13 weeks, 5 days: Part II.
So my husband and I are not having an easy time with baby names, mostly because he thinks “Ghengis” is a great name for a boy. (Not happening, dear, sorry… *grin*)
My problem is that there are names I like, but sometimes they don’t quite fit, or aren’t names I’d actually want to use. I stumbled across a new toy called Nymbler though, and I’m interested to see if it comes up with anything… Most baby name sites let you choose by first letter, gender, and origin (although some of the origins are clearly messed up on most sites), and I’ve found that that gets me nowhere pretty quickly.
This one, however, uses a set of names you choose to “influence” the suggestions it makes for other names. I don’t actually know with what information names are tagged in the database, and the site really only tells you that it uses a genetic algorithm to suggest names (which is a cool idea, though without knowing how the names are represented, that’s a pretty vague description – ah, proprietary information 
). Neat concept – I’ll be interested to see if it can give us some inspiration.
Hopefully we can come up with better than “Ghengis” if it’s a boy. (Ok, I can come up with better than Ghengis anyway – I’ll just send the husband out for Thai food when I start to push, and by the time he comes back, “Kid-not-known-as-Ghengis” will be out and named…) Rather fortunately, his grandmother has a pretty name that works rather nicely for a girl, so I don’t have to worry about “Ghengisette” or anything like that.
I think. Never know. That evil German guy can’t be trusted
Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
OK, I must say, I like you guys referring to the baby as Ghengis MUCH better than as Monster.
I do hope your pregnancy is smooth for you. My wife had one boy that was 4 1/2 weeks early and one boy that was 2 weeks late. You can never tell with these little Ghengis’.
Anyways, that told us we were done. Can’t even get them to come out on time! LOL
Bah… monsters are cute and snuggly
Ghengises (Genghii??) are evil barbarian conquerors who leave nothing but destruction in their wake! Like, um, toddlers!
I’ll just be happy if the kid comes out at term – I don’t really care if it’s a couple of weeks either way *grin*
Tell your husband that “Gengis” for some odd reason reminds me of the word “Vagina.” Like they could be cousins or something. Coming from someone named “Irvina” like myself, please be careful when naming your child
Congrats by the way.
ROFL… I’ll make sure I tell him that
That might convince him it’s a good idea, though. As I said, he’s eeeevil…
Here’s a name I would LOVE to hear more: Maximus. It’s macho, manly, and can be shortened to Max (if need be).
We thought about it, but nothing goes with our last name, so we’re screwed
And, as a bonus, “Maximus” reminds me of Russell Crowe looking rather tasty in “Gladiator”
Of course, it also reminds me of “Naughtius Maximus” in The Life of Brian, so I suppose that’s out. And “Maximus Grothoff” doesn’t work too well either… darn
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