Name My Baby

Eerie. Your lists include my name, Mrs. Snape's name and the prepared name for girl baby #2. 

You were going to name her Dave??

I can't think of Hector without thinking of Trent saying "because I'm racist."

Sodapop Curtis's parents thought so too, but then, they also thought Ponyboy was a great name.

I decided over the weekend that you should definitely name the kid Herman and get him really into having pet crabs.

Ahhh, baby-naming -- such a wonderful pastime!  Since I've never gone full Ricky Coogin, my hypothetical boy baby names have never been applied to any actual imaginary children, so these are all still free for the taking.  There would be no awkward social interactions between your real-life child and any imaginary children with the same name.

-- I second (or third?) the vote for Ajax!  Is good, solid name!

-- If you like the A part, and that it has an X in it, but maybe associate "Ajax" too much with the name of that stuffed animal mountain goat that Hugs had as a kid (what, don't all of you remember Ajax the goat?  I think she ended up calling him "Trap-Trap", which might be causing some confusion here...), there's always Axel/Aksel.  Manly and Norse!

-- If you're thinking of maybe not giving him the same starting initial as Baby Snape*, but still want that dynamic "X", why not Rex?  I tried to hard-sell that one for my last real-life friend who had a baby, but she wasn't buying.  (She went with Henry.  While it's not Rex, it's still a good one!)

-- When asked what names they'd chosen during the pregnancies resulting in me and my siblings, my parents would play coy with a comically made-up name for each gender.  But... is it really that comical?  Phaeton!  Great for a 21st-century baby!  Anyone?  Anyone?  (The girl name was Desdemona.)

-- Seriously, though, a number of my friends have done admirable jobs naming their sons with standout monikers that aren't Braiddyn-style or Atticus-style try-hard.  Peter.  Clark.  Benjamin.  Thomas (Tom).  Solid and traditional, but not a dime a dozen.

-- Um, why is this conversation still happening, though?  We all saw Krz.  How can anyone think there can be a better name than Krz?



*Okay, seriously, there are lots of great names that start with the letter A, but do you really want to be the kind of parent who has matchy kid names?  Sure, with only two kids it's not quite as obvious, but honestly -- what's worse than parents who have six kids whose names all start with the same letter?  And here's the part many of those matching-names parents don't think of: when your kids have the same initials, none of their monogrammed stuff is personal.  Now, I am not from a monogrammy kind of family, but when we were kids someone got us all Christmas tree ornaments with our initials on them.  Formal initials, too -- full first names (we all used nicknames with different first letters, but Hugs and I have the same first-lettered full name), middle name (we all have the same middle name, because my parents were MONSTERS), last name.  Non-Hugs and Bort both had ornaments that were obviously theirs, but Hugs and I had matching ones.  And one got lost.  You better believe there was bitter fighting for years after over whose ornament the remaining one really was.  DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES IN LIFE THAT MY PARENTS DID.

Shit, I just remembered one my fiance came up with:



SLAYDEN

Isn't that a hobby room for amateur serial killers?

When I was a kid, my Dad decided we needed more biblical-sounding nicknames (although my name is already that of a freaking archangel, how much biblical do you want?) - so I became Ezekiel, and my brother got Ignatz (which, as far as I can tell doesn't actually appear anywhere in the bible).  Zeke and Iggy for short.  Anyhow, those are good names for kids.  Or Ezekiel is anyhow.  Ignatz sounds like one of those names that might be an insult, but you don't know what it means.

Other good baby names come from classic literature.  I suggest Fafhrd or Ningauble for a boy, or Sheelba for a girl.

Since there's already at least one Krz out there, the possibility exists that Krz Snape wouldn't be the only Krz in his class. That's why I suggest Krzaedyn.

That's just Crzaey!

Earlier today my wife received a resume from someone with the first name of "Messiah-brings-peace".

Don't go with that.

When we get our list narrowed I very well might do.

It's curzzzz right? If that's pronounced Chris I will be furious.

The Future Of Hockey Remains A Bunch Of Kids With Irritating Names

'Because you are wondering, Krz Plummer’s first name is pronounced, no shit, “cruise.”'

Oh yes, obviously.

You know, I was starting to come around on Krz, assuming it was just "Chris", shortened from a first-generation-Canadian Krzysztof or something.  I WAS SO, SO, SO, SO WRONG.  This is why you should never give a generous reading to annoying baby names.  

(GumTurkeyles, I love your "Crazy" interpretation of it.  Should this kid ever end up in the NHL, that's what I'm always going to call him.)