{"id":437,"date":"2007-04-20T06:53:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T14:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/the-name-game\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T06:53:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T14:53:45","slug":"the-name-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/the-name-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Name Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we’re expecting our first progeny, there’s a million decisions to be made. There are many nearly inconsequential ones like the color of the bedding, but there are other decisions like giving the kid a name. The kid will never remember the bedding, but they’re pretty much stuck with the name for their whole life. <\/p>\n

To make this process work, we laid down a few simple rules. The first was that if a name suggestion is made and the other one of us doesn’t like it, it can be immediately vetoed – no questions asked. <\/p>\n

Then there’s just a few more rules:<\/p>\n

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  1. No names of family members, including extended family (Sorry, Mom)\n
  2. No names that are really popular (which seems to be most Irish names these days)\n
  3. No names of friends’ kids (that kills quite a few, actually)\n
  4. No names of girls Jeff has dated (that Anne can remember \ud83d\ude00 )\n
  5. No names that are hard to spell over the phone (Machenzzie, anyone?)\n
  6. No names that are of ambiguous gender (Chris, Sam, Jordan all out)\n
  7. No names with too much alliteration (Buffy Boulter)\n
  8. No names that will get the kid beat up (Melvin)\n
  9. No names that make for weird initials or initials that spell things (hub, pub, cab, bub, bob, bib, dub, tub, sub, sob, rub, rob, rib, orb, nab, lab)\n
  10. No names of particular children that Anne worked with who died (sigh)\n
  11. No names of people’s pets (well at least the ones that can be names of humans too)\n
  12. No names of Greek Gods (Athena, Venus)\n
  13. No names that sound like strippers (Destiny, Bubbles, Precious)\n<\/ol>\n

    We’ve got about 4 books, each of which has at least 25,000 names in them. After applying all these rules and our vetos, I think there’s about 5 possible names left. They all start with X and contain no vowels.<\/p>\n

    So is “child #1” an acceptable name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Now that we’re expecting our first progeny, there’s a million decisions to be made. There are many nearly inconsequential ones like the color of the bedding, but there are other decisions like giving the kid a name. The kid will never remember the bedding, but they’re pretty much stuck with the name for their whole …<\/p>\n

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