Okay, I confess…I do tend to be a bit of a name critic. On my blog I even have a “name of the week”…..well....it is more the name of…...until I change it.
On night my husband told me to look up the roster for the St. Johns basketball team. I’m a bit predictable for him. He asked me to read the names to him, I read the first one and then I paused…and he started laughing.
The first one, plain and simple and others are somewhat common. Ones you have heard before.
“God’s Gift”….yes a child is a gift from God of that I have no doubt. Why though name your child that? Surely you could find a name that means the same and go with that. 
Sir’Dominic….well…makes me think the mother couldn’t decide what pizza she liked best when she was pregnant. “Sir Pizza or Dominos”, and his dad was “Nick”.
I don’t know what people think these days when naming their children. A name is really something that is pretty important. That child has to live with that name, and the harassment that it could bring.
I find it rather hard to believe that those two did not get picked on while they were growing up.
Sometimes I think that the hospitals give out “Boggle” games to expectant parents and they just shake them up and whatever comes out is what the kid gets stuck with!
I can remember sitting at the kitchen table with my dad one day. I asked him why they named us with such plain names. My oldest sister was named, Sally, the middle daughter is Judy and I am Janet. You can’t get much simpler than those names. His reply was “we named you what you were going to be called”.
My father is one of 9 children, and he is named after his father so he was called “Jack” rather than “John”. Of the 9 only my Uncle Lowell was never dubbed with a nickname, or called a shortened version of their name, or known by their middle name.
I wish more parents would think long and hard when naming their children. There is nothing wrong with giving your child a unique name, but, there is a difference between unique and “God’s Gift”…I would not want to be named something you can type into Google and get images of peoples tattoos with my name – I’m just saying!
So, thank you mom and dad, I love you and miss you both dearly and am 
grateful for my plain and simple name. Janet – “God is gracious”
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