Originally Posted by filtherton

Well, me and my lady are geeks. I wanted to name the kid after a notable scientist or mathematician, but it turns out that convincing someone to name their daughter something like gauss or feynman is nearly impossible, so we named our daughter after the greek letter commonly used to denote an angular variable. It sounds nice, and when she's older she can appreciate the brevity of having a name that is also a symbol- at least i would if i was in her shoes. The middle name is just a merging of her grandmothers' middle names.