Painful eliminations
Julian, Tarkin, Eli, Seth, and Max are outta here. So is Quinn. We did like that name, but my cousin Emily just gave birth and named her new son that.
We need to have a talk with that whole branch of the clan. They’re the reason Gareth wasn’t named Alex and why we were never able to consider Emily as a name should we have discovered we were gestating a female. And now they took Quinn.
Two more possibilities have reared their meddling heads: Rhys and Colin. We’ve been warned that going with the traditional spelling on Rhys (versus “Reese”) will cause mass confusion, but honestly, the world somehow gets by with John Rhys-Davies, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, and Rhys Fulber in existence. If you’re not a fan of Front Line Assembly, that last one probably doesn’t seem very relevant. If you are a fan, please explain to me why you haven’t told me sooner. That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of good Colins, but let’s face it - you either say it “Collin” or “Coelin”. There’s not much variation.
The real problem here is that none of the names we’ve come across have had the same lightning strike that we had with Gareth. Do we owe it to our second child to come up with a name that everybody can pronounce and spell? Not really as that wouldn’t be fair to Garth Garrett Gary Gareth.