During the early months of this year, Elaine and Cameron Smith of Ajax, Ontario, were unable to agree on a name for their baby girl, who would arrive over the summer. “Elaine liked Lauren, but Cameron was pushing for Amanda, Alexandra or Kristyn.”
Then something happened while the family of three (which included the couple’s 7-year-old son, Austin) was on a ski vacation in Vermont. At one point, Cameron “got off the chairlift and noticed that the badge belonging to his son’s ski instructor, Lauren, had fallen off and somehow ended up on the front of his snowboard.” That was enough to convince Cameron to go “with the name his wife had been pushing for.”
Their baby girl, Lauren Marguerite, was born in late July.
(And how older brother Austin get his name? It was inspired by a commercial for one of the Austin Powers movies, believe it or not!)
Source: Rushowy, Kristin. “Baby name: A born snowboarder.” Toronto Star 19 Dec. 2009.