What's In A Name

And so it begins. The Choosing of the Name.

We do have a handy book, The Baby name Wizzard, to help us out, with popularity/use charts, meanings, nicknames, and "brother and sister" names. It also has a section of names by "style"

Here for example is one of the "charted" names:

Adonis: Peaked at #829 in 2003

Style: Fanciful, Mythological

Nicknames: Don

Sister Names: Venus, Electra, Artemis, Oceana, Isis

Brother Names: Apollo, Achilles, Morpheus, Orion, Ceaser

Adonis sounds as cool as can be, but it's a gamble. If he's anything but

a perfect physical specimin, the name, symbolic of male beauty, could be a burden

Funny, huh? I think I prefer Achilles.

Or, you could choose from the Porch Sitters List: Maynard Odell

Or, the Surfer Sixties List: Stoney Dwayne

Or, maybe, just maybe, the Guys and Dolls List: Vito Carmine

These books, while useful, do crack me up more often than not.

Any of these seem like keepers?