He is here, he is named: Sean Sheonan Gupta.

Tired now.  More info on the name soon.  Tomorrow?  Who knows?  Only Sean.

8 pounds 14 ounces | 20 inches | 4:17AM CDT

Here we are, all, the moment you’ve all been waiting for — the thrilling conclusion to the 2nd Annual Gupta Family Baby Name Face-off!

We’re down to 2 names, the fan favorite, Mason, and the dark horse, Alexander.  I must say that I’m surprised that Alexander made it this far, especially with Sarah’s insistence that that the nickname be “Sasha”.  We’ll see.

(side note: my mom wanted me to make it clear that we are interested in name suggestions which aren’t part of the tourney, so keep ‘em coming.  Lately we’ve been kicking King around.  King Gupta. Yes.)

Here we go….

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We’re down to 4 names!

…and amazingly, one of the 4 is mine. I thought I’d be thoroughly wiped out by now. The baby-naming-gods must be keeping an eye on me.

Oh! We did think of another name to add to the list: Raul, Jr.

Isn’t it brilliant? That way, no one will mispronounce the kid’s name the way they do mine, and we turn it into a family name in one fell swoop! (By the way, did you know the savage origin of that phrase? I didn’t. I do now.)

Alright, folks — I’m really going to have to be punctual on the next (and final) tourney update, ’cause we are already in baby birthing range.

Ready? Set. VOTE!

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Man, it’s been tough to update this on the right day of the week…

I’m back (again) from traveling (again), and so am late (again) to update the tournament.

We had some tight battles this week, with some not-so-surprising results. All of my names have now been knocked out of the tournament but one. You guys are mean.

Our current favorite is still in the running, though. Let’s see if you can knock him out.

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Whew.  What a week.

We’re having so much fun in Golden, we’re a day late updating the competition.

So let’s get caught up:  You guys are all crazy.  In all but 3 of the sixteen pairings, you people chose Sarah’s names over mine.  Even on Mason vs. Mason.  What’s the matter with you people?

I guess I’m going to have to pick some new favorites…

Let’s get to this week’s matchups:

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Friends, Family, Ladies and Gentlemen, the 2nd Annual Gupta Family Baby Name Face-off has begun!

The tournament consists of 32 names: 16 picked by Rahul and 16 picked by Sarah. We asked Tatiana if she had any ideas, and she said “ackitow” (which translates to “tractor”), so we decided she wasn’t taking this seriously enough.

Each list of 16 names was compiled in secret.  We then pitted them, one name against another. First Sarah revealed one of her names, and then I picked one of mine to compete against it. Then I picked one of mine, and she one of hers to try to beat mine. And so on.  It was intense.

Pairings in place, they were divided into the divisions you see below.

It is now up to you. Every week you will vote, and every week the list will be cut in half ’til we have one name left (Sarah wouldn’t let me add Highlander to the list, but we all know that would have won).

The voting system we’re using allows you to vote more than one time, but we ask that you limit it to one vote per person, please. If you want to come back to the page to see who’s winning, click on the link that says “show results” instead of voting again… We’ll know if you don’t. We’re keeping track.

Also, please feel free to use the comments area at the bottom of the post for discussing the finer points of each name.

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So, obviously, this hasn’t been a good year for updating this site, but like many an earnest blogger, I intend to do better.

I was trying to come up with nice sounding excuses, like I’d rather spend time with Tatiana and Sarah than write about it, but, really, it probably comes mostly down to my travel schedule so far this year:

12/2007- Jan 4 – Bay Area (family)
Jan 20-26 Las Vegas (work)
March 24-27 Salt Lake City (family)
March 28-Apr 6 Bay Area (family)
Apr 16-18 Austin (work)
May 20-Jun 2 Bay Area (family)
June 20-23 LA (fun)
July 11-14 Atlanta (family)
July 18-27 St. Martin/Atlanta (Vacation)
Aug 11-15 James in Omaha (work)
Aug 15-31 Bay Area (family)

Though, in the short-term future, things aren’t looking so free either:

Sep 5-15 Golden, CO (family)
Sep 15-18 MN,WI (work)
Oct 1-4 Florida (work)
Oct 22 – Itty-Bitty Due Date

Nonetheless, I’m hopeful that you’ll hear more from us.

At the very least, you’re guaranteed a once-a-week post for the next 6 weeks.

Why?

Because of the 2nd Annual Gupta Family Baby Name Tournament!  Yay!

You may remember last year’s tourney, in which Amelie beat out the unlikely contender, Natalie.  Poor Natalie.  And though we didn’t choose Amelie for Tatiana’s first name, it is her middle name, so well picked, friends!

No matter.  We hope you’re ready for this year’s tournament.  It’ll be starting tomorrow morning and we’ll be kicking it off with an e-mail blast to all of you who aren’t reading this because we haven’t posted in so long and you’ve given up on and forgotten about us.

For a taste of what to expect, these are the names which didn’t make the final cut:

Rahul, Jr.
Rahul Twopointoh
Terrance
Orin
Jackson
Raj
Dashell
Heath
Barack
Dean
Enan
Javed
Satya
Rishi
Xander
Uren
Bo
Victor
Krishan
Lloyd
Boris
Atticus
Adrian
Anton
Ivan
Maxim
Misha
Roman
Julian
Aaron
Evan
Grant
Noah
Neil
AIdan
Benjamin
Rehan
Ray
Jay
Kavi

See you tomorrow!

Did we mention Itty-Bitty is a boy?

(As you can see we’re starting slowly here… just trying to get back into the blogging swing of things!)