Ok, My sons name is very long, but it has a meaning behind it and that is why I stand by my decision to name hime that.
His name is William C. Joseph-Marion
The william C. is after my grandmother, her name is willie c.(and I refused to have him stuck with the name willie as an adult male, it just doesn't seem right to me so I went with william)
Joseph-Marion is his middle name and Joseph is my great gandfathers name and Marion is my granfathers name.
I want my son to remeber that were ever he goes and what ever he puts his name on, he is repesenting a lineage of strong African-Americans.
Many wonder why I name him afeter my grandmother and that is because she is one of the strongest women I know. She passed away when I was in the third grade and I can remeber every year how we still celebrated her birthday and my mother has always instilled in me how strong and good of a person she was.
Also my son is the first male born into my maternal family in five generations that is why I want him to know that he is surrounded by a strong family and every time he writes his name he will know that
And for the record. He will be four in Decembert and he can spel his first name outloud and is currently working on writing it. He can also say his full name for all of you out their who think that that is too long of a name for a child to learn
Now to the idea of taking letters out of a bag and just making up a name....it is ridiculous. No child should have to be called alaze' for the rest of her life. Think of how that name woiuld bother this child if she was a teacher and the class was dicussing name orgins. Orif she was a minister or evangilist. That is just to ghetto and not cute at all. Strong african names are another thing however, they have a meaning behind them.
Whatever the case just be sure to set down and remeber that this child will one day be an aduly working for a company wearing siuts and heels on a daily basis, you don't want her/him to be stuck with Alaze or some STUPID name because you thought it was cute for a 3 week old child. Children grow up and they are stuck with and become what their name mean many times. Make sure it has a rich and friutfull meaning behind it.
Now I'm stepping off my soapbox.
[This message has been edited by blu_theatrics (edited October 25, 2000).]