Sibling for Whitman Oliver

We are due with #2 in [name_f]September[/name_f] and are having trouble finding a sibling for [name_m]Whitman[/name_m] [name_m]Oliver[/name_m] ([name_u]Whit[/name_u]). We have some girls names that we’ve considered but don’t 100% agree on Talulah, [name_f]Amelie[/name_f], and [name_u]Eliot[/name_u]. We are no where with boy names.

We prefer something less common and bonus points if there is a literary connection.

Of your girls names listed, I think my favorite is [name_u]Eliot[/name_u] though I prefer it with two L’s.

Names with a literary connect are lots of fun. As for names for a brother of [name_m]Whitman[/name_m], I like:

[name_m]Wilde[/name_m]
[name_m]Chandler[/name_m]
[name_m]Clemens[/name_m]
[name_m]Beckett[/name_m]
[name_m]Atticus[/name_m]
[name_m]Larsson[/name_m]
[name_m]Holmes[/name_m]

For a sister, I might consider:

[name_f]Beatrix[/name_f]
[name_f]Marilla[/name_f]
[name_f]India[/name_f]
[name_f]Ursula[/name_f]

I love Whit!

Whitman & ________:

G:
Emmeline
Evangeline
Lyra
Daisy
Cordelia
Ramona “Romy”
Cecily
Bronwyn
Daphne
Jessamine “Minnie”
Elspeth
Octavia
Olympia
Alice
Anaïs
Brontë
Beatrice
Elowen
Arwen
Kairi “Kai”
Bellamy
Katniss
Primrose
Hermione
Temperance
Ginny
Poppy
Amity
Marlise
Verity
Delta
Etta
Imogen
Aurelia “Goldie”
Ariadne
Zeta
Seraphina*
Blythe*
Isadora
Elora*
Calliope
Calista
Freya
Elula
Luella
Carys
Danica
Pheonix “finn”
Leonie
Luciana “Lux”
Persephone “percy”
Sidonie “Sidda”
Sybil"Billie"
Vita
Brighton
Leighton
Ansley
Sonnet “Sonny”
Tatum
Farrah

B:
Alcott
Ambrose
Sheldon
Kipling “Kip”
Digby
Dashiell “Dash”
Dexter
Errol
Leander
Barrett “Rhett”
Ignatius “Iggy”
Hawkins/Hawthorn “Hawk”
Beckett
Calloway “Cal”
Dorian
Franklin
Valor
Gatsby
Heathcliff “Heath”
Huxley “Huck”
Keaton “Keats”
Ezra
Tennyson
Gulliver
Abner
August/Augustin/Angus “Gus”
Asa
Magnus
Slyvester
Lucian
Archer “Archie”
Garrick
Ellis
Calvin
Boone
Quaide*
Cormac*“Mac”
Desmond
Wrigley*
Thatcher
Lennox
Wallace*"Wally "
Wessex “Wes”
Phoenix
Finnick
Cato
Calix
Deveraux*
Gable*“Gabe”
Brooks
Remington*“Remy”
Channing
Sterling
Gunner
Abner
Kiefer
Wilder
Amos
Cassius*“cash” (cash-us)
Davis
Hayes
Thaddeus “Thad”
Titus
Otis
Lowell “Wells”
Hewitt “Hugh”
Merritt
Bodhi
Evander “Van”

[name_f]Daphne[/name_f]
[name_u]Hadley[/name_u]
[name_f]Edith[/name_f]
[name_u]Evelyn[/name_u]
[name_u]Brett[/name_u]
[name_f]Bronte[/name_f]
[name_f]Nora[/name_f]
[name_u]Darcy[/name_u]
[name_u]Barrett[/name_u]
[name_u]Flannery[/name_u]
[name_f]Bryony[/name_f]
[name_u]Vivian[/name_u]
[name_u]Dylan[/name_u]
Percy
Marlowe
Zelda
Scarlett
Pearl

[name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m]
[name_u]August[/name_u]

I like pp’s suggestions of [name_m]Quaide[/name_m]/[name_m]Quade[/name_m], [name_m]Gable[/name_m], [name_m]Hayes[/name_m], [name_m]Davis[/name_m] and [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] although there were so many good ideas in there! For a sister I really like [name_f]Amelie[/name_f], [name_f]Aurelia[/name_f], [name_f]Carys[/name_f], [name_f]Daphne[/name_f] and [name_f]Scarlett[/name_f].

I love [name_m]Whitman[/name_m] [name_m]Oliver[/name_m], so handsome!

I like Talulah of your options so far. I feel [name_f]Amelie[/name_f] is too common to be sister to [name_m]Whitman[/name_m], and whilst I don’t mind [name_u]Eliot[/name_u] on a girl I think [name_m]Whitman[/name_m]'s sister should have a more feminine name. I actually think Talulah [name_f]Amelie[/name_f] is a lovely combo :slight_smile:

[name_m]How[/name_m] about…

[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_u]Peyton[/name_u]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_u]Harper[/name_u]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_f]Scarlett[/name_f]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_u]Hadley[/name_u]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_u]Piper[/name_u]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_f]Athena[/name_f]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_f]Isadora[/name_f]

[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_u]Reid[/name_u]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_u]Sawyer[/name_u]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_u]Sinclair[/name_u]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_m]Crawford[/name_m]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_m]Montgomery[/name_m]
[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] & [name_u]Everett[/name_u]

I also think you should use a more traditional middle name, like you have with your son.

