Elijah Joseph
Elijah - "My God is Jehovah" - my paternal grandfather's middle name
Joseph - "He will enlarge" - Ann's paternal grandfather's first name
We talked about waiting until the baby is born before sharing the name with anyone. I have heard other parents reason that people are less likely to make comments or express "opinions" about the name once the kid has actually arrived.
However, when you're at the stage of life where you and all your friends are all having babies at the same time, you have this nagging fear that someone else will "steal" the name you've chosen and then you won't be able to use it. Also, once we knew for sure it was a boy we really started wondering, "Why wait?"
Therefore, we are introducing our baby boy now as "Elijah Joseph Parsell" - "Eli" for short - so as to "lock it in."
Now we can rest easy for the next five months without worrying that we will receive that dreaded phone call in the middle of the night, "So-and-so just had a healthy baby boy and they named him Elijah!"
"Noooooooooo!"
Joseph - "He will enlarge" - Ann's paternal grandfather's first name
We talked about waiting until the baby is born before sharing the name with anyone. I have heard other parents reason that people are less likely to make comments or express "opinions" about the name once the kid has actually arrived.
However, when you're at the stage of life where you and all your friends are all having babies at the same time, you have this nagging fear that someone else will "steal" the name you've chosen and then you won't be able to use it. Also, once we knew for sure it was a boy we really started wondering, "Why wait?"
Therefore, we are introducing our baby boy now as "Elijah Joseph Parsell" - "Eli" for short - so as to "lock it in."
Now we can rest easy for the next five months without worrying that we will receive that dreaded phone call in the middle of the night, "So-and-so just had a healthy baby boy and they named him Elijah!"
"Noooooooooo!"
Labels: baby
posted by Joshua at 10:09 AM
6 Comments:
Tell Eli his Aunt Ali loves him already!
What a great name guys. Rachel loves both of the names, and now we can't use them at all. ;)
But that is ok, because we are hoping for girls from now on.
Even though we had decided on a name for our son, we were thinking of changing his name to Eli. Shoot, that name's been locked. Oh well.
When do name locks expire? After the baby is born + X months?
Well, it's a fairly simple algorithm. If we're talking about your sibling's kid's names (the to-be-named-baby's cousins) then never. The amount of time is inversely proportional to the distance of the relationship. Because you assume that the "relational distance" to a sibling is effectively zero, then the name lock time approaches infinity. For very close friends it could still be a while.
You have to tread carefully. Using a name that someone you know has used for their kid sends a message about how close you feel to them. (Unless you are actually naming your child after their child.) (Which could also send an opposite but equally awkward message about how close you feel to them.)
I plan on using one of the HTML verification images to name my offspring. Two obvious benefits come to mind immediately. First of all, you don't have to worry about other ppl taking the name. Know anyone else named Gcqnnjzs? Liar. And secondly... ok, maybe only one benefit.
If Elijah means "My God is Jehovah", and you call him Eli... He is going to have a lot to live up to! :-)
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