Naming babies is hard work! Now, it can also be fun. Especially when you come up with names like Wayne & Dwayne. While Cleaker 1 and Cleaker 2 are the official names of our lovely little twins (whatever sex they may be), Wayne & Dwayne is what I have taken to affectionately calling our future children. Don’t you just like the ring of it?
“Oh….look at cute little Dwayne!’
“Oh sweetie – come look at what little Wayne is doing right now!”
I think it’s great. Sarah on the other hand…not so much. But we do have fun coming up with potential names. I think my favorite moment so far was when I suggested “Gianna” as a name for a girl. I don’t know – it kind of had a nice ring to it. The first thing Sarah said was, “What? That’s a hooker’s name!”
I proceeded to get very defensive, claiming that Gianna was in fact NOT a hooker’s name, and to prove it, I decided to Google “Gianna.” And then I was able to prove to Sarah that…oh. Wait. Damn. The first link was to Gianna Michaels’s website. And Gianna Michaels most certainly IS a porn star.
So…Gianna was out. (**see the end of the post**)
One of the other things that I feel pretty strongly about is that whatever name we decide to go with – there has to be an open domain URL for that name. So, if we decide that Dwayne Walker Cleaveland is going to be the name, if www.dwaynewalkercleaveland.com is taken…we’re going to have to go back to the drawing board. Same with Twitter usernames and Facebook vanity usernames. These are important people…
Picking a baby name used to be so much easier. You liked Jane Smith? Great. Go with it. But there’s no way I’d want to name a girl Jane Smith these days, because you know she’d end up with something horrible like www.janesmith2010cuddlybear16.com for her domain name, and that’s not going to help her make the Varsity lacrosse team or get into an Ivy league university, is it?
Well – we’re going to have fun with it – and we’re going to pick wonderful names for these little Cleakers. But they’ll always be little Dwayne & Wayne to me.
**If you named your child Gianna – or know a Gianna who is a wonderful person – I hope this portion of the post doesn’t offend you. I still think it’s a pretty sounding name…just, not a name for the Cleakers as it turns out.**
Sarah Hooker says
Tell Sarah thanks for the suggestion. Gianna will definitely go on our list for future baby Hooker names when we need it.
Dazed Dad says
I passed that on – and she enjoyed it 😉
Big Daddy says
Names just fell into place for us. Oddly enough we were watching Dracula when decided on our little overlords name.
Dazed Dad says
Huh – maybe I’ll suggest that to Sarah and I see if she wants to watch that – maybe it will work for us too.
Caitlin says
If you do advanced search on http://www.babynames.com/, you can choose names by what they mean. I do this all the time for my stories.
Holly says
Ya know Adam, a Gianna used to go to youth group and went to Granada. I thought she was there when you came…and she is most def not a porn star so it can be a perfectly good name lol
Dazed Dad says
Oh – THAT’S where the name is familiar to me. Yes, I think she did come once….and you’re right, she was nice.
See – not ALL Giannas are like the one I found when I googled the name….
Karen says
Actually one of the sweetest girls I ever taught was Gianna. Sweet and shy—definitely not anyone I’d associate with a hooker!
Dazed Dad says
Yah – I don’t think it’s a BAD name, but Sarah didn’t approve.
So….
There you go.
lee says
One tip, If you aren’t settled on a name 100% be careful giving it out before a baby shower, or else you might get some blankets with names you’ve mentioned embroidered on them, then you’re stuck! Good luck!