(This post was originally a reply to an earlier “Today’s Name”, but since it looks like our friend Chris has put more thought into our baby’s name than we have, I believe it warrants its own post. So say “hi” to Chris everyone. He’s a man with ideas!)

Okay, I’ve come a long way since “Pegasus”, so hear me out. Now, you’ll want to stay international with this one, and I mean in a nondiscriminatory sort of way. Sure, your baby could look Indian or s/he could look Norwegian. But, the birds and the bees, whistling and buzzing as they do (as in, it takes two…usually), you very well could have a green, or maybe even grey child. In that case you should steer clear of, say, the Krishna’s and the Jonathan’s, and opt for something much more color-blind and Asian-fusion. This becomes tough with single names, so you’ll need at least two names to work with.

As a helping hand in my search, I found Google to be quite helpful. For example, let’s consider “Ram Beau Gupta”. It traverses the world! Ram means…well, I don’t know, but it was listed on a website as an Indian name. And Beau of course…is French…and…you guys went to Paris. The States come into play in saying the first and middle names together, and I think it just takes me back to Sylvester Stallone’s younger, more lucrative days. Speaking of which, you could just name him “Rocky”. Or her. It doesn’t matter these days. People are naming girls “Jordan” and boys “Jesse”, so the line has already been erased. Think of it as being liberated from the days of choosing gender-specific names. Hell, have a girl and name her “Robert Marie”. She could go by “Bobbi” or maybe just raise her as a tomboy. You could just as easily have a boy and name him “Barbie Thomas”. He could go by Barb (it would sound like Bob in Boston), or you could enroll him in theatre and give him a cape. In that case I would prefix his name with Ssuper.

As a final alternative, you could go Access Hollywood with the whole thing and combine your names. I should say, hypothetically one COULD do that. All I have are “Sahul” and “Rahrah”, so I’ll leave that up to someone else.

Okay, maybe I’m not much help, but I have come to three conclusions during this much-too-long post: (1) THINKING about naming a child is exciting, (2) ACTUALLY naming a child is tiresome, and (3) I plan on simply indexing our children by birth order.

So cheers to “Gupta-1?: may your aqueous life be warm & cozy, and may cookies and shakes flow freely and abundantly through your umbilical cord.