Fun article. We followed nearly all of the advice just from following our own worldviews and from taking simple approaches to the "problem." 1) No candidate na

Fun article. We followed nearly all of the advice just from following our own worldviews and from taking simple approaches to the "problem." 1) No candidate names were discussed outside of the immediate family 1a) To make discussing the baby easier, we had a "project" name as a placeholder, so we could refer easily to things having to do with the baby without being limited to saying "the baby" all the time. Our code name was "Spartacus." So it was, "What color should we paint Spartacus's room?", etc. 2) We stayed away from anything in the top fifty (or one hundred), and we used Babynamewizard to help with that. No one wants to be the third instance of a name in their classroom or circle of friends. 3) We wanted a name that was easy to spell and that people were familiar with, so we weren't going out on a limb and creating a name or repurposing a noun to be a name (e.g., "Feather","Tiger", &c.). 4) We wanted something from the family if we found something we liked and that met the other constraints. Finally, when we found one we liked, we quickly agreed and it was an easy call. Then just wait for the big "day of delivery." Reveal: We had a boy and went with 'George.' (Post hoc discovery: living in LA, I now know to say "George with a G" or else "Jorge" may be written down instead. It's a tiny thing & not a real issue — and kind of funny, tbh.)