Tobias, Josiah, Zachary, Dashiell - apparently none of these suited my biggun of a nephew and the name my sister and her wife have settled on is: Henry. What? It caught me off guard.
When we were little my dad used to make up these stories about two friends named Henry and Mabel...Mabel was also my nickname as a child and I have been open about wanting to name my daughter that, but I didn't think my sister was so intensely connected to the stories' hero.
Apparently, Henry is a family name on both sides of my sister-in-laws family - it goes back several generations on her dad's side and her mom is distantly related to Henry David Thoreau.
So, he's named.
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I have a tiny cousin in chattanooga also named Henry. Apparently, his parents chose the name because it was in the top 5 boys names of the 1920s, and NOT because they admired Henry Kissinger. I asked. Congratulations, Aunt Maura!
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