Baby Names!

There is always something exciting & fascinating about thinking about a name for your baby. And invariably one starts doing it from day one, once you get the news of your pregnancy. These days my husband and me are in a deep discussion over the names we would like to keep. And since it’s bound to happen that a husband and wife rarely reach on a consensus on any topic, we are having our share of disputes. The reasons vary from the name is too common name to its so difficult to pronounce or it sounds so weird, to outright it’s a rubbish name.

Since we are Indians and again Hindu’s, therefore mythology, numerology, astrology and any other science that you can think up of is applicable while naming a child, hence we have to consider the Rashi at the time of birth, the akshar at the time of birth, the time at the time of birth and the planetary positions…which makes the whole task quite tedious. Hence the common conclusion that we have been able to reach so far is to select names starting with all alphabets in Hindi and English for both the genders, so, at the final moment we have our favourite names handy. Which itself is a fairly tough task because now, you have to reach a consensus on a favourite name for every alphabet where in you are having atleast 3 to 4 options per alphabet. So anybody who is good in maths, specially permutations and combinations can give you an idea of the name range that we need to shortlist!

Apart from this, we are again having a minor glitch on the logic of naming our child. I would want the name to start with ‘H’ and he would obviously want ‘M’, provided we discount the Rashi thing as of now. That apart, I am quite religiously sentimental and strongly believe in fairly tales, so wish to have a name which means a god or a goddess or can be interpreted as a child blessed by God or some form of a king or a queen/princess. On the other hand, my husband is a hardcore sports person who is toying with the idea of naming our child after a sports man who would be awarded the "man of the match" or win a tournament on the day of the child’s birth! Now, it could be any sport really like a cricket, tennis, hockey or badminton, no issues about it and the player of the day would be honored as we would name our child after him. No offense to anyone, all are great players but what if it’s a tongue twister kind of name of some foreign player or its an international player who wins on the date I deliver, I can’t name my child after a player just because they won the Wimbledon on that day. Although, after I developed a liking for tennis I personally adore Fedrer and think he is an awesome guy and plays like GOD, but still I am not convinced enough to name my son “Roger”!

Since I have been insisting on some kind of king or queen kind of a character, my husband has suggested “Ravaan” or “Kaans”. His justification is they were after all learned people, just their deeds were not justified at that time and according to him I should be open to the idea of making a change and take the initiative of naming our child differently. I am not at all game to this idea, although my mother seems to be supporting him in this nonsense suggestion! Please excuse me; I can still take the sport’s person!

My husband is also worried I may give our child some weird embarrassing nickname and is trying to shortlist a name which cannot be abbreviated any further…but it’s an undue worry because I have already though of a nickname which is soo adorable & cute, but only to my ears!

At the end I have reached the conclusion that thinking up of a suitable name is a tough task which leaves us with flared tempers. No wonder we need to keep thinking for nine months, to get the perfect name!