27 Names To Call Your Amazon Echo Instead Of Alexa

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When Amazon unveiled Amazon Echo on Thursday, the Internet was immediately intrigued by the 9-inch cylindrical speaker and digital personal assistant reminiscent of Apple’s Siri. The only possible catch? The device goes by the name "Alexa" by default -- leading some Twitter users who know and love an Alexa to anticipate some confusion:

I can't use Amazon Echo even if I wanted to. My girlfriend's name is Alexa, so this would accidentally trigger like 30 times a day.
— Louie (@mantia) November 6, 2014

Amazon will unfortunately be missing out on the % of the population with a sister, daughter, or mother named Alexa.
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) November 6, 2014

Today in America, a baby girl was named Alexa. Fifteen years from now, her parents are paying for a lot of therapy. http://t.co/RV1mkooqMO
— Michael T. Rose (@MikeTRose) November 7, 2014

Other tweeters stepped in to point out it's just a default...

@markgurman you did hear the part where they said that’s just the word they set in their household, right?
— Justin Cardinal (@justincardinal) November 6, 2014

Which, if anything, could be more stressful. How do you choose the right name for your Echo?! Here are 27 (non-gendernormative) suggestions to get you started:

1. Ahab
2. Minion
3. Checkers Nixon
4. iTunes Shuffle
5. Peaches
6. Noam Chomsky
7. Smalls
8. BuzzFeed
9. Scarface
10. Julia Child
11. Congress
12. Terry Gross
13. Pinky
14. The Brain
15. Mail Chimp (or Kimp, if you listen to Serial)
16. Lorde
17. Flat Circle
18. Katniss
19. Kristin Chenoweth
20. Ovid
21. Chingy
22. Content Placement
23. 1984
24. R2-D2
25. Rosemary's Baby
26. Thumbelina
27. Canteloupe (2:44)