After nine months of carrying a child, they enter the world, and the biggest question of all is what do we name it? For some parents, the choice comes very easily and the baby’s name has been thought out and planned for quite some time.  However for the rest of the parents out there, the name is completely spontaneous.  For example naming a child after someone else probably took some thought process and some planning.  For the spontaneous parents, naming their child Houston could just result in the town the child was born in.  It doesn’t matter if someone’s name was planned or spur of the moment; there name could still be very unique and different.

Senior Skye Moore said, “My mom really likes different names.” She not only has a different name, but so do her cousins.  Moore said, “I have cousins with names such as Chance, Stone, Rain, and Lake.”

There are those who just want to come up with an original, never heard of before name.  Take for example sophomore Excellence Carlos. He said, “My dad wanted people to hear my name and think of the excellence in themselves.”

A generation can also say a lot about someone’s name.  Names in the 20’s and 30’s consisted of Anne, Fay, Gertrude, and so on.  Names would differ extremely in the 60’s and 70’s with such like Mary Jane, Summer, Jimmy, Tammy, and so on.  These would rely solely on culture differences in the time period. 

Then there are those people who were named after where they were born.  Freshman Storm Ewing was named after the conditions of the weather at the time of her birth.  She said, “My parents found my name in an old English book, and I just happened to be born in a thunderstorm.”

No matter if a person’s name is very common or very different; they should wonder why did my parents name me this?