What's in a name

This is a re-post from an older post, so though my daughter has been born and is named, all of the verbs are past tense.  i apologize.  Please don’t hate me.

Before my first son was born, I thought that the actual physical preparation would be the toughest part, you know, buying stuff, setting stuff up, getting ready.  But I was wrong.  the hardest part was deciding on a name, and I think that eventually coming up with Nathaniel was a miracle.

Now here I am again, 2 years later, having to move furniture, build furniture, and shop for lots of crap.  And I would rather do these activities multiple times than come up with a name for my daughter to come.

You see there, are rules.  Rules that can not be broken under penalty of death.  And here they are:

1. Can not be a name shared by one of our cousins.  And we have ten female cousins between us.
2. Can not share a name with an ex-girlfriend (easier to deal with since several of my girlfriends share names with our cousins)
3. Can not share name with a girl either of us has a bad association with, you know, the fat girl, the stupid girl, the trap, the cheerleader.  No names that elicit the image of someone who brings back bad memories
4. Can not begin with “C’ or “K” if it has the hard consonant sound.  My last name begins with C, and I don’t want my daughter to sound like a comic book character (ala Perter Park or Reed Richards).
5. Can not be found in the list of top twenty popular names of the past 5 years.My wife does not want her to be 1 of 4 girls with the same name.
6. Must be more than one syllable so there can be a natural nickname.
7. If there is a natural nickname, it can not sound stupid (For example, Sebastian because Sebass, a type of fish)
8. Must not be too weird, or too ethnic.
9. Means of making fun of the name can not be too obvious.  We liked Natalia, until someone told us that you can change Natalia to Geni-talia real easily.  So scrap that one.

So… I’ll admit it, we’re struggling now.

I think the only name left that fits our criteria is Michelle.  But that’s my mothers name.

I’m tempted to pull out 10 Scrabble tiles and arrange them randomly into a name.  And I won’t pull out the Q, X or Z’s before hand.

So, world, please welcome my daughter Quiznox!

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One Response to “What's in a name”

1. Eric says:

   September 25, 2009 at 9:27 am

   If you got good game board placement, that name could get you about 67 points in scrabble.

   or be an alien race..

   No offense to your daughter..