Best of luck!

For boys:

[name_m]Whitman[/name_m] [name_m]Oliver[/name_m] and…

Fordham
[name_m]Grantham[/name_m]
[name_m]Watson[/name_m]
[name_m]Woodrow[/name_m]
[name_u]Winslow[/name_u]
[name_m]Pierson[/name_m]
[name_m]Preston[/name_m]
[name_u]Spencer[/name_u]
[name_m]Chadwick[/name_m]

Middle name suggestions’’’’

[name_m]Alexander[/name_m]
[name_m]Arthur[/name_m]
[name_m]Edward[/name_m], [name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
[name_u]Elliot[/name_u]
[name_m]Atticus[/name_m]

To me [name_m]Whitman[/name_m] is very [name_m]New[/name_m] [name_f]England[/name_f] patrician in feel, so my inclination would be for a name in the same vein (if I know of a literary source I added it):

[name_f]Abigail[/name_f]
[name_f]Constance[/name_f] (one of [name_f]Sue[/name_f] [name_m]Barton[/name_m]'s best friends in the vintage YA series)
[name_f]Phoebe[/name_f] ([name_m]Holden[/name_m] Caulfield’s sister)
[name_f]Virginia[/name_f] ([name_m]Woolf[/name_m])
[name_f]Tabitha[/name_f] ([name_m]King[/name_m], Suzuma)
[name_f]Rebecca[/name_f] (of Sunnybrook Farm)
[name_f]Theodosia[/name_f]
[name_f]Isabel[/name_f] (from Portrait of a Lady, IIRC)

For a boy:

[name_m]Holden[/name_m] (Caulfield)
[name_m]Thoreau[/name_m] (nn [name_m]Thor[/name_m]?)
[name_u]Emerson[/name_u] ([name_m]Ralph[/name_m] [name_m]Waldo[/name_m])
[name_u]Alcott[/name_u] ([name_m]Bronson[/name_m])
[name_m]Brooks[/name_m] ([name_f]Geraldine[/name_f], [name_u]Max[/name_u], [name_u]Terry[/name_u])
[name_m]Adams[/name_m] (I think both Presidents [name_m]Adams[/name_m] also wrote)
[name_m]Lowell[/name_m] ([name_u]James[/name_u] [name_m]Russell[/name_m], [name_m]Robert[/name_m], [name_f]Amy[/name_f])

Good luck! :slight_smile:

[name_f]Agatha[/name_f]
[name_f]Odessa[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Portia[/name_f]

[name_m]Cedric[/name_m]
[name_u]Emerson[/name_u]
[name_m]Ivanhoe[/name_m]
Ollivander
[name_u]Sawyer[/name_u]

Thank you so much for all the great suggestions! I really like [name_m]Thatcher[/name_m], [name_m]Ezra[/name_m], [name_m]Brooks[/name_m], and [name_m]Davis[/name_m] for a boy, which is where we are really struggling to agree.

I think we’ve pretty much settled that a girl with be Talulah or [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] [name_f]Elise[/name_f], but who knows, we threw out all our names last time and [name_m]Whitman[/name_m] was nameless for 2 days!

[name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m] [name_m]Silas[/name_m], nn [name_m]Hawk[/name_m] for a boy. (refer to the American writer [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m] [name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m]).
[name_m]Emmerson[/name_m] [name_f]Bronte[/name_f], nn [name_f]Emmi[/name_f] for a girl.

Boy:
[name_u]Barrett[/name_u]
[name_m]Beckett[/name_m]
[name_m]Bennett[/name_m]
[name_u]Brayden[/name_u]
[name_m]Breccan[/name_m]
[name_m]Brock[/name_m]
[name_m]Calloway[/name_m]
[name_m]Cambell[/name_m]
[name_u]Carter[/name_u]
[name_m]Colton[/name_m]
[name_m]Conrad[/name_m]
[name_m]Davenport[/name_m]
Drayton
[name_u]Ellis[/name_u]
[name_m]Ferris[/name_m]
[name_m]Fitzgerald[/name_m]
[name_m]Grant[/name_m]
[name_m]Granville[/name_m]
[name_m]Grayson[/name_m]
[name_u]Hollis[/name_u]/Hollister
[name_m]Lawson[/name_m]
[name_m]Lincoln[/name_m]
[name_m]MacAllister[/name_m]
[name_m]Prescott[/name_m]
[name_u]Royce[/name_u]/[name_m]Royston[/name_m]
[name_m]Stanton[/name_m]
[name_m]Sutter[/name_m]
[name_m]Thayer[/name_m]
[name_u]Vernon[/name_u]

Girl:
[name_f]Azure[/name_f]
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Corrine[/name_f]
Danella
Elldyse
Espy
[name_u]Jensen[/name_u]
[name_u]Leighton[/name_u]
[name_u]Lennox[/name_u]
[name_u]Meredith[/name_u]
[name_f]Patience[/name_f]
[name_u]Presley[/name_u]
Serephina
[name_f]Sophronia[/name_f]
[name_u]Sterling[/name_u]
[name_u]Sutton[/name_u]