- veto names of dickheads I knew.
Of course, I know good people with those names too but that wasn't the deciding factor.
I simply didn't want my kids name to be associated with a dickhead in my own mind in any way, shape or form.
Very me-centric I guess but I wanted the best personal relationship with my kid.
One of my favourites were Vidkun, which fell off a cliff in the mid-forties.
(Vidkun being the first name of our head collaborationist honcho during the Nazi occupation - his last name may be known to you. Quisling. Yup, he coined the phrase 'Quisling' for a traitor and even had a verb - to quisle, for committing treason - enter the English language.)
It's a shame that Isis (the Egyptian goddess) is now associated to the Islamic State. It's a beautiful name.
What hit me hard about your comment is that I know a bunch of couples who have kids with my name, and it's not a common name. I will sleep happier today :)