Today was Jachin’s 8th birthday. What a cutie. He got a new bike that is too huge for him, but he manages to ride it anyway. He also got the standard favorite: lego sets. We had a BBQ on our new deck, overlooking our rock and dirt backyard and hung out with family. It was great. In honor of Jachin’s birthday, I though I’d do a post about the origin of his awesome name.

No one ever, ever knows how to say my son’s name.  We get “Jay-shin”, “Jack-in”,”Jeng-kin”, “Jay-sheen”… all kinds of really exotic sounding pronounciations. Maybe I should have heeded my grandmother’s warning while I was pregnant: “You’re going to name him what?!? He’ll be spelling that to people his whole life!” And indeed, he does. But his name has a meaning; a cool meaning, in fact. In other words: no, we did not make it up. It’s biblical in origin. (It is also, according to a Google search, a town in Alabama.) I think it’s an incredibly strong name and a good name. As far as the pronounciation, I just started saying to people, “Jachin…. like ‘bacon’.”

Jachin hates this helpful rhyme. I’m not sure why. He likes to eat bacon. I told him it could be worse; his name could rhyme with “sausage”… that would be really weird and not nearly as cool. Between bacon and sausage, bacon is hands-down the cooler breakfast meat.

I love you, Jachin. Happy Birthday, sweetie.

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1. It’s a unique name. I think the “Jachin, like bacon” is cute, too. I hope he had a very happy birthday.

   When I was pregnant with Julia, I was working in admissions for a college. I spent a lot of time with High School seniors and I’d always tell them the names I was considering and they would tell me how they would alter it into a nickname or use it to make fun of a kid. That helped me narrow it down. The best they could do with Julia was Julia Gulia. I thought she could handle that.

   Comment by Leslie — May 29, 2007 @ 6:55 am

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