HOLLYWOOD, Florida – Barack Obama may have a “funny name,” as he once said – but it might just catch on among the nation’s newborns.

A Florida couple became among the country’s first to bestow it on their child, even before most news outlets had declared the Illinois senator the president-elect.

Sanjae Obama Fisher was born at 8 p.m. local time at Hollywood’s Memorial Regional Hospital to Patrick and Sasha Hall Fisher. A hospital spokeswoman says it was the father’s idea.

Sanjae has two siblings, 8-year-old sister Shaniah and 4-year-old brother Shane.

In Arkansas, Benjamin Barack Kimbrough was born at 2:35 p.m. local time on Election Day to Walter and Adria Kimbrough.

In Maryland, a mother who went into labor Tuesday after voting for Obama named her newborn daughter for the Obamas’ two girls, 7-year-old Sasha and Malia, 10.

Lakisha Brown of Joppa gave birth to Sasha Malia Ann Taylor at 12:36 a.m. local time Wednesday.

She says she was so struck by the love Obama showed to his daughters that she decided to name her baby after them.

Toy Hall of Fame points to new addition: the stick

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The lowly stick could be a magic wand, a knight’s sword or a fishing rod.

Now the universal plaything has landed in the National Toy Hall of Fame, along with Baby Doll and the skateboard.

The three were chosen Thursday to join the lineup at the Strong National Museum in Rochester, N.Y. Previous inductees include the bicycle, Mr. Potato Head, Crayola crayons and the cardboard box.

Curators say the stick is a special addition. They praised its all-purpose, all-natural, no-cost qualities. They also noted its ability to serve either as raw material or an appendage transformed by a child’s imagination.

From Associated Press reports