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Luca De Somere

What´s in a name? Well seeing as you are stuck with it all your life, then quite a lot rides on what your parents decide to call you.  And what a stressful choice it can be to make! In our case most of the stress came before  our little one was born, well it was my stress, tim had no stress at all!  For 8 months i was so sure i was having  girl that i did not give boys name a thought.  Then in month 9 doubt began to creep in, not least because many people who were good at this prediction stuff said it was a boy….in fact nearly everyone did.  Still it took me until 5 days before D day to actually face facts and start to research and call out boys names to my beloved husband.  Before that i had one boys name i liked, but tim did not, so we were basically starting from scratch.

A friend later asked if it was true that we had no name for the new arrival for 2 days, and that in the end we let Alina name him….and yes in a way that is exactly what happened.

As the world probably knew, i was  very stressed because i had no boy names in the last week, we had a few choices for girls, but nothing for a boy.  However the day before I went into hospital I was thinking we have a few good choices for boys names but i am not sure about for girls…luckily we did not need to worry about that.  The night before we went into hospital was also the night that Tim made a concession - he told me that maybe Luca was not such a bad name and it could be added back to the list - he had said no since i decided it was the name i preferred.  So our final list and the reason for his name is:

Andreas - this was the final name on the short list with Luca, Alina went with Luca.

Vincent - Tim´s  favourite.  Problem was every Irish person who heard the name said Vinnie, which i did not like.

Ben - i really like this name, tim only liked it.  In the end we thought it was a bit popular.

Oscar - love it, but I know quite a few Oscars and would have liked something more original.

Marius - original and lovely name, but did not suit our little man

We had previously disregarded Edgar and Lawrence.

Luca - I initially loved Lucas, but thought it was a bit common and when i thought about Luca, I preferred that.  It is strong, not common, the same in every language, and goes well with De Somere and Alina.  A friend of ours son is named Luca so this was how I knew the name.  My one doubt when I saw him, is that Luca is an Italian name, and our son looked quite definitely Irish.  But now I love his full name, and think it suits him perfectly.

So on Thursday I was thinking about  both Andreas and Luca , and sometimes Vincent, Ben and Oscar!  I preferred Luca, and Tim was happy with that, but I was not 100% until Alina came in and met him.  We gave her two names, she immediately said “Cuca” and the rest as they say is history.

Now we only need to finalise his second name…..:-)