We’ve received several comments and questions about Calder’s name, so I thought I’d explain why we chose this name. One night, a couple of weeks before Calder’s due date, Bryce was looking through a baby name book and came across the name Calder (in a section about using surnames as first names). He then remembered that there was a Calder Haymond somewhere in his family tree. So, we looked in our records and, sure enough, Bryce’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was named Calder Haymond. On top of that, Calder was a family surname further back in the line. We thought the name was different enough without sounding too “out there” and liked the family link. Once we’d decided on the first name, it only took us a minute to decide on the name Allan, after my father, for his middle name.

As a funny side note, we emailed family members and had them guess what his name would be. The only clue we gave them was that it began with a “C”. We got lots of guesses and it was fun to see what people came up with. We were shocked, however, when my dad emailed us with “Calder” as his top guess. We didn’t think anyone would guess correctly. I guess it was meant to be that Calder would be named after my father! 🙂

So, that’s the story of how Calder Allan Haymond got his name.