In a previous post I mentioned that I had thrown out a long shot suggestion to my wife as to what we should name our unborn son. I provided this brief clue:
“It was the name of the baker in the Godfather who was bringing flowers to Vito Corleone in the hospital when Michael met him on the stairs.“
While I received a few emails with guesses, nobody hit it on the nose. So the answer as to what the suggested name was (and a nugget of Godfather trivia) is… Enzo. Enzo the baker, with respect to the GF trilogy.
When I …read more

Early on in the process of picking names for our son I threw a name into the mix that my wife did not like. (It was the name of the baker in the Godfather who was bringing flowers to Vito Corleone in the hospital when Michael met him on the stairs. Anyone know the name?) It was not nearly as bad as what the American Idol contestant named her child, but my wife wasn’t pleased, nonetheless.
While it wasn’t a name that I was tied to, it was definitely different and memorable. I like traditional names, but the idea of …read more