Graduation week means different things to different people.

Most importantly, for all those graduating seniors, it is the end of what feels like a long road, and the beginning of what we all hope is an even longer, more meaningful, more fun road through college or a career path to adventures, treasures untold and — no hurry on this last one — families of your own.

For parents, including several Register colleagues who watched their sons or daughters earn a diploma this week, it is a big moment, as well. Who would have thought those little muffins they cradled in their arms would get this far? Who would have guessed they would turn out so well? Who would have thought that we adults had it in us to raise such smart, honest and good-looking creatures?

Congratulations, parents.

But for us editors, all human events, great and terrible, boil down to ink on a page.

So, by the time we wrapped up our special graduation section last week, I nearly had to scoop my eyeballs off the genuine pig hair carpet (!) on the Register newsroom floor.

That’s why I can tell you there are more than a dozen newly-minted Napa Valley graduates whose name is some variation on Britney. Interestingly, none of them are actual Britneys in the manner of Ms. Spears.

Most in fact, are named Brittany. But there is also a Brittney or two, and a Brittani.

The graduation special was published in Friday’s Register. The long roll call contained the names of every graduating senior and individual earning a college degree from a Napa County school, from the two seniors at Kolbe Academy — a tiny Catholic school tucked among the quiet homes of the alphabet streets in Napa — to the last three semesters’ worth of Napa Valley College grads.

Thanks to the schools for sending in the lists, and to our education reporter, Cristina DeLeon-Menjivar, for gently prodding them to do so.

It was only after Cristina did her thing that I got involved — calling the nice people at school admissions offices around the valley and double-checking names.

Were their really two seniors named Brenna at Vintage High?

Is that last name really Ocha, or is it Ochoa?

Chhin with two h’s?

Several famous Napa names, names that have graced other lists over the years, were there — Berryessa, Streblow, Wilcoxson.

Running down the names is one thing, but running down the possible typos on the page is another. Typos are always unwelcome, but they are especially unwelcome in certain places — such as on resumes or in publications related to education.

One of our headings for Napa Valley College stated the grads were earning degrees in eduction. Not induction, deduction, seduction or liposuction. Eduction.

Before the night was over, we snuck that “a” in there.