Releasing the names...

It's good policy to not tell people the name(s) you are considering for your unborn kids. The last thing you need is pre-birth name ridicule. Some people can't control themselves.

Usually, once the kid is born/named, you are generally safe except from the most severe critics.

Well, put a bunch of Israelis in that category.

Despite our market research on the best spelling for the transliteration of the name, we've gotten a number of Israelis who've emailed us/my mom directly saying, in effect,

'that's not how you spell it. It should be Nitzan."

Yes, that's true, but the point is we were concerned about the 5.994 billion people in the world for whom Hebrew is NOT their first language!