[Our man in washington]

Naming kids is hard. You just never know the results.

I was born in 1966.

My parents wanted to give me a name that was a bit unusual. They decided on "Jason". Yes, that really was an unusual name back then.

[arthurus]

Naming kids is hard. You just never know the results

I named my second daughter Dharma. In 1972 there were no others. Now there are scads of them. A couple of years ago she was introduced to someone on the Dharma and Greg TV show who was mystified how she had that name before the show went on.

[dead]

Naming kids is hard. You just never know the results.

My sister’s friend named her daughter Ariel about six months before “The Little Mermaid” was released.

Now she knows she looks like a dingbat who names her kids after trendy Disney characters.