Let's recap ... Crystal and I in an effort to decide on a name for a boy setup a March Madness style bracket of 16 names and let about 200 of our friends and family on Google+ vote on them. Hilarity and good times were had, and in the end we came upon the name Ian James Partridge should the baby be a boy.
People so enjoyed the whole thing that we were asked by some to do a girl name bracket, even though we'd already picked a girl name (quite easily in fact ... like it took an entire 5 minutes of discussion). We decided "why not?!" and setup another bracket of 16 names - with our chosen name thrown into the mix) to see what would happen. We made sure to make mention that we have a name chosen already, so the winning name is just for entertainment purposes only.
Crystal didn't know it (until she read this post for the 1st time) that I had in-advance clued in our friend Obi Debo (who during this whole baby name bracket process found out that we'd like him to be the baby's Godfather) about one of the names in the list - Harley Lynn ala Harley Quinn, the Joker's girlfriend in the Batman universe - because he's got a particular soft spot for the character. I thought he might want to have something fun in store.
Once the bracket was posted, Obi reshared our voting post to a larger Google+ audience pushing for everyone to vote for Harley Lynn in the Sweet Sixteen and Great Eight rounds of voting. During the Great Eight round, however, a discussion took place between him & Crystal on his post that brought to light the fact that if our baby was named Harley then he wouldn't be able to use the name on any potential children of his own. At this point, Harley's neck-and-neck race ended and her competition - Kaylee - pulled ahead to a comfortable win.
Here's how the voting went down ...
In the end, the triumphant name was Amelia as in Amelia (Amy) Pond on "Doctor Who". Most interesting to us though was that our chosen name made it all the way to the final round and lost by only ONE VOTE. This of course made us really excited - like a form of validation that we'd done a good job. So ... if our baby is a girl (and we'll find out in about 6 weeks at the next ultrasound), she'll be named Kaylee Anne Partridge - Anne is my mother's middle name.
We both absolutely love Kaylee Frye on "Firefly"! She's adorable ... wicked smart with machines ... not afraid to get her hands dirty yet is very much a girly girl ... can be completely innocent and yet not so innocent at the same time. Like I said ... it took us all of maybe five minutes to decide on this name. We're thrilled so many of our friends agree!
In the end this entire baby name bracket idea has been a ton of fun. We HIGHLY recommend this to anyone looking for a creative way to name your baby. If anyone reading this is considering doing the same, please let us know! We'd love to hear about it! Also ... if you need help with setting up your own voting using Google Forms just ask me and I'd be glad to help.
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