Thanks. My dad picked it. Abigail means joy of the father. It's a common name back home. I think it was in the top forty names when I was born, something like that.

[She says it quietly, not wanting to upset him further and because she feels confused by it. Her name bothers her, simply because it's always felt like her mother had no input.]

I've never heard the name Atem before either. Is it a version of Adam?