What'S iN a nAme?

How does the naming process proceed in the face of a new child?

Found myself thinking hard about this today- like: what would I do? I've always been a proponent of the original name, the luxuriant, exotic name, the name that allows the bearer to carve her own identity.
But events of the last year have brought me to the side of those who give their kids (or traces, as a famous singer in my country once described them to me... that they were traces of himself) a grandmother's name, or a family surname that went dark eons ago, or the name of someone unknown personally but regarded as heroic in the world. So I'm starting to feel like any little ones coming into our family should have at least one ancestral name.
After all they went through, after all that has been given, I've come to the conclusion that it's not only important, but necessary. It's like "I want to knit this little being, from jump, into the framework of how I want them to grow. I want them to see, in a very real way, the pattern to follow."

I'm also starting to think, for the first time, about leaving my own trace.