As many of you know, we spent quite some time searching for the “perfect” name for our baby girl.
Our last post, Naming our baby part 2, garnered a lot of attention. Apparently, the author of the Freakonomics book commented on it as well.
We were overwhelmed by all the response, and went through each one of the comment carefully before we settled on Lauren Alexandra Wang.
We don’t believe that we’d go wrong with any of the final candidates. For a detailed explanation of our the selection methodology to get to the final candidates, please refer to the Naming our baby part 2 post.
There were many good tidbits of information in your comments. We decided to settle on Lauren Alexandra Wang because it rolls off the tongue quite nicely. It also has a timeless feel to it. Both my parents and JY’s parents can pronounce it without much difficulty (they are no non-native speakers of English), although they think Alexandra is a bit long for their taste. According to the statistics on the Social Security Administration’s website, both Lauren and Alexandra are fairly common names, however, we don’t personally know anyone named Lauren, so it’s should not be a problem telling her apart from the other kids.
The name Stephen Dubner recommended, Lucienne Rachel is a great sounding name as well. We did have two concerns though. First of which is Lucienne is a bit hard to spell and pronounce for the baby and her caretakers. And secondly, we are afraid people will shorten it by calling her Lucy instead, which is not as great a name.
Atara and Aviva are both very nice sounding middle-names, however, we think they are a bit too unconventional. We want our daughter’s personality to attract people’s attention, not her name 😉
Thank you all for your help. We’ll have pictures of Lauren Alexandra Wang as soon as she’s born.