The older daughter was named after a wildflower which reminded me of the relationship I had with her father. With the younger daughter, there were no influences, I really liked the name. Later on her father and I found out that her name was the name of the place that her father's family was from.

I really like the name I chose, and my husbands pick was not at all to my liking, so I had to think on my feet. I let my husbands pick be the middle name.

My oldest boy I had his name picked out since I was 10. The next boy was named after a dear friend. The twins my husband and I picked a name each, one of our twins wasn't doing so well in the womb and I named him Samuel because it means 'Heard by God'.

I have one son and I named him after his Dad..he is a "junior". My then-husband wasn't too keen on giving our son his name, but I was determined to do so..told him I was the one that carried our son for 9 months and I got to "know" him and used to talk to him all the time about what to expect from the world when he was born..the name is so right..he fits it and it fits him to a "T". :)

i chose my daughter's name by a holiday in the season she was born, and my son's name i just really like and it sounds strong.

I love to read, and my ex loves to watch TV, I named my first son from my favorite book of all time, and my ex named the 2nd son, from his favorite TV show.

When I knew I was pregnant my husband and I did a little reading on names. What we read showed us that unusual names tend to get lower marks in schools and the children can have trouble socially. So we decided a normal name would be a good idea because he was already going to have fun with his last name. Then we went through baby books and looked for names that would not sounds silly with our last name and names that we couldnt think of any bad nicknames for. Trust me, that was a long list, damn our imaginations. In the end we picked a boys name and a girls name because we didn't want to know what sex the baby was until it was born. So it was Paul for a boy and Emma for a girl. We had a boy, who is just turning 22.

Relegion, culture, tribes, past popular leaders, regional things, histry and many more.

Several things influenced our choice. The first one is that I have a very unusual name, and although I like the name it has caused me grief all my life. No one can pronounce it. Substitute teachers hated me, because as soon as they tried to pronounce it the entire class erupted into laughter. I have had to pronounce it, spell it and explain its origin to everyone I have ever met, by which time I have completely forgotton the other person's name. It also makes me feel completely exposed before the world with the advent of the internet, because when you google my name, you get me and only me. So I didn't want to give my child an odd name. I didn't want to give them a completely nondescript name either. I wanted it to stand out a little. I wanted it to have a musical sound, a little rhythm as it were, so that meant it needed to be multisyllabic. I didn't want it to have any horrible nicknames associated with it, no Silence of the Lambs connotations. I wasn't about to name my child Clarice. But I didn't want it to be devoid of nicknames either, in case my child decided she hated it. I didn't use Elizabeth, so I can use it for an example. If a child is named Elizabeth and grows to hate it, she can be Eliza, Liza, Lisa, Beth, Betty, Bette, Elle, or Liz. I also wanted my child's name to ground her in the family and give her a sense of belonging. So I wanted at least part of it to be a family name. My husband is from a large family, and we were some of the last to have kids, so most of the family names on his side were used. So we mined my family tree. We ended up with the first names of both of my grandmothers for a girls name, and the first name of my greatgrandfather and first name of my husband's mentor for a boy. Of course, we had a girl, so we didn't get to use the boy's name, which we both really liked. So the result is our daughter's name is a three syllable first name, three syllable middle name which has a bit of a lilt as you say it and sounds melodius. The first name has no nicknames, so there isn't anything horrible for kids to call her and only has a slight association to a positive character in a movie. The middle name has eleven nicknames and derivatives, so if she decides she hates it there is plenty to go on. Both names were fairly common at one time, so they aren't odd, but they aren't in common use now, so she doesn't disappear into the herd. When you call her name, her's is the only head in the room that pops up, but it isn't so odd that she has to explain it to everyone.

