Shucks. You all are sure helpful. A name for the unborn is on the horizon. On Sunday night before the food poisoning set in, before the morning spent in L&D getting my veins poked and blown, before confirming that the baby and I would both survive, Joe devised a name game to settle this headache.
We each got 100 voting points and a ballot with the top five names. Ajax was not mentioned and for that I thank you. The rules were that each name had to get at least ten points and no one name could get more than fifty. And off we ran to our corners.
Some old contenders resurfaced for the final showdown. And Luke was no longer of interest to Joe. Just wasn't, end of story. I now reveal the results to you.
Abe 40
Henry 50
Jack 35
Charles 55
Isaac 20
Doesn't that make Charles look like the winner? Alas, he is not. It's Henry because Charles is only good to us as Charlie and never as Charles, Chuck or Chaz. Whereas Henry is palatable to us in all forms. And it's older and dignified and less bland than Charles in our minds.
Ta-da, a name has been born. From second place we bring you Henry our Second.
As for those of you who mentioned Ben and Sam, both names I dig, they are out of contention due to living family members with the same names. It's a small family and we can't go stealing each others names while said members are still in good health.
And remember to ALWAYS take with you droppings.
http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
henry is gaining in popularity in the U.S. as well.
i second the veto of "charles" -- charles is too formal, charlie too young, chaz only fits a few people, chuck is too pukey, etc.
Posted by: anne | April 26, 2006 at 03:16 PM
Love it!!!Really love it. And goodness I am glad you are okay( and Henry too).Hope you are feeling better!
Posted by: maria | April 26, 2006 at 03:20 PM
Holy crap- what did you eat? That must have been so scary (and painful). I hope you are feeling better. Ugh....yucky, yucky.
Henry is a wonderful name - as is Hank. So is is he going to be Henry Ajax ?? ;-)
Love you.
Posted by: MommaK | April 26, 2006 at 09:01 PM
Yea for Henry! Congrats on a successful name game...I'll have to keep that system in mind.
Hope you are feeling better.
Posted by: Heidi | April 27, 2006 at 12:02 AM
Food poisoning? Oh my goodness. It sounds scary!!
Henry is a wonderful choice. A classic. You can't go wrong with a classic, handsome name!
Posted by: Marie | April 27, 2006 at 05:05 AM
Love the name, too. A boy name was easy for us... girl names not so much. We ended up using one suggested from a family member.
Hope you're feeling better! How frightening!
Posted by: Jill | April 27, 2006 at 09:27 AM
middle name? Henry is excellent.
Posted by: jess | April 27, 2006 at 03:54 PM
Yay! So Henry it is. Eli's younger bro. *grin*
Hope you are okay now, and Henry too for that matter. YOur poor thing you!
Posted by: Melody | April 27, 2006 at 10:07 PM
Wait a minute! Did you know that Hortense was pretty popular as a name until about 1940, when it dropped off the radar? How about Hortense? Start a movement.
Atta girl.
(No? How about Benjamin? See, it's not the same as Ben.)
OK. Go to http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html. Fuss around there for awhile.
Posted by: Old Horsetail Snake | April 28, 2006 at 12:26 AM
Link doesn't work. Pish.
Posted by: Old Horsetail Snake | April 28, 2006 at 12:27 AM
As I mentioned beforre, I adore the name Henry.
Woo-hoo!
We call our dog Charlie, Cha-chi...or at least we used to when we were new dog-owners. Now we call her Charlie or Char. Creative, huh?
Posted by: raehan | April 28, 2006 at 05:32 AM
ahhh well you know I am VERY partial to Henry! *smile*
Posted by: Elizabeth | April 29, 2006 at 03:33 AM