What's in a Name

I have a firm belief that a name should be uncommon - unique if possible; mellifluous - easy on the tongue and ear; and have a meaning that one would want to be associated with the child when he/she grows up.

The friggin problem is that this triad does not have an intersection set. Atman, Samyak, Aarjav; we kind of ensured that intersection set kept getting smaller and smaller. And now, I can't find a good name (Nidhi, Meena, Siddhi, Khyati, Sonia, Preetesh, Jignesh, Amit etc are not acceptable names).

To compound my woes, I still have no clue if i'm going to be a father to a beautiful girl or to a handsome boy. So I have to search for two names.

This post is about my search for the illusive intersection set of the paradoxical triad.

The first thing to do is visit sites like babynames, babycenter, or aggregators like babypost best baby names sites and more such stuff at the end of which one will realize that the endeavour was as fruitful as the Congress campaign in the Delhi state elections.

So you start looking at Armenian names. And slowly it moves to Arabic, Aafrikans, Russian, Slavic, and Nordic names.You scavenge and scour the deep dark recesses of the internet but every time leave the damp, dim, dusty minefields with empty hands, a heavy heart, and the desperation of a cornered animal.

And so, in an act of ultimate surrender, you invoke the 'Bhramastra'. You turn to crowd sourcing and ask family and friends to help with names in the hope that one of them will hit the bulls eye. You beg, plead, borrow, bribe, do everything within your power to get them to help you.  

But you can't leave something as important as this to chance or hope or some body else. And as a result, you finally realise that there is no substitute to hard work and embark upon the ultimate brute force test of your life and use this resource (Beware: the link points to a 10,000 page 254 mb Sanskrit dictionary pdf document that yours truly has been poring through in search of that ever elusive perfect name).

In case someone has the perfect name please do comment, help, name your price, whatever.