Zoe Evelyn or Sydney Evelyn?

Well, i love [name]Zoe[/name], but my husband likes [name]Sydney[/name] better. Some background, middle name is for our grandmothers. His grandfathers name was [name]Sidney[/name], so that would be to honor him. Our last name is VERY jewish sounding, lets say something like Grossberg. My fear is that [name]Sydney[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] Grossberg would sound like an old jewish couple! Like [name]Sidney[/name] and [name]Evelyn[/name] Grossberg. I feel like the cuteness of [name]Zoe[/name] balances it out. We can’t really agree on this, am I being too hard on the [name]Sydney[/name] name?

[name]Zoe[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] Grossberg
[name]Sydney[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] Grossberg

I still find [name]Sidney[/name] very much a boys name, so seeing [name]Sydney[/name] on a little girl does nothing for me. I know you want to honour family and that’s great but [name]Sidney[/name]/[name]Sydney[/name] on girl would be better as a middle name. [name]Evelyn[/name] [name]Sidney[/name] would be cute!

[name]Zoe[/name] gets my vote because it’s a well known girl’s name, and sounds nice with [name]Evelyn[/name].

I too think of [name]Sidney[/name] as a boy’s name, so by default I’d go with [name]Zoe[/name].

[name]Love[/name] [name]Zoe[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name]! While I like [name]Sydney[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] and have no problem with [name]Sydney[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] Grossberg, and I don’t get the whole “old Jewish couple”, haha, I just like [name]Zoe[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] Grossberg as a combo a lot more. It’s so charming. :slight_smile:

[name]Zoe[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] is lovely! [name]Sydney[/name] is a name that I don’t have strong feelings about either way. I like that it’s a family name though. [name]Zoe[/name] [name]Sydney[/name]?

I much prefer [name]Zoe[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name].

I like [name]Zoe[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] the most. I think [name]Zoe[/name] is prettier than [name]Sydney[/name].

Thanks everyone, I definitely prefer [name]Zoe[/name] too. Hopefully I can get hubby on board!!

I like [name]Zoe[/name] a lot more, [name]Sydney[/name] is cute but just ok. I also know dogs names [name]Sydney[/name] so that doesn’t help :stuck_out_tongue:

I love [name]Zoe[/name]!

I like [name]Evelyn[/name] much I would use it as a fn and [name]Zoe[/name] as the middle