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<\/a><\/p>\nThanks to the well over 10,000 people who voted in our baby name poll, we’ve chosen the perfect name for our new baby – Athena Marie Morrison.<\/p>\n
Those of you who have been following this story might be a bit surprised at the name choice, since Olivia was leading the poll for girls’ names<\/a>.\u00a0 But the very, very few readers who managed to make their way<\/a> through my boring (but educational) statistics posts<\/a> will remember that Ann and I controlled for popularity, hoping to pick a name that was loved by our voters but still reasonably unique and interesting.<\/p>\n We took three names that our voters liked better than could be explained by general popularity in 2007 – Cassia, Ada, and Athena – and waited to see which name would fit her best.<\/p>\n Since our baby was born with her eyes open, perceptive and looking very thoughtful, we thought it was appropriate to name her for the goddess of wisdom.<\/p>\n Thanks again to all the family, friends, Googlers, and random internet strangers who voted.<\/p>\n If you’d like to keep following Athena’s first days on the planet, you can follow me on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n For photos (a few now, and hundreds more as soon as we get home), feel free to friend me on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you’d like to read more about web design, usability, and doing crazy social experiments with the internet, please subscribe to my blog feed<\/a> or subscribe via email<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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