As if planning for a baby wasn't stressful enough, choosing a name feels like a huge responsibility. Especially when you have a small number of peers who either

As if planning for a baby wasn't stressful enough, choosing a name feels like a huge responsibility. Especially when you have a small number of peers who either changed their name as adults or choose to be known by a middle name rather than their first name, underlining that sometimes people dislike their names enough to take the matter into their own hands. My wife and I divided up the responsibility when we were expecting 20 years ago: she would choose a boy's name, I would choose a girl's name. Coincidentally we both ended up choosing Arthurian names: Tristan for a boy, Morgana for a girl. Clearing firstlastname.com domain names was straightforward, and ultimately we had a girl, so Morgana it was. Unfortunately Morgan was a common enough name that people initially try to pronounce it as Morgan and then get stuck when they see the vowel on the end, but this problem went away after the BBC show Merlin happened. One additional unplanned bonus was that her full name is alliterative, given both first and last name starts with "M". I do think there's nice stickiness bonus to alliterative names, as evidenced by comic book and other fictional character names. It's just one more factor to consider.