# Nora, Theo, and... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899 "2017-11-27T23:35:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/21 "2017-11-28T03:30:22Z")
K.J. ( Kelly jr.) ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/22 "2017-11-28T03:42:10Z")
Not a name I would pick but I thought Nora, Theo and Quentin. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/23 "2017-11-28T17:58:32Z")
> [@](#): > > her late husband, who died when she was pregnant with the youngest… So it should be Posthumo. Regards, It’s spelt Throatwarbler Mangrove, but it is pronounced Shodan ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/24 "2017-11-28T18:35:54Z")
Change the sex of the sibling. Anoushka, their half sister. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/25 "2017-11-28T18:38:53Z")
My first thought was Charles. Probably inspired by Nora Charles. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/26 "2017-11-28T18:47:46Z")
Something formal-ish, I think. James? Peter? William? (Though I think Will would flow nicely too). You could give him an old fashioned name like Byron and a little-brother kind of nickname, maybe something like Shorty or Digs or JR or something. Or name him after his father Kelley, but call him Kai (rhymes with Hi). ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/27 "2017-11-28T18:47:53Z")
Finn, short for Finnegan. Kelley and Erin are both Irish names, and while the other kids’ names aren’t, perhaps they found their roots for the third kid. Nora, Theo and Finn. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/28 "2017-11-28T19:12:15Z")
Jonathan ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/29 "2017-11-28T19:22:54Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > So it should be Posthumo. > > Regards, > It’s spelt Throatwarbler Mangrove, but it is pronounced Shodan You joke, but I learned recently that Posthumus is [not an uncommon surname](https://askaling.linguistlist.org//question/41/surname-of-posthumus/), and actually comes from a patronym, being born after the father’s death. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/30 "2017-11-28T19:24:41Z")
Phillip ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/31 "2017-11-28T20:07:21Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > Seconding. Or Kell? > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > K.J. ( Kelly jr.) If the 4 letter thing matters then it would be Kell. Short for Kelley of course, I assume Theo is short for Theodore and Nora short for Eleanor or some other name. Naming schemes aside her late husband would be on her mind. For the Rule of Three to work the third name should be quite distinctively different like Giuseppe or Mohammed. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/32 "2017-11-28T20:35:27Z")
No one ever picks Ebenezer for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/33 "2017-11-28T20:40:30Z")
Oliver ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/34 "2017-11-28T20:42:01Z")
Sebastian ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/35 "2017-11-28T22:08:48Z")
Actual siblings of a Nora and a two Theos I know are Leo, Asher and Benjamin (called Benja). ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/36 "2017-11-28T22:25:53Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Actual siblings of a Nora and a two Theos I know are Leo, Asher and Benjamin (called Benja). Just realized you don’t really want a Theo and a Leo. However, you could turn Leo into Liam, which is an enormously popular name right now, among kids around preschool age. We have about a half dozen in the preschool where I work. It can be a standalone name, or short for William. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/37 "2017-11-28T23:08:32Z")
Ian, or Ioan if you want to go all Welsh and stuff. Alternatively, since Nora and Theo ring as 1920s names to me, something like Evelyn or Albert, maybe? Ev or Bert for short. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/38 "2017-11-30T03:58:35Z")
I think that the suggestion about the 1920s might be getting somewhere. I found this list but it is very long so I have only skimmed it yet [http://www.baby2see.com/names/1920s.html](http://www.baby2see.com/names/1920s.html) Some of these I have never heard of before (Elmore, Norval… Hard nos to both) . And some are both odd and appealing like Merritt… ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/39 "2017-11-30T12:54:52Z")
Some that fit well in my ear with Nora and Theo: Daniel Paul Saul Brian Guy Henry Simon Ben I think the one-syllable names might be best, by my ear. If I had to pick one, I’d say “Paul”. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nora-theo-and/802899/40 "2017-11-30T13:59:21Z")
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