Eric Is A Magnetic Name

A name is a person's identity and at the same time, the cause of family feud. We have a new member in the family. You see, my sister recently got herself pregnant. Needless to say, we now have a new baby to look after. There's no worry about his future because I know we can afford to raise another crime-abiding citizen. But the dilemma here is we can't decide for the kid's name.

My mom suggested that we should baptize the kid Eric, like her favorite character, Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) of X-Men. Forgive me, but my mom really got this nasty sense of humor. As you can see, we got so many Erics in history. We got Eric Ambler, a British author of crime novels; Eric Partridge an English lexicographer; Eric Williams, prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago; and Eric Sevareid, a journalist and writer for Columbia Broadcasting System.

Considering this fact, I made a quick Internet search to look for the meaning of the controversial name. According to Google, it's a name from the Old Norse that means "ever ruler". My sister who should be the responsible for deciding on the baby's name told us to stop it with the maddening confusion. According to her, she'll just name the kid Ericsson because that's the brand of her mobile phone.