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I have a profound obsession with names. Although I don’t intend to become pregnant anytime this decade, I am constantly collecting potential names for my theoretical progeny, and I’m crestfallen whenever one of them becomes fashionable. I watch the trends studiously, and always try to guess people’s names based on appearance. My preferred method of avoiding writing involves poring over baby name books and the lists of most popular names from the last century, ostensibly to find the perfect names for my characters. The process of naming my characters, in fact, affords me vastly more pleasure than the actual writing. I can’t explain this obsession, and I expect it’s probably a kind of sickness, but there it is.

Maud directs our attention to McSweeney’s, where we can find a pair of humorous name-related pieces by Stephany Aulenback. Re: “Words That Would Make Nice Names for Babies, if it Weren’t for Their Unsuitable Meanings,” I know someone who thinks Diarrhea is a beautiful name for a girl.

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I think “Malaise” would be a nice name for a girl. Or perhaps “Retina.”

Also, I, too, am known to procrastinate/obsess over names. As someone whose name - first name, last name, or both names in combination - is frequently seen, I sometimes long for something more unusual. I now particularly covet names that would be good “author names,” which mine is not. At the same time, though, I benefit from a protective anonymity when Googled. There are simply too many others of me out there.

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