Imagine if your middle name was Einstein

I really hope the father of my future children is as nerdy as I am so he will agree to smart person middle names.

While some parents are happy simply giving normal names (Marie) that are shout outs to cool people (holla, Currie) that is simply not enough for me. I keep an ongoing list in my head of mathematicians and scientists who discovered neat things and who also have cool names.

And I don't just mean like, Newton, or Joule or lame-o things like that. I kind of envision my future child sitting in math class learning about series expansion and being like "Maclaurin. That's my middle name. My parents are the funnest."

Some good options: Tesla, Laplace, Descartes, Faraday, Rutherford, Pascal, Archimedes, Fibonacci, Bernoulli, Bessel, Gibbs, Ampere, Hypatia (mainly because she's a girl), Avagadro, Edison (too commonly known?), and Ptolemy.

Some bad options: Kirchoff, Bohr, Planck, Hertz, Fermat, Euclid, Frobenius, Runge, Kutta, Lagrange, Cauchy, Euler, Poisson, Gauss, l'Hopita,l Hermite, Mach, Arrhenius, Nernst, Snell (aren't those all awful sounding despite people cool people?) and de Broglie because I remember hating learning that stuff.

However, I've moved beyond just middle names. What if they were named Brooke Taylor LastName. Or Sadie Carnot LastName. HM? How hilarious would that be. They think their name is normal and then come their first thermodynamics course... ! Come on, how fun would that be if your name was Sadi(e) Carnot?

(Dear future children. It's okay if you never take a thermodynamics course but also? Why not? Math is fun! Science is cool! But whatever, I love you anyway. Now eat your broccoli and go practice for sports.)