Sibling for Logan Michael

General Name Discussion
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My husband and I are starting to try for baby #2 (we have a son named [name]Logan[/name] [name]Michael[/name]), and we have recently started discussing names.
Our original plan was to use family names as middle names ([name]Michael[/name] is a cousin of mine who died when I was a teen), but now we are not so sure we want to continue that trend.

Here are the other names that we were thinking of when I was pregnant for [name]Logan[/name]:
[name]Reid[/name] [name]Christopher[/name] (after my dad)
[name]Reid[/name] [name]Frederick[/name] (after DH’s grandpa)
[name]Veronica[/name] [name]Carole[/name] (after my mom)
[name]Jocelyne[/name] [name]Maureen[/name] (after DH’s mom)

We have since thought of some other names that we love.
For boys we now also like the name [name]Dashiell[/name]. If we were to continue with the family name trend, then I would want [name]Dashiell[/name] [name]John[/name] (DH’s dad). DH doesn’t like that too much, because his name is [name]Jonathan[/name], nn [name]Jon[/name] and he thinks there would be confusion.
We both agree that [name]Dashiell[/name] [name]Reid[/name] actually sounds really nice, but then, we would not be able to use [name]Reid[/name] as a first name later.

For girls, we still like [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Carole[/name] (I love this, DH likes it well enough). But we both feel that [name]Jocelyne[/name] [name]Maureen[/name] just doesn’t sound right. We have since decided that we love the name [name]Claire[/name]. I think that [name]Claire[/name] [name]Maureen[/name] sounds nice, but DH is not convinced. Once again, we think that [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Claire[/name] sounds great, but then we could not use [name]Claire[/name] as a first name later.

We are planning on having 3-4 children. So what I need is to either:

  1. Find middle names that go well with [name]Dashiell[/name], [name]Reid[/name], [name]Veronica[/name], and [name]Claire[/name]
    OR
  2. Decide to use [name]Dashiell[/name] [name]Reid[/name] and [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Claire[/name] and find at least one other first and middle name combo for each a boy and a girl that would go well with these names (and with [name]Logan[/name] [name]Michael[/name]).

Our last name is [name]Feeney[/name] (I love the name [name]Sophie[/name] for a girl as well, but [name]Sophie[/name] [name]Feeney[/name] just doesn’t work).

What do you all think of these name combinations, and do you have any suggestions for me?

Thanks.

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[name]Hi[/name]! I love [name]Dashiell[/name] [name]John[/name], as well as [name]Reid[/name], but to me, [name]Reid[/name] seems more in line with [name]Logan[/name]'s style. Oh! [name]Reid[/name] and [name]Feeney[/name] begin with the same eeee sound, and I think a first name without the eee sound would sound great with your last name.

I love [name]Veronica[/name] so much! I love [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Feeney[/name]! :slight_smile: Because you’re not happy with [name]Jocelyne[/name] paired with [name]Maureen[/name] (they have the same ending sound), I thought I’d suggest flipping the middles ([name]Veronica[/name] [name]Carole[/name]/[name]Claire[/name] sound really K heavy to me) to reach [name]Jocelyne[/name] [name]Carole[/name] and [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Maureen[/name].

I love [name]Claire[/name], by the way!

Middles:

[name]Veronica[/name] [name]Belle[/name]
[name]Veronica[/name] [name]Blythe[/name]
[name]Veronica[/name] [name]Laurel[/name]
[name]Veronica[/name] [name]May[/name]
[name]Veronica[/name] [name]Pearl[/name]
[name]Veronica[/name] [name]Violet[/name] (I love [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Violet[/name] [name]Feeney[/name]!) :slight_smile:

[name]Claire[/name] [name]Juliette[/name]
[name]Claire[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name]
[name]Claire[/name] [name]Victoria[/name]

[name]Reid[/name] [name]Alexander[/name]
[name]Reid[/name] [name]Benjamin[/name]
[name]Reid[/name] [name]Gabriel[/name]
[name]Reid[/name] [name]Nathaniel[/name]
[name]Reid[/name] [name]William[/name]

More you may like with [name]Logan[/name]:

[name]Everett[/name]
[name]Grant[/name]
[name]Harrison[/name]
[name]Miles[/name]
[name]Wyatt[/name]

Names closer to [name]Dashiell[/name]'s style that I can see with [name]Logan[/name]:

[name]Alexander[/name]
[name]Charles[/name]
[name]Daniel[/name]
[name]Edward[/name]
[name]Elliot[/name]
[name]Gabriel[/name]
[name]Jude[/name] (short like [name]Reid[/name], with the same ending sound)
[name]Maxwell[/name]
[name]Nathaniel[/name]
[name]Samuel[/name]
[name]William[/name]

Names that remind me of [name]Veronica[/name] or [name]Claire[/name]:

[name]Annabel[/name]
[name]Abigail[/name]
[name]Charlotte[/name]
[name]Clara[/name]
[name]Diana[/name]
[name]Eliza[/name]
[name]Elizabeth[/name]
[name]Julia[/name]
[name]Miranda[/name]
[name]Susannah[/name]
[name]Tabitha[/name]
[name]Victoria[/name]

Good luck! :slight_smile:

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Wow, thanks for all the options [name]Jill[/name].

