Baby name opinion....

you're just setting her up to be picked on by her classmates Prologic and Fivepointone Surround.

I wanted to name my son "Spider" but no one else liked it,especially my wife! So, a good compromise is to give the child a fairly normal first name and an unusual middle name. They won't hate you and they can go by their middle name if they so choose.

You are presently at the hysterical phase of baby-naming. At this point, you have tried all the names you can possibly imagine and none of them seems to fit. You feel you must nonetheless come up with a name, any name, or you will have to call the baby "It" or "Thing" and so you grasp at any floating straw. "Spumoni." "Hazard Warning." "Platelet." "Shrek."

There is no solution but trust. The child will let you know her name without the possibility of doubt when the time comes. Realize this and enjoy the wacko notions you come up with in the meantime.

With warm good wishes from a guy whose first kid was going to be named "Water Tap" for a couple of weeks before his birth.

Going with Markphd here, stereo doesn't sound feminine to me. Generally, spanish masculine ends in o, feminine in a. How about Sterea!

Am I just getting used to the sound of a totally ridiculous and cruel first gift to her?

Yes, imo.

Regards,
-- Al

I think she would not like the name and hold it against you later.
When parents name their children strange names, often the long term is not considered....school and careers. Makes it hard on the child when they have off the wall names.

How about "Audiophilia" Nahhh!

"Solid" man, "solid".

Not keen on Stereo either, but we just named our baby girl Marley
- mainly because we heard of the name in the movie I am Legend, but the name has ties to Bob Marley which is cool.

Many names that have a Latin origin end in "o" for males and "a" for females (eg. Mario and Maria, Antonio and Antonia). So some people might think "Stereo" is a masculine name. However, the word "stereo" is Greek in origin, not Latin ("stereos" or "solid", as in a solid image in the audiophile sense).

As to the "cruel first gift" point you mentioned, I think that Frank Zappa's daughter, Moon Unit, changed her name when she got older, although her brother Dweezil seemed cool with his name.

Still, beauty is in the eyes and ears of the beholder so best wishes with whatever you choose. There are many beautiful, distinctive, uncommon things and names can be one of them in our modern world. My daughters have uncommon names too.

I would think long and hard about naming a child that, especially in a world ever moving towards multichannel!

Seriously, it would make a good pet name, but for a person? Especially a girl? I wouldn't go there.

Now, I do have a puppy named 'Bean' which sounded ridiculous when our daughter first said it, but now it is really fun, some times she's a jelly bean, coffee bean, etc....

no I do not think so - stereo is bad

I guess it's better than "Mono", but I don't think I'd do that to my daughter...just my opinion.