h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So the Star was born.

21st June 2008. 22.53.

A boy. Name tba - state your preference between Ilya and Ignat here.

6lbs 13 ozs or 3.08kg.

Congratulations!

Can't chose. Names both cool. WOuld it be weird to call him both?

I vote Ilya.

What's his last name?

Like both names - but perhaps the first would be easier for Englanders to cope with?

Congratulations!

I vote for Ilya. Always had a crush on that Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Me too. That's where I got the idea from...

Can't have two names: Russian tradition dictates a first name and a patronymic based on the father's name. He's going to be Ilya (or Ignat) Vladimiravitch (have to think about that spelling too, actually) and then a really long Russian surname which is also a bug... pain to spell, so you can see why the first name has got to be fairly short.

Good thinking. That is why my first name is Jan, not Janet or Janice. I was saddled with a long name of Polish derivation. I don't even have a middle name.

I really like the tradition of patronymics

I was wondering why I kept picturing blonde hair - is he fair or dark or can't you tell yet?

I like the name Ilya very much. It seems a great choice to me.

Ilya. That's so cool. Ilya Solsonovich.

Okay...forget I said that out loud.

...but, yeah, Ilya is waaay cool!

I bet he's smilin' atcha already, ain't he?

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Mostly he sleeps, actually.

He has darkish hair and blue eyes at the mo, and B is extremely happy that he has his Russian nose, but less enthused about the English chin.

Congrats!

I vote for Ilya, though to me Ilya first reminds me of a Russian hero. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Muromets

I've always said that officially, Hati, I will swear that Ilya is named after Ilya Muromets. It's just that really...

Actually, I was telling the Star the other day that he will clearly grow up to be as cunning and sexy as Ilya K and as brave and strong like Ilya M and as creative as the various Ilya writer and artist Ilyas and nothing at all like the Ilya who is responsble for VI Lenin.