Your child’s name shouldn’t make people laugh or cry.
A postal worker told me she named her daughters Lexus and Kia, which tells you who her favorite is right away.
And when I was in Romania, a mom tried to doom her child by naming him bin Laden. She chose the name because she kept hearing it repeatedly on CNN and figured he must be important. An English-speaking nurse refused to sign the birth certificate until the name was changed to something I can’t pronounce.
More recently, a family in Israel decided to name their child “Like” after the Facebook button...
