How would you name it?

While having an informal talk with a friend, she mentioned that the parents used to name their kids after Gods. That was because when they call their kids in the morning, they will actually be taking name of the God. Smart idea.

When we started to argue on the burning topic - "Name of our kid", we just wanted it to be short and sweet. We had chosen not to find out the sex of the baby beforehand. But we had a hunch that it will be a baby girl. And it was so easy to come up with names for a girl. We had atleast ten in our mind, the tough part was to actually filter out and agree on one. We did, but hey what if it is a boy? It is just too hard to even find one for a boy. We picked one in time though. The origin was "Shaumik", but that was too long and bengalish (not that anything wrong with that:)). So, we took out the 'h' and made it a bit short - "Somik". Do I need to mention that it was a mischievous boy after all beating all our speculation.


I always wondered about some of those interesting email ids. b-l-a-c-k-b-u-c-k, m-a-r-s-i-a-n-m-a-i-d-e-n, s-c-a-v-e-n-g-e-r-s - is that an alter ego? And why not just give an ip address to everyone? A lovely soul responded to my uncanny thought like this:

Fido....IP addresses for names is a wee bit too much even for me so try not to get lost in ur cyberworld. Afterall humans have to be different...!

Well, what's in a name anyway, call me anything. If the tone is right, I will look back and smile for sure. (Inspired by Lily and Sally).

Update: Copying my own comment here:

Boy, if my kid asked me - dadda, what is the true meaning of my name? What would I say - I dont know? No way, dadda has an answer for everything you ask kiddie. Here is my attempt:

somik = som + ik
som = moon in hinduism, e.g. somnath - master of the moon (More at wikipedia)
ik = ness (More here)
Somik = Moonness (adjective, Having characterestics of the moon).

Not bad:)