Hart[/name_m]. Great name. [name_u]Ever[/name_u]- just seems too trendy. You’re getting girls named [name_u]Ever[/name_u], [name_m]Everley[/name_m], Everlynn, etc. It’s trendy, and I might have actually guessed he was a girl based on the [name_u]Ever[/name_u]- trend. Moreover, I think you might get a lot of people pronouncing this strangely. I’d test it out (pretend it’s your husband’s name for a day) before using it.
[name_m]Banyan[/name_m]- Not a nice sound, imho. It also makes me think of bunions.
Fenwick- Meh, it’s ok. I feel it’s too close to [name_u]Flannery[/name_u]. Plus, it leads to the overly common nickname of [name_u]Finn[/name_u]. One of the biggest mistakes I made was letting my husband call my daughter [name_f]Emi[/name_f]. Now, I know she’ll be responding every time an [name_f]Emily[/name_f], [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Emilia[/name_f], [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f], etc. is called [name_f]Emi[/name_f]. So, I would actually say Fenwick is better than [name_u]Finn[/name_u]… but I’m not a fan.
[name_u]Shiloh[/name_u]- I’ve known soooo many girls (and dogs… sorry) with this name. I can’t really see it on a boy. When paired with [name_u]Flannery[/name_u], I’d think they were both girls.

I started typing out a response and then read this one and it had already said EVERYTHING I was thinking. [name_m]Just[/name_m] pretend all of this was said twice.

[WhiteGardenia]

I [name_u]LOVE[/name_u] [name_m]Booker[/name_m]! It’s handsome, masculine, and uncommon.

[memphismanda]

My two favorites are Fenwick and [name_m]Everhart[/name_m]… I think they’d both sound wonderful with [name_u]Flannery[/name_u]

[tomaura226]

Wow! Thanks for the feedback. We’re leaning pretty strongly towards [name_m]Booker[/name_m] at the moment. Because [name_u]Flannery[/name_u] is somewhat unisex, we wanted our boy name to stand out as clearly masculine (even though we tend to actually like softer names). I like the connection to [name_m]Booker[/name_m] T. [name_m]Washington[/name_m] as well. Tuskegee is actually not far from where I grew up. It shouldn’t be a problem with his surname (sounds a bit like [name_f]Dee[/name_f]-Boyle).

@tfzolghadr

I voted for [name_m]Booker[/name_m], but it completely depends on your surname.
[name_m]Booker[/name_m]- Assuming you’re American, it gives him the great historical tie of [name_m]Booker[/name_m] T. [name_m]Washington[/name_m] (to match [name_u]Flannery[/name_u]'s literary ties). It’s also on trend as it’s occupational and ends with an -er, while clearly masculine and not overused.
[name_m]Pryor[/name_m]- I feel like I’d really need to know the surname, as this wouldn’t work with many nouny surnames. I can also see people always mispronouncing it as “[name_m]Prior[/name_m]”, or asking his name again and again. With [name_m]Booker[/name_m], you have a famous namesake… and the other person looks stupid if they don’t know. With [name_m]Pryor[/name_m], I feel like it would be harder to explain except “[name_m]Prior[/name_m] with a y, not an i”.
[name_m]Everhart[/name_m] “[name_m]Hart[/name_m]”- Part of me likes this, and part of me doesn’t. I actually like [name_m]Hart[/name_m]… plain [name_m]Hart[/name_m]… better than [name_m]Everhart[/name_m]. I actually named a student (I teach in [name_f]China[/name_f]) [name_m]Hart[/name_m]. Great name. [name_u]Ever[/name_u]- just seems too trendy. You’re getting girls named [name_u]Ever[/name_u], [name_m]Everley[/name_m], Everlynn, etc. It’s trendy, and I might have actually guessed he was a girl based on the [name_u]Ever[/name_u]- trend. Moreover, I think you might get a lot of people pronouncing this strangely. I’d test it out (pretend it’s your husband’s name for a day) before using it.
[name_m]Banyan[/name_m]- Not a nice sound, imho. It also makes me think of bunions.
Fenwick- Meh, it’s ok. I feel it’s too close to [name_u]Flannery[/name_u]. Plus, it leads to the overly common nickname of [name_u]Finn[/name_u]. One of the biggest mistakes I made was letting my husband call my daughter [name_f]Emi[/name_f]. Now, I know she’ll be responding every time an [name_f]Emily[/name_f], [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Emilia[/name_f], [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f], etc. is called [name_f]Emi[/name_f]. So, I would actually say Fenwick is better than [name_u]Finn[/name_u]… but I’m not a fan.
[name_u]Shiloh[/name_u]- I’ve known soooo many girls (and dogs… sorry) with this name. I can’t really see it on a boy. When paired with [name_u]Flannery[/name_u], I’d think they were both girls.

[bellerose]

[name_u]Love[/name_u] [name_m]Booker[/name_m]! It sounds great with [name_u]Flannery[/name_u]!