as for the baby names, i really like aspera. it has a great sound to it so i looked up all sorts of crap on it which you've probably already done and will be bored by here, but too bad.
in latin ad astra per aspera means "to the stars with difficulty/through troubles/ the hard way". i know all the other words so i figured aspera, at least in latin, means something challenging. not a bad name for a baby. infact, the latin dictionary says it means "rough". totally cool. i'm assuming if you're taking it from spanish it might have a different colloquial meaning, but i think you should go with the difficulty, challenge, struggle use when you tell the kid what his name means. naming a little boy aspera for a middle name is sort of like secretly naming him badass and that can only make you cooler when he's 14. besides, how many kids have a middle name that's a real latin word?
him- "yeah, my name is eli badass brady. you got a problem with that?"
all other teenage boys- "man, your parents are the coolest people on the whole planet!"
him- "duh!"
aotb- "so you are a badass, yet your name is latin so you are also deep. can you explain today's math assignment to us so that we may also be wise, o great badass?"
him- "sure, come on over to my house. my dad's making some sort of ridiculously tasty snack right now and there's enough for everyone!"
aotb- "hooray! truly your parents are the most perfect specimens of humanity ever!"
all- "to badass! to a clearer understanding of math! to snacks!"
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Ok, so when I read the name Aspera, I think all sorts of things like asperger, aspertame, aspirin, asp, and so on. I think that since we, the aunts that totally rock, we should have some input in this name thing. We are the ones that this kid is going to cry to when some other kid at school gives him a bunch of crap because of his name. Eli Fransisco Brady does have a nice ring to it or what about Maddox, it means son of Mad Dog. Just a few thoughts.
I'm thinking "asperation.." as in breathing. Only it makes me think more of suffocating...
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