What name have you chosen and why did you choose that name?

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

We named our daugher Jane Collett (after many months of debate!)

We chose Jane because I simply adore it, specifically it reminds me of Peter Pan which was my favorite fairytale as a child (Wendy names her daughter Jane.)

Collett is a family name (my mother's maiden name and my sister's middle name.)

 you??

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

oh and my son is Thomas Francis V (yes he is the fifth!) So, pretty self-explanatory!!

sunnyday016

DD is Sophia Joy. We both loved Sophie but wanted her to have the formal name of Sophia. It means wisdom, and honestly this is my main prayer for her life-that we would raise her to be wise and to make good decisions. Joy was easy-she has brought us nothing but Joy! 

*Scuzzlebutt*

We named our daughter Clara Valerie.  I never considered the name Clara, but I read it in a book - The Long Way Round, by Ewan McGregor, of all people.  His daughter is named Clara and I just loved the way it looked in print.  I convinced DH to go with it because we couldn't agree on anything else.  She is SUCH a Clara...I don't know how to explain what that means, but she totally suits her name.  Valerie is my grandmother's name.

Our boy name is William Michael James - for our grandfathers and my dad.

DevonPow

Henry Michael. Henry because it was one of the very, very few names we agreed on and Michael is DH's name (our families always use family names for middle names).

Worcbride

Ryan Joseph

Ryan--the last name of my godmother who died at 38 from brain cancer

Joseph--DH's and my dad's first name

elyselowe

DD is Brooklyn Anne

Brooklyn was one of the only girl names that we agreed on, I liked it because it was not a very common name.

Anne is a family name. My middle name and my grandmothers' (on both sides) middle names.

mrsseguin

I always loved the name Austin.  Willem is his middle name after my dad.  We had an easy time picking our son's name.

FutureMrs.Steen

My DD is Sarah Catherine. Catherine is my grandmother's name. Sarah was a name that DH and I both loved and it's my grandmother Catherine's favorite girl name. 

ehiwv

my daughter is avery elizabeth.  i've loved the name avery forever, and my dh also loved it.  it was the only name that we both really, really loved.  elizabeth is my name, and my grandmother's name, and a few aunts' names, and a few cousins' names.

rchelone

I think we have decided on Julia Marie C. Not 100% on the middle name though, she will have the same initials as my mom, which I have no problem with.

Shorewind

Tyler- my husband loved and was set on this name. I liked it but liked Matthew better. Tyler grew on me, now I love it.

 John, Dh's name, may dad's name, Dh's dad's name, DH's Uncles name...you get the point.

 If there is a DC...Im stumped!!!

FemmeNat01

Our boys names are:

Lucas Christopher --> Christopher is after my mom Cristina and Lucas is a name I have loved forever.

Matthew James --> Matthew is a name we both love and James is after DF

Our girl names are:

 Elena Sarah Anya --> Elena is a name I love, Sarah is after my cousin and she is one of my best friends and always has been, Anya is a mix of reasons (Russian, version of Anna (my grandmother), and means Grace (DF's mom's name)

 Amalia Rosalie --> Amalia (coincidentally) is a mix of my best friend's name. Amy and Natalia, and Rosalie is a name we both love.

Shorewind

FemmeFataleNat01:

Our boys names are:

Lucas Christopher --> Christopher is after my mom Cristina and Lucas is a name I have loved forever.

Matthew James --> Matthew is a name we both love and James is after DF

Our girl names are:

 Elena Sarah Anya --> Elena is a name I love, Sarah is after my cousin and she is one of my best friends and always has been, Anya is a mix of reasons (Russian, version of Anna (my grandmother), and means Grace (DF's mom's name)

 Amalia Rosalie --> Amalia (coincidentally) is a mix of my best friend's name. Amy and Natalia, and Rosalie is a name we both love.

Your Mom and I spell our first names the same!!!

ccw479

Marcus Patrick

Marcus - a name I have always loved

Patrick - after my mom, her name is Patricia

krissyh21

Dillon Richard

Dillon was one of 3 names we both liked, this one stuck. Richard is my FIL name, he passed away when I was 18 weeks pregnant.

crystal959

We chose Brooke Nicole. Brooke was a name that we really agreed on and got a lot of positive feedback on. Also, it was the name of one of my favorite characters on TV. Nicole is my sisters middle name and I wanted to honor someone on my side of the family.

She was supposed to be Lila Rae and I'm glad we decided on Brooke because she's much too rough to be a gentle and airy "Lila."

LittleMamaB

Miles Peyton, Jonas Alexander, and Seth Ryan. All were chosen simply because we liked them. Most of the names in themselves have reasons behind them, but not any super important ties, really (with the exception of Ryan, which is DH's mn).

JulieCarolyn

DS1 is Jackson (Jack) David-  My father is Jack, DH's father is David.

Possible name for DS2 is Charles (Charlie) Xavier- DH's grandfather and great-grandfather had the middle name Charles.  My great-grandfather  had the middle name Xavier. 

dale05

Claire Cheyenne. 

We don't exactly have a very memorable story of how we chose our daughter's name.  We were actually watching Wedding Crashers and that's where we got her first name.  I gave in with the second name since my DH loves names of 'places' and I couldn't find a middle name I liked to go with Claire that DH would consider anyway.  I kind of liked Claire Isabelle but DH did not like that at all.

LondonBridges

Jason Brooks

Jason is my brother's name.  He was killed in a car accident when I was 19, and I wanted to name DS after him.

Brooks is DH's middle name and his grandmother's maiden name.  

moobug

Girl: Elizabeth Jane

Elizabeth is my sisters middle name, Jane is my (and my mom's) middle name. We also love Jane Austen - esp. Pride & Prejudice.

Boy: We can't agree, but we'll def. be using my husbands middle name (Kenton) as either the middle or first name. He is a junior and we want to keep some of his name without having a Trip.

bsadler81

Evie Rose.  My great Aunts name was Evie (w/ a short E) and Rose is my favorite Aunts name.  I love both of them together it just flows nicely.

Terri Bridelee

Twenty years ago, I named my son Brandon Keith.  Keith is my dad's middle name, and Brandon we both really liked and at the time, it was different.  Two seconds later, Beverly Hills 90210 came out and all the teeny bopper moms started naming their sons Brandon and Dylan.  There went that.

mgrulke

Molly, easy to say, spell and it fit her when her father saw her face

Mrs.Burke

We named our first Aubrie Ashlin.  My husbad and I both loved Aubrie and since he is Irish and we got engaged in Ireland we wanted a Gaelic middle name.  Ashlin means dream so it was just perfect for us!!

CT_08

I absolutely love Jane and Elizabeth -- We won't use them together but if I get two girls it will definately be incorporated.l

You could name a boy WIlliam (as in Fitz William Darcy....lol).

britnicole88

We FINALLY decided on our name after much debate. But we came to a compromise to please both sides of the fam...

 Harlan was my great grandfather

Phillip is my boyfriends Dad

stcroixbride

Hilarie Dawn is our DD's name.

It fit my requirements for a name - barely even on the SSA list (I checked all spellings, as obviously this is a lesser used one) so not at all trendy right now, not made up and has a wonderful meaning "cheerful" that I hoped might describe DD (and it does!).

Dawn was another possibility for a first name and it seemed to flow nicely as a middle name.

Very few people will use this name right now because of the HRC association - made it even more appealing to me.  And while I'm not a huge HRC fan, I do not mind if people think I got the name from her.  I got the spelling from the only Hilarie I knew until HRC came along - I always just liked the -ie better than the -y spellings.