I love [name]Claire[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name], and my husband and I did discuss this. The problem is that I know my brother wants to one day name a daughter [name]Elizabeth[/name], so I don’t think it would be nice of me to use this name, even in the middle.

I really love [name]Reid[/name] [name]Alexander[/name]. I will run this by my husband. I also really liked your suggestions of [name]Everett[/name] and [name]Harrison[/name]. I love the name [name]Wyatt[/name], but I had run this past DH before and he thinks it just sounds like a noise and not a name.

I was worried about the long eeee in both [name]Reid[/name] and [name]Feeney[/name], but the more I say the name out loud, the less it bothers me. I think it is because [name]Reid[/name] is one syllable and [name]Feeney[/name] is two that I feel it can work.

We had discussed changing around the middle names for [name]Veronica[/name] and [name]Jocelyne[/name], but here is my issue with that (this may sound weird, but here goes):
I am French Canadian, and our children will all be going to French schools. We have no problem with using English names, but some of the names that we like are French (or very popular in French right now). [name]Carole[/name] is obviously a French name, and [name]Jocelyne[/name] (spelled with the E at the end) is quite popular here in French. So if I feel that [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Carole[/name] and Joceylne [name]Maureen[/name] are good mixtures of the French and the English names, and that [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Maureen[/name] and Joceylne [name]Carole[/name] would just end up being one very English name and one very French name.
I should also mention that I don’t particularly like the name [name]Maureen[/name], but DH says that if we use [name]Carole[/name] for one daughter and then we have another, we are using [name]Maureen[/name]. This is part of the reason that we are thinking of losing the family middle names.

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I like [name]Dashiell[/name] [name]John[/name] & [name]Claire[/name] [name]Maureen[/name]

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Wow, thanks for all the options [name]Jill[/name].

I love [name]Claire[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name], and my husband and I did discuss this. The problem is that I know my brother wants to one day name a daughter [name]Elizabeth[/name], so I don’t think it would be nice of me to use this name, even in the middle.

I really love [name]Reid[/name] [name]Alexander[/name]. I will run this by my husband. I also really liked your suggestions of [name]Everett[/name] and [name]Harrison[/name]. I love the name [name]Wyatt[/name], but I had run this past DH before and he thinks it just sounds like a noise and not a name.

I was worried about the long eeee in both [name]Reid[/name] and [name]Feeney[/name], but the more I say the name out loud, the less it bothers me. I think it is because [name]Reid[/name] is one syllable and [name]Feeney[/name] is two that I feel it can work.

We had discussed changing around the middle names for [name]Veronica[/name] and [name]Jocelyne[/name], but here is my issue with that (this may sound weird, but here goes):
I am French Canadian, and our children will all be going to French schools. We have no problem with using English names, but some of the names that we like are French (or very popular in French right now). [name]Carole[/name] is obviously a French name, and [name]Jocelyne[/name] (spelled with the E at the end) is quite popular here in French. So if I feel that [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Carole[/name] and Joceylne [name]Maureen[/name] are good mixtures of the French and the English names, and that [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Maureen[/name] and Joceylne [name]Carole[/name] would just end up being one very English name and one very French name.
I should also mention that I don’t particularly like the name [name]Maureen[/name], but DH says that if we use [name]Carole[/name] for one daughter and then we have another, we are using [name]Maureen[/name]. This is part of the reason that we are thinking of losing the family middle names.[/quote]

[name]Hi[/name]! I’m glad you found some possiblities! I love the names you mentioned above. :slight_smile: That’s so sweet of you to let your brother have [name]Elizabeth[/name]! :slight_smile: Another [name]Claire[/name] name you may like is [name]Claire[/name] [name]Alexandra[/name] [name]Feeney[/name].

I completely understand your reasoning regarding the middle names. (I think I may have misspelled [name]Jocelyne[/name], so I’m sorry about that!) :slight_smile: I think it’s great that you’ll be using middles with meaning. [name]Every[/name] [name]Carole[/name] I’ve ever known has been wonderful, so I smiled when I saw the name on your list. :slight_smile:

I hope your husband likes some of the new names!

