The longer we use the name “Noah” for our son, the more I like it.  I’ve discovered that it is one of the most cross-cultural names that I’ve ever come across, and if you know us at all, this is something that is really important to us.  Recently, I was talking with our neighbor’s mother who is here visiting from Canada.  When she heard my son’s name, she said, “What a good Canadian name.”  Really?!  Never knew that.  Another time, I was talking with a Muslim lady who thought that “Noah” was great because he’s a prophet in the Quran.  And I thought that he was only in the Bible!  How cool is that?

Another interesting thing about that name “Noah”, is that it means “Wanderer.”  After we had decided on the first name and we were still looking for our elusive “O” middle name, I decided to do a google search for a name meaning “Wanderer” since my pregnancy was full of wandering from country-to-country, state-to-state.   Instead of finding an “O” name, I discovered that our first name already meant that.

I guess, though, a lot of people think that “Noah” is a great name since it was #6 on the top boy names for 2007.  Not original, but cool nonetheless.   We just named him after his daddy: Philip Noah Hagelberg.  =)