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I think it is a misconception that some baby name is boring.

Nothing is less boring than a name embraced by a small energetic human confident that's who they are.

I imagine you might want a funky name for a toy to convinve yourself - that is a total non-issue for children.



Yeah I chose “boring” names for my kids.

I do think the best names are ones with the most meaning.

You name a kid Isaac, you could be naming him after Isaac Newton. It puts something on to him.

If you name a kid William, maybe you hope he will be the next Shakespeare.

Simply by naming someone something, you imprint something on to them. The history and power of a culture.

Yet for this very reason, especially when people see the culture as dark, they choose unique names, names that say you can be who you want to be.

Though I think I still prefer old names, looking at names of people who have done something, and then hoping to do something similar.

I think this is kind of why a convert to an orthodox Christianity, from some heterodoxy, or atheism, or from the religion of the “infadels” takes a new name in baptism. They hope to live up to whomever. If you take the name Theresa at baptism with a sense of obligation to love the lowly like Mother Theresa and so on.

Wonder if other religions do similar things?


I named my kid Dexter. Despite my best efforts he won't wear lab coats or speak with an accent. When I try he just asks me to go buy some plastic drop cloths and goes back to sharpening the kitchen knives.


You always have to name the sister first, otherwise it’s a Schroedinger’s Dexter that never turns out the way you expected.


> You name a kid Isaac, you could be naming him after Isaac Newton. It puts something on to him.

My son's name. I was thinking of Isaac Asimov and I had Isaac Newton in mind as well. I know an SF writer who I worked with who named his sons Arthur and Robert, after famous SF writers obviously in his case.


Everyone else is thinking you named your kid after the first guy to get circumcised, whose father Abraham almost sacrificed him




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