Take care! :slight_smile:

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Boys…
[name]Lucas[/name] [name]Reid[/name]
[name]Lucas[/name] [name]Christopher[/name]
[name]Ryland[/name] [name]Christopher[/name]
[name]James[/name] [name]Frederick[/name]
[name]Nathan[/name] [name]Frederick[/name]
[name]Hayden[/name] [name]Frederick[/name]

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I think it’s great to use family middle names. The only problem is if you honor one mom, you have to honor another, and so on and so on. The Jewish tradition is to never name a child after somebody living (one theory is that there was a superstition that if death came calling for the older namesake, you didn’t want him to get confused with the baby!) I think that tradition eliminates the problems of getting trapped in family names.

For more middles you could consider people you admire. For example, if you are using an English first name, perhaps pair it with a notable French author middle name and vice versa.

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And I love [name]Veronica[/name]. There was a tv show [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Mars[/name] and she was the sassiest girl!

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[name]Hi[/name] [name]Jill[/name],

I don’t think you spelled [name]Jocelyne[/name] wrong, I’ve noticed that it seems to be commonly spelled as [name]Jocelyn[/name] and I was just trying to emphasizes the E to help make my (crazy) point about a too French first and middle name together.
Since we introduced [name]Claire[/name] to the list, though, DH has cooled to the idea of [name]Jocelyne[/name]. Though I was thinking of [name]Claire[/name] [name]Jocelyne[/name], but that sounds too French again.

We have added [name]Dashiell[/name] [name]Edward[/name] as an option now, and we are keeping [name]Reid[/name] [name]Alexander[/name] in mind.

Thanks for all the help.

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Thanks for the suggestions. I really like the name [name]Lucas[/name], adn [name]Lucas[/name] [name]Reid[/name] sound really good, but we want to avoid another L name.
[name]Ryland[/name] is very interesting. I like it a lot, the only problem is my brother’s name is [name]Ryan[/name] [name]Christopher[/name], and that is just too close (PS. DH and I had agreed a long time ago that [name]Ryan[/name] would have been a great name had it not been my brother’s name).

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I think we are trying to pull away from the family names as middle names now.
I think I really wanted to do that because I always hated my middle name, and I figured that if someone’s middle name is after someone that they love, then even if they don’t like it, they can appreciate it. But we just find that it is really limiting what we can name our children.

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I’m so happy that there has been a good response to [name]Veronica[/name]. I have always loved this name, and I was worried that people would think I had named her after the character in the [name]Archie[/name] comics. But so far, anyone I have mentionned this name to just loves it.

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I really like [name]Veronica[/name]!

[name]Veronica[/name] [name]Louise[/name]
[name]Veronica[/name] [name]Mae[/name]
[name]Veronica[/name] [name]Lucille[/name]
(ideas)

Also, would you consider [name]Victoria[/name] as a FN? Or is it too close to [name]Veronica[/name]?

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Thanks for the ideas. I like [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Louise[/name], though it made me laugh because my husband always says “geeze [name]Louise[/name]” and I always reply “don’t call me [name]Louise[/name]”.

I don’t particularly like the name [name]Victoria[/name].

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Okay, so we have decided that [name]Veronica[/name] and [name]Reid[/name] are still our top choices for a girl and boy (we still love [name]Dashiell[/name] and [name]Claire[/name], but not for the next child). Our problem with [name]Veronica[/name] and [name]Reid[/name] is middle names. If we are not going to use family names (and I think that we are deciding that we will not), I really don’t know what names would be good as middle names.

I really liked an earlier suggestion of [name]Reid[/name] [name]Alexander[/name], but my husband is not sold on it. I also like [name]Reid[/name] [name]Andrew[/name], but [name]Andrew[/name] is a family name (though not of a close relative).

I was also considering [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Paige[/name], but I don’t know if DH agrees.

Can anyone offer me any suggestions?

Thanks.

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I still like [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Claire[/name] OR [name]Claire[/name] [name]Veronica[/name]!
For a boy, I like [name]Reid[/name] [name]Donovan[/name]. WDYT?

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I’m not too fond of [name]Donovan[/name], but I really love the idea of a three syllable middle name for [name]Reid[/name].

I also really love how both [name]Veronica[/name] [name]Claire[/name] and [name]Claire[/name] [name]Veronica[/name] sound. I just really don’t want to use both names for one daughter. I think I will use one of these combinations if I get to my last child and haven’t had a girl yet.