A Month of Kearyn.....Day 2 (Her Name)

One of the most common questions I get about our baby girl is how do we pronounce her name..... I can imagine some of you reading this now nodding your head in agreement wanting some clarification as well. So, here it goes. I could say something like "it is pronounced just as it is spelled" and that would be about as clear as mud but it really is pronounced as it is spelled. Here is a little further explanation though so you don't send me hate mail :-) Kearyn is pronounced K-Ear-In. The "ear" part in the middle is pronounced just like your ear you hear out of - hey that rhymed and it also rhymed with Kearyn :-) But that is easy enough, right?

{Kearyn Jaedance Gressman ~ 1 day old}

How did we decide on her name? Well, there is a reason why God only gave me one girl and I am pretty sure it is because if I were to have more than one the others would have remained nameless. I have a bazillion boys names that I like but if my three boys would have been girls I have no idea to this day what I would have named them. I am just not good with the whole girl naming thing I guess.

We also set ourselves up for an even bigger challenge (you know us Gressman's - we can't make it easy) and we didn't even do it on purpose but the boys' initails are C.J, K.J, C.J., and so Kearyn also had to fit in that pattern as the next K.J. I did tell dear hubby that since she was a girl we could start all over with a new rule. We could throw caution to the wind and live on the edge by naming her something that started with a letter besides "C" or "K"  but he used his veto card and said he really wanted her to have the initials K.J. So, after looking through thousands of "K" names the only name I liked was Kearyn. It actually came from the name Kiera which I really like but it is just too popular for my taste and the name Evelyn (my great-grandmother's middle name and a name I just love.) I later did find the name Kearyn spelled like Kieran but I obviously didn't like that spelling because I didn't use it. I feel like the "ea" is so much more femanine - maybe that is because there is the "ea" in my own name :-) - I don't know.

So, there you have it.....Kear (as in your ear, rhyming with hear) yn. It is not pronounced like Karen, Karin, Caryn, Carin, Caren or any other way you can spell the name Karen although I do know some lovely ladies  out there with that name who I would not mind if my daughter shared a name with. :-)

You might be wondering about her middle name but we will save that for another discussion. After all, we have another 29 posts to go.