The Name

~ Clarissa

After a protracted search, N has come up with a name for our future son:

Eric Norbert.

“Eric” is a name he likes phonetically and “Norbert” is the name of some famous mathematician. And they both go with the last name.

A name database says that Eric is a name of somebody who loves travel and adventure and rejects traditions and conventions. I think that’s a great identity to have.

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45 thoughts on “The Name”

  1. Nice! Congratulations, Clarissa! Eric’s not a bad name at all. Short, sweet and to the point and easy for everyone to pronounce. I get annoyed when people spell or say my last name incorrectly. It’s pronounced SEV-ER-EENO and it’s apparently Italian even though my parents are Dominican. I heard that someone in my family actually has some type of inheritance in Italy or something like that.

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    1. Nobody can pronounce my last name correctly, irrespective of their language or country of origin. 🙂 So I had to get used to have it mangled. The reason is that it isn’t a real last name and was created to conceal the Ukrainian origins of my grandparents in the USSR.

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  3. Congratulations! Did you know that the first link, if you google Eric is

    ERIC homepage, the Education Resources Information Center, is the world’s largest digital library of education literature.

    ?

    Seems to suit. 🙂

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    1. I have to say, I didn’t know about the beavers. Hmmm. . . On the one hand, they are a Canadian symbol, so that’s good. But on the other hand they are less cool than, say, tigers. 🙂

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  8. Norbert is an excellent choice for a second name. Eric, in my judgment is not a good first choice name.. It is a common name without any class to it. It is a widely used blue-collar name. Yet it would be hard for a young man to call himself Norbert as his chosen name.

    I encourage N to think again. Winston, for example, is much more classy. And would go with any surname that the boy must inherit.

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    1. I would have preferred Oliver but this wasn’t my decision. Winston is a very good name but are people likely to shorten it to Winnie?

      There are so many beautiful names that are slaughtered with ugly diminutives. Andrew, Samuel, James.

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      1. I hope it doesn’t turn out to be a popular name in his generation. These days, every other male student in my classes is Kevin and every other female student is Kayla or Ashley (Ashlee). Normally, people want to feel more unique.

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    2. I know several people with dogs named Winston in the U.S. – I think the name is seen as more pretentious than classy here. Eric is a lovely name, and certainly not associated with being “low class” in the U.S.

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  10. I love the name Eric! And Norbert is a very sturdy middle name. As someone who cherishes both my first and middle name, I know how important it is for them to both fit. 🙂 They go nicely together.
    I already have a name system picked out for my children. I’m partial to the names Zora, Ariel, or Celeste for a girl, and Leonard, Brennan, or Rowan for a boy. I like the idea of picking a middle name based on a beloved fictional character. Zora Minerva? Leonard Orlando? Names are so fun, but oh so important.

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  11. My two best friends from high school (with whom I am still very close) are named Eric and my dad’s middle name is Norbert, so needless to say I love the name you chose!

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      1. Not common at all in the US. I think I had one student whose name was Eric.

        I should also mention that both my Eric friends are now happy, funny, brilliant, kind, and successful adults. Definitively a good name.

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