Birth Announcements this Week

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Names from our newspaper, siblings in brackets.

Jacob John Howard
Ella Grace
Brett Elgin
Jamie Drew (f) (Morgan, f)
Liam Christopher Robert
Gareth Reed (Sydnee, f)
Teagan Birch (f)
Gavin Lee
Sadie Maya (Saskia)
Jordan Xavier Jonathan (Sierra, Logan)
Eric Leif (Reed)
Paige Audrey (Madison)
Mateo John
Devynn Ellen (Cailynn, Braedyn)
Samuel Philippe
Ciara Hayley (Claire, Charles, Catherine)
William Daniel (Fiona, Gwyneth)

I was pretty impressed at the names at first, but they got worse as I kept reading. I do like quite a few of these names, though, especially Gavin, Jordan, Mateo and William. I dislike Gareth, Devynn, Madison and Teagan the most. I was surprised at the number of cases where multiple middle names were given!

I'm pretty impressed with the sibset William, Fiona and Gwyneth. Not a fan of Devynn, Cailynn and Braedyn, though! I don't love sibsets where they all start with the same letter, but at least Ciara, Claire, Charles and Catherine are all decent names individually.

I'm normally not a fan of boys' names on girls, but as boys names go Jamie and Morgan are pretty decent in my books. I normally prefer a feminine middle name if the first one could be either, but in this case her father's name was Drew, so I think that works.