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Message: <blockquote data-quote="elrobey" data-source="post: 2615338" data-attributes="member: 8725">My son has two first names, one middle name, one last name. His last name is my last name; his middle name is his mom's last name. His first names are "John Caius". That's Caius pronounced KEYS. It comes from Gonville & Caius College at Cambridge University, UK, where his parents first met. John is a common name in his mom's family -- her brother, father, and grandfather all have it. We call him Jack or (endearingly) Jackers now, but as he grows up (he's not yet 3) it'll be Jack.We didn't settle on a name till 3 days after he was born, when the hospital made us name him before taking him home. John was in the running all along, though Emmet was the favorite (we also considered Edward and Henry). We didn't want plain John. Finally I suggested John Caius -- Caius is Latin for "Rejoice" -- and it clicked. I'd had that idea in my back pocket for years. Indeed, for years I'd joked that our dog Milo's middle name was Gonville.So in a sense Jack was named, not *after* the dog per se, but *after the manner in which* the dog was named.We are expecting a daughter in a few weeks! As with Jack, we won't name her till we are ready to take her home. But the favorites are Louise (my wife's grandmother's name) and Esme (just something unusual that we stumbled across and like). If we go with Louise we will call her Lucy, even though that's not a traditional nickname for Louise, but it's close enough. My guess is she'll be Esme Louise, though whether we'd call her Esme or Ezzie or Lucy I have no idea. John Caius and Esme Louise, I kind of like the symmetry there.If she'd been a boy she'd have been Henry, and we'd have called her Harry or maybe Huck.</blockquote>

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