I really love the name I picked out for my daughter. It's not game of thrones-ish it's directly from GoT. I fell in love with the name when I read first book way before the tv series. I thought it was different and unique enough to add to my future baby names list while I was still in middle school. I added that along with Arwen. Yes you can loudly scream nerd. When I revisited the name after finding out I was pregnant I found I still had a great love for it. After finding out I was having a girl I was even more attached to it but at the same time I wanted to name her after the women in my family. My family is full of independent women doing what they need to raise the families alone. So I wrote down both good and bad traits from my great great grandmother down through to my aunts and mother and myself. I then listed all of the character traits from both the books and the show and compared them. It felt as though this name belonged here on my family tree and that she would go on to be just as strong. Plus it was a whole lot better than the following: Queen, Josephine, Mary, Ruby, Mae, Ruth, Thelma and just about every variation and combination of those names you could come up with. My mom thought outside the box when she named me. Darshani after some Indian woman's daughter she saw on tv. It was just spur of the moment after she couldn't even remember the other one. It was beautiful and different well as different as you can get from typical African American names during the 80's in this part of Georgia. I grew up with a mom who spent most of her life up north so my name wasn't abnormal to her being around so many different cultures. Getting others to pronounce it was a source of pain. Dashanti, Dashika, Dasanti and my personal favorite Dasani I drink like 6-8 bottles of the stuff daily. I get a good kick out it now seriously four close to three years I had a coworker call me Dashanti and she'd be looking at my name badge. So of course I have no problem helping her deal with her name. Intitals aren't that important. My husband's are RRV. Plus it's not like I'm into monograming things. I guess it's just because of what I associate DMV with that I feel like I should change it. In Georgia the DMV is DDS instead and I don't think people with those initials have ever thought about it that much. Everybody says it's really a beautiful choice as long as you don't think of the initials. Maybe I'm just over thinking this now just like I've been over shopping.