Rupert is an exceptionally strong name.

Yeah, not really recommending. I just always think of Giles saying this when baby names come up as a topic.

I'm convinced not all men suck, I've just never met them.

I know not all men suck. I've met some great men! They are all partnered, to wiser and swifter persons than I.

I have that superstition too, though being of Southern Presbyterian extraction, I've no idea where it comes from. My sister must have it also; she nicknamed both kids when they were fetuses and didn't tell anyone their names until they were born.

I tend to call womb dwelling babies whimsical names like Bobbin or Poppet. Some friends called their fellow, Spud. Made me smile every time.

The only baby name suggestion I ever offer is Clovis. Someday, someone will take me up on that.

Wait, no. I did give my opinion on a former friend's baby name choice; I figured I should let her know that it was also the name of a werewolf clan in a fairly well-known RPG

Matilda's womb-name was The Halloweenie, even after we'd settled on a name for her born self.

My cousin J and his wife did not tell anyone the names of their kids before they were born. Their oldest are twins and the way they were situated in the womb no one could ever get a clear picture of the gender anyway. They did the same thing with their youngest. All the kids are First Name Mother's Last Name as middle name Father's Last Name. The names aren't really that odd or but they are good names.

I can't remember if J's sister followed the same thing but her daughters both have slightly unusual names that read Old School Southern to me and both girls have traditionally male names and then a more traditionally feminine (but unusual) name, which is what I think makes it seem old school southern.

Some family members were not happy but I think they are cool. Both girls have the type of names that sound like Women Who Did Something and Kicked Ass.

Also I'm home from work early. I didn't have an issue getting to work, but I started feeling tired and started coughing intermittently and dropping/tripping over things.

And we had tons of coverage and no customers so I framed it "I'd like to go home and rest so I don't get run down and catch something else" which was fine.

holy moly that eshakti site looks amazing. Custom measurements, for realz? I gotta try that!

And i'm on the "never use given name until after the baby is born" bench. What if you start using what you think in advance will be a perfect name and then it doesn't fit right? Nah, my mom friends referred to bean or sqirrel or boo until it greeted the world properly. Names are Important. Ltc seems perfect.

I didn't find out the gender until birth so my selected names were in theory. I think all my family knew my choices. They aren't the kind to say negative stuff about your selections. Firstborn was named for his father. I think we both were set on that. Secondborn was named for my nephew who passed a couple months before he was conceived, so I did ask my sister's opinion first because I would never have done it if it would cause her pain.

I didn't get a Victoria, but will toss it out as a suggestion for my theoretical Holt granddaughters. At this point still very theoretical. Neither son seems to be planning this move any time soon.

Yeah, we used the name we'd chosen for the daughter up until the eighth month when I got tired of people picking the name choice apart. I think we ended up with a name we liked even better; a little bit of a twist on a name that was only becoming popular, but not in a huge way. Whereas, if we'd stuck with the original one, there's millions (or it seems like).

eta: we didn't know the sex, we just really wanted a girl. We didn't even have a boy's name picked out!