Thursday, April 8, 2010
News You're Probably Going to Hate the Name You Give Your Baby
Posted by Mark Asch on Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:59 PM
- Actress Shannyn Sossamon with her son, Audio Science Clayton.
(Other reasons why 3 percent of parents would change their child's name if they could, according to the post, include giving your child the same name as a subsequently emergent celebrity or fictional parallel; a name that's too trendy or too old-fashioned; naming your child after a relative you eventually grow to hate.)
It's such incredible power, almost a power of creation, to dictate the name by which a person will be known to the world—indeed, to herself. ("And out of the ground the lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof," like in that Andrew Bird song.)
Man, I'm really glad I'm not about to have a baby.
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