When naming our child, my wife and I came up with the following requirements.

• name should be fairly unique according to the Social Security Administration
• name can not be shortened into a nickname.  This avoid scenarios where later in life where financial and government agencies require the full name.
• common algorithms for generating a network login name should be reviewed so a username is not of a vulgar nature
  • Some examples for John Doe (jdoe, doejo, etc)
• Middle name should ...