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What is in a name? Number?

When we wanted to name our son, we did a Cntrl C Cntrl V (Cut-Paste) from our names and made up a name and thought that we had come out with a brilliant idea. The Cut-Paste worked well for us to get to a name that was (a) very simple, (b) easy to spell, with just five alphabets. No surname just the name. By the way we did get his passport also with just his name! SU nilna MIT a It is another thing that it was not very visible that our names was hidden in our son's name so we had to tell people we knew specifically how we had named our son. While some said we were lazy, some others took a cue and tried to name their new born the same way. So there were some compliments and there were some jeer. When we told our son about the way he was named, he insisted that he was not sure he liked his name!  However as far as I was concerned. I was under this illusion that we had done a great job by thinking of a CntrlC-CntrlV name. This was some twelve years ago. My twel