Name Panic
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When my husband and I named our daughter Monet we were pretty sure that it was relatively unique, as far as names go. When she was about two months old I was reading through a parenting magazine and there was her name, smack in the middle of a short article about cool, unique names for babies.
I wanted to run out and buy every copy so people wouldn’t see it and decide to bestow the name upon their daughters. This wasn’t realistic, of course, but I was pretty bummed out about the whole thing.
We named our son Abram because while it is somewhat unique it isn’t really weird. A couple of months ago, however, I was reading in another parenting magazine about a woman who named her daughter Abram. I threw the magazine on the ground and said a little prayer right then that my son’s name wouldn’t be destined to be the next hottest name for little girls.
Maybe I need to stop reading parenting magazines.
It’s such a huge privilege to give a name to a baby. I didn’t take the task lightly. I guess I didn’t expect for it to be an ongoing source of worry, though. I figured that a baby gets a name and that’s the end of it. I didn’t know that I would still have panic attacks over baby names long after my babies were far passed the naming stage.
brit says...
I know another Monet too. I think it’s getting really popular now. Hey, at least you are a trendsetter!