A Name, a Name, My Kingdom for a Name.
We had seen our baby on screen and as an ex scout I know it pays to be prepared. Lets get some names.
Well at 12 weeks a doctor can’t tell the sex of your baby from a scan so we (and 90% of other parents to be) decided to finalise names for a boy and a girl. Our friends with children have told us how the names they had chosen didn’t fit the baby once it was born but I think we all like to have some ideas prior to that moment.
Choosing a name is actually harder than it sounds. We purchased a book of 1 billion baby names but every name one of us mentioned was disregarded by the other due to some school friend, potential nickname or stigma involved.
- Owen – Too old sounding (no offence Owen)
- Louise – I knew a Louise at school, she was a cow (no offence Lou)
- Jonas – Too religious sounding (don’t know any)
- Joshua – Every boy in our area seems to be called Joshua at the moment (it’s true)
- Freya – Taken by my brother-in-law (grrrrrr)
Well after a long time, at least 3 or 4 days, we finally came up with a single name for a boy and 1 for a girl (lucky we aren’t having identical twins). “Can I tell them?” I have the nod.
Our final (well as final as they can be) names are….
Noah and Mya.
Spud, oh yeah Spud. As we don’t know the gender of our baby we chose to call him/her Spud till birth. Middle names, do we have middle names? 3 to 4 days choosing first names. Nope no middle names 
We do have Transformer names though. I’m Malcimus Prime, Fiona is Fionatron and Spud is Spudulator. Currently Fionatron and Spudulator are powerlinked. Ask your nephew.
April 25th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Nice names you two have come up with Ham
(I keep calling you Ham because I don’t know your bloody IRL name - 
)
I remember my aunt and uncle getting to the step of name choosing - took the some time too
April 29th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Rog - check the very first post of the blog to see Ham’s real name you utter doofus
Anyways - have to say intersting choice of names there Ham. You rejected Jonas as it sounded religious, but chose Noah if it’s a boy. Noah is a nice name though, cant say i know any and, of course, can’t be shortened.
My own nephews and nieces are called Warren, Caitlin and Elliot. Have to admit, of the 3 i do like the name Caitlin a hell of a lot.
Having spent 2 bloody hours coming up with the amazing alias of Medius years ago - i have to say - i don’t envy you one bit naming a child. Your choice, of course, is a damn site more important in the scheme of things than a gamertag, but i assume the process of rejection of virtually every name you can think of for some reason or another woudl be similar (and as i have no kids it’s the closest comparison i can make).
May 17th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
congrats Fi. and Malc and happy birthday grandson Noah .
May 17th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
congatulations from Pauline ,Peter and Gemma x