Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Audrey Kate Greywoode is a great name and an even better niece

As a couple who will be making a similar decision soon, we have to applaud Ashley and Jewel's choice of a name for their daughter (our niece). Audrey Kate Greywoode is a beautiful name that is neither run-of-the-mill nor overly peculiar. We have not heard whether the Hepburns were specifically called out here but regardless, the graceful Audrey, a soft sounding name that is delicate, followed by the shorter name of Kate, which is typically a nick-name, strikes the perfect balance. The use of the nickname version for Kate is a great choice because it adds some panache to the name without going off the reservation. While Audrey is a name of soft sounds and vowels, Kate is just a K and a T, two of the hardest sounding letters in the alphabet, put together in a cute one-syllable name that complements the more fancy-pants names of Audrey and Greywoode both in sound and number of syllables.

Or, in short, we love it.

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