HELP ME NAME A HUMAN!

[East Coast Hustle]

So naming a baby girl is a surprisingly difficult thing. Do we pick a name that honors beloved ancestors (my dad, her grandpa)? Do we pick one that honors our respective heritages (Thai by way of Guam, Mainer by way of the Virgin Islands)? Or that has some meaning we like or that just sounds really cool or that fulfills my arbitrary familial alliterative tendency to give everybody a "J" name?

I mean, what the shit. How do people not spend months paralyzed with anxiety over the power and influence that the name they choose is going to have over their child's entire life?

So, this is the part where I crowdsource a bit with a target audience that I consider to be a bit more of a jury of my peers than I'd get with a facebook post.

Names on the short list so far include:

Joey (current front-runner)
Jazeera
Adelaide
Calypso
Charlotte
Tasi
Isabelle
Nikita
Juno

So I'd love any feedback or suggestions any of you might have, especially any of you who have experienced the agony of having to give your kid a moniker that they're stuck with for life and doubly especially any of you who aren't going to say some dumb shit that isn't funny in a failed attempt to be funny.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I really, really, really wanted to name my youngest Walter.

Her father refused.

A second runner-up to the name we gave her was Phaedra.

I really like "Adelaide" and "Charlotte", as I'm a sucker for old-fashioned names, but I also like "Joey" a lot. I have classes with a woman named Gregory and I like traditional men's names for girls.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

But just imagine how many interviews she'll get called for with a name like Walter Johnson. That's just a damn solid name. Trustworthy. Competent. Reliable.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I kinda like Joey.

[Eater of Clowns]

Adelaide is a beautiful name. Just don't let anyone call her Addy.

[hooplala]

I like Isabelle.

[East Coast Hustle]

I kinda like Joey.

That's my favorite so far. It leads with the all-important "J" and it honors the 2 most important role models in my life, my dad (John) and my godfather (Whitey). But we have 3 months, so I'm not trying to call a winner yet. And while ECHGF likes that one, she's by no means 100% sold on it.

I really like Charlotte because the capital town on St. Thomas is Charlotte Amalie (named after a Danish queen) but I'm afraid there's gonna be a ton of them now that there's a Princess Charlotte.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I kinda like Joey.

That's my favorite so far. It leads with the all-important "J" and it honors the 2 most important role models in my life, my dad (John) and my godfather (Whitey). But we have 3 months, so I'm not trying to call a winner yet. And while ECHGF likes that one, she's by no means 100% sold on it.

I really like Charlotte because the capital town on St. Thomas is Charlotte Amalie (named after a Danish queen) but I'm afraid there's gonna be a ton of them now that there's a Princess Charlotte.

I'm just thinking that I've only known 2 women named Joey, and they were both absolute bad-asses.

Which ain't a bad thing to be, these days.

[East Coast Hustle]

I really, really, really wanted to name my youngest Walter.

Her father refused.

A second runner-up to the name we gave her was Phaedra.

I really like "Adelaide" and "Charlotte", as I'm a sucker for old-fashioned names, but I also like "Joey" a lot. I have classes with a woman named Gregory and I like traditional men's names for girls.

I had to think about it for a minute, but I really like Walter for a girl. Particularly, I like Wally for a girl's nickname. I'm going to run it by ECHGF. She's going to give me that look, but whatever. She already shot down Jazeera and that didn't stop me from putting it on my short list.

[MMIX]

Jeris.

Just a thought. What's she like btw? Its amazing how quickly babies show character.

[LMNO]

I think Joey is a great name. 



So is Walter.

[Cain]

I'm a fan of old-fashioned names myself, so my vote goes with Isabelle and Charlotte.  Even when they're not popular, they never go out of fashion.

[Freeky]

I quite like Tasi and Nikita, but Joey is also really good.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I really, really, really wanted to name my youngest Walter.

Her father refused.

A second runner-up to the name we gave her was Phaedra.

I really like "Adelaide" and "Charlotte", as I'm a sucker for old-fashioned names, but I also like "Joey" a lot. I have classes with a woman named Gregory and I like traditional men's names for girls.

I had to think about it for a minute, but I really like Walter for a girl. Particularly, I like Wally for a girl's nickname. I'm going to run it by ECHGF. She's going to give me that look, but whatever. She already shot down Jazeera and that didn't stop me from putting it on my short list.

OMG OMG OMG. I hope she doesn't hate it. It would make me so happy if you named your little spawn Walter! And Wally is a totally awesome nickname.

[East Coast Hustle]

She actually liked it. It's on the short list.