What's in a Name?

So, I think we have finally decided upon a middle name for the baby. With our oldest, Mr. TC and I were in total agreement and had a name picked out approximately 20 seconds after learning the gender. This time? Notsomuch.

Part of the problem is that I have lots of rules for baby names. Nothing trendy. Nothing that contains extraneous "Y"s. Because our last name begins with an R, nothing that ends in an R. No first names that would rhyme with our last name. No monograms that spell words or common acronyms. Must have an acceptable, preferrably one syllable nickname (because our last name is so very, very long...four, count 'em FOUR syllables). Those are just off the top of my head. There are even more rules. And that's before we even start to consider Mr. TC's opinions.

Even though we have arrived at a name at long last, I probably won't use it on the blog. This has given me something of a dilemma. I've been calling our oldest boy "TCP Baby" or "TCP Toddler" for the past couple of years. But now there will be two of them. I could go with Eldest and Youngest. #1 and #2 (although, that somehow strikes me as bad in an Austin Powers-Dr. Evil way).

Or I could plug their real names into the Blogthings Preppy Name Generator and come up with Pseudonyms for them...

For the new baby:

Your Preppy Name Is: Foxhall Godfrey Vanderbilt the Sixth

But most people know you as Tipper

What's Your Preppy Name?

and

Your Preppy Name Is: Creighton Wyndham Pratt the Fourth

But most people know you as Tad

And I could go by TCP or this:

Your Preppy Name Is: Stockton Cannon Barrington the Sixth

But most people know you as Cricket

What's Your Preppy Name?