rather than have any new and handsome boy stranger hear it from the lips of my horrid friends in school. Evolutionary names are a fact of life; names evolve voluntarily or otherwise. We do this to ourselves, to others and to our pets; others do it to us. My old dog, Najee, had a total of twenty-eight names from puppyhood to his final ‘forever’ name, before he died. Here is just one example of the 'evolution of naming' a relative of mine and his son. When the baby was born, he had gas like few... Sign in to see full entry.