What's in a name?

What's in a name?

This question hangs around most of us when coming across various names we see with people, websites, blogs and wherever we interact with all sorts of people in the community, be it at school, college, university, workplace, public or private enterprise, to name a few.

The impending thoughts expressed here does not restrict to demographic boundaries viz. American, European, British, Mid-West or Mid-East Arabian, Center-West or Center-East, South Asian, South-East Asian or Far-East Asian, last but not the least Australasian geographies, sentiments or naming conventions.

When we want to name a person at time of his birth, we look for the concerned family's antecedents, both paternal and maternal sides to search for suitable names, leave alone the immediate couple-parents' personal wishes considered or not.

Naming a child, boy or girl - leaving aside trans-genders for the time being - is at times a hectic task for the child's parents. If they would like to name the child according to their own discretion, they are blamed by elders as if they take undue liberty and forgo their elderly hegemony, which otherwise the latter would have applied discreetly.

More so, religious sentiments, customary habits, family hierarchical antecedents, pertinent instances of popular perceptions, conformance to naming patterns pertaining to nameology as well as numerology,  above all, populist compulsions takes top most priority in one's decision-making; it doesn't end there for the child. Depending on what happens going forward in the child's life-span, that decision by the parents when naming the child, results in a bane or boon for the child.

Once it grows, over the years, age-no-bar, at some point in time during the child's school or college days, he or she might come across, and, would have to face all sorts of embarrassments and shortcomings;  the child faces enormous amount of frustration; at times this situation can result in unprecedented or unwarranted loss of life too. It's no exaggeration indeed.

Leave alone the foretold family naming convention or traditional socio-cultural, religious or customary compulsions, in certain geographies specially in Asian Continent, one has to consider the birth chart at time of the child's birth in terms of astrology, nameology or numerology as to what these methodologies dictate the proverbial naming process for the child, for,  the method or logic applied when naming the child for sure  impacts the futuristic life pattern of the growing child, in terms of health and safe well-being and these indirectly affects the child's academic pursuits. An efficient upbringing by the parents becomes the foremost ingredient and this thus formalizes the child's characteristics, psychological, physiological, spiritual and mental growth and well-being.

(To be concluded)