More naming

Amber and I have posted a number of times on baby names and things people should think about when they are pregnant.

A lovely couple that do one of my favorite podcasts, Two Boobs and a Baby+, have just had their second child. Ella Delaney. A pretty name in its own right. And their son, Sam, who was born almost exactly a year earlier, has an equally normal and good name. The thing is that they named them without thought to how they fit together. Even after people pointed it out to them while she was pregnant, they decided it would be funny to name their kids Sam 'n' Ella. I can respect their decision, because they consciously thought it through. Though I think their idea of having a yearly birthday BBQ party in support of Sam 'n' Ella is kind of tacky.

My second thought on this topic is that people name their babies thinking of them as babies. They don't think about what the name will be like on a grown-up. Can you imagine Prime Minister Gynnipher Jones?

A perfect example of this was the little girl at the Hallowe'en party we went to. She was dressed up in a lab coat and stethoscope and had a nametag that said, "Dr. Trinity". This poor girl has been set up to be in the adult entertainment industry.