How to pick a name for a child
Recently a stranger emailed me to ask how I felt about having my name. She was thinking of naming her son “Rhys” and she wanted to ask a grown-up Rhys was it was like to go through childhood, teenagerdom, young adulthood and full on adulthood with such a name. Was I mocked for it? Respected? I said I loved being a Rhys, so she’s going to name her son Rhys. If I’d described the horrors of being a Rhys, it would have given her pause, to say the least.
So if you’re considering giving your kid a weird name, it might be wise to ask someone else with that name before you go ahead with it. Of course there’s a self-selection bias here because if the name is really bad, everyone who once had that name probably already changed it, so you’re only going to be able to find people who like their name anyway.
So never mind.
3 years ago