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Welcome everyone to this edition of Amy and T.J. And for parents out there or soon to be

parents out there, the name you give your child is probably one of the most important decisions

you make in your life, wouldn't you say?

How much time did you spend coming up with Sabine's name?

A year.

Really?

I could probably find the file somewhere in front of me in computer, but I had a full list of

boy names, girl names.

Had mostly girl names, struggled with boy names, but I had a lot of them. She was almost an Adele. Almost Adele. Yeah. Or Ripley. Ripley. Yeah. Believe it or not. Ripley Holmes. You see Sabine now as Ripley? Sherlock is her middle name. Adele Holmes. That's like a, that's a weak direction to go. Like that's just an old, it's not even funny. It's lazy robes. It's lazy. What did you do? How did you go about trying to find the name? Every time I heard one, I like throw it down. Period. That's it. And she's named now after a German tennis player because I was watching a match. And her name is Sabine Lachitsky, I believe, is what her name is. And she even tweeted me back one time because I said, yeah, there's her namesake playing. And she was like, what the hell? Yeah. That's so funny. Sabine is named after a German tennis player, period. So it's funny.

I actually knew I wanted to give both of my children who ended up both being girls,

obviously German names because I knew they were going to get their dad's last name,

which was Scottish.

And I thought that was a way for me to bring my heritage into them.

So I looked for German names. And that's how I came up with Ava and Annalise. But I went online and I was searching. Oh, yeah. Girl, German names trying to find or get some sort of inspiration. Oh, wow. Yeah. No? No, to think about Googling a kid's name, like, I'm looking for some ideas for this child I'm caring. Let me go to the internet. I don't think Google was around, though, actually.

22 years ago? Yeah, yeah. I have to go check that out. I don't know how I did, but I was like

looking up, I was buying books, baby name books, that kind of a thing. But there is a resource

that has been around since after Ava was born in 2004,

Baby Center has been publishing top baby names now for more than 20 years. And you can go into

the Social Security Administration. They have a list of names that come out every year as well.

I think that's the one I'm used to. What the hottest baby names.

Now, Baby Center claims they have a jump on Social Security Administration

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