what do you think of the name Isak?

With just three days left before the due date, we thought we'd get your opinions on a new option in the boys category. Maiken is our favorite girl name, and we think we have a good alternative with Ingrid.

Isak is a name with many meanings for us. For Anne, she likes that it means son of joy or he who laughs (as in the divine joke); and she wrote her dissertation on Scandinavian authors Isak Dinesen and Knut Hamsun. I associate the name with Isak, the first man who walked a path through the commons, in Knut Hamsun's Markens Grøde (Growth of the Soil), a new favorite of mine.

Although the name might sound old or old fashioned, we think the name has a lot of spirit and could fit a spunky, active, energetic little boy—which accurately describes the personality of the baby as we imagines it, how it feels to Anne in her belly.

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two new polls

We added new polls for boy and girl names. We're struggling to narrow down the lists. So vote and have your say and leave a comment with your thoughts.