I dreamed last night that I had a baby unexpectedly, didn’t-know-I-was-pregnant style, and it was a girl, and of course I hadn’t had my usual eight months or so of thinking about baby names. And, as is the way dreams go, I couldn’t find a baby name book, and I couldn’t gather my thoughts properly, and I kept getting distracted by other things.<\/p>\n
BUT, in the dream, the first name that came to my mind was Josephine. Then, as I scrambled to think of more options, I came up with Rose and then Genevieve. Those are all actual names from my actual baby-girl-name lists, but not necessarily in order of which names I would actually use on an actual baby girl, so I was interested to see which names my dream-brain accessed first.<\/p>\n
What I am wondering is: If you had a baby girl to name, right now, unexpectedly, what names spring FIRST to your mind (and\/or after a very short delay, as in my dream)? You’ll have to play this game FAST to avoid contaminating the results, but you can ignore names that spring to your mind if they’re names you dislike.<\/p>\n
(If you are in any way similar to me temperament-wise, you will need to be reassured: this is only a game; the names don’t actually have to work with your surname or with sibling names or with what the other parent would want; none of this is in any way binding; the point of this game is to see which of the names you like come first to your mind.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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