Name My Child

[Drawmack]

Interesting Voneth. You don't get much more mundane then my name of Justing Thomas. However I do not like the name Justin, chalk it up to childhood mashaps with teachers and an older brother named Jason. So I go by my middle name. This means that on all things legal my name is J. Thomas Enders. People remember my name because of the J. Though I would never name a kid Xavier for a first name.

/me shivers at the thought of teaching a 1 year old to say xavier.

/me has visions of a kindergarten teach, gone made, in a rage, wielding a large knife, coming at me mumbling a child named Xavier is just wrong.

Nope I don't think I'd do that.

 

[diaglo]

George Alexander Mateo Enders...

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

And now for something entirely normal...

I rather think that Alexander Xavier just rolls off the tongue better. The kid would probably be called Alex most of the time anyway, which would eliminate possible snickering over a strange name. Besides, everyone has a strange middle name, it's in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to Life, The Universe, and Everything."

 

[Drawmack]

George Alexander Mateo Enders...

He got game

 

[megamania]

Advice from the married man who has children:

Hem and haw a bit. Go back and forth on your name or her name. Then "give in" and let her choice win. Both are good names, incidentally, so it's not a losing situation.

Then call dibs on naming the second child (should it ever come) since she got the first one...

Glad this wasn't the case for me. My father made it clear the first son was to be named Charles Henry Farrell IV. That was my brother. My mother got to name me. IF I repeat IF my father was to name me, he was going to make my middle name either Apollo or Eagle since I was born during the moonshot.

My advice- you have several months to decide. Continue to think about it and jingle names together. By time the rugrat is here you will chosen about 5 concrete names that will not change.

 

[Tiberius]

I concur with Henry and Trevalon. Xavier is a great name. I'm partial to Alexander Xavier over Ryan James. You could go for something entirely different and name the child Ignatius, Menelaus, Astyanax, or something else that is rather atypical yet cool-sounding. Or Caesar. You can't go wrong with Caesar.

-Tiberius

 

[Drawmack]

Gotcha - this has been a fun troll and not bad for my first one either.

Sorry I was bored at work this morning and needed something to do.

 

[Dareoon Dalandrove]

You could always cave in and let your wife name the child whatever she wants. Then when the child is born just call it what you wanted to. One of my friends had a child with his girlfriend and we all just started calling it another name for the first few years of it's life.

or you could go with an ebay bid. Sell the right to name your child.

 

[Nifft]

Gotcha - this has been a fun troll and not bad for my first one either.

Sorry I was bored at work this morning and needed something to do.

A troll is supposed to be to posters what the Golden Apple was to godesses -- a trigger for discordian tendancies, a spark that sets off a firestorm of responses.

Yours is far, FAR too tame to be a "gotcha!" style troll.

-- Nifft, former USENETizen

 

[Olive]

looks like it comes down to whether you want folks calling him "R.J." or "AXE"

is there even a question here? You play DnD, of COURSE you want your kid to be called AXE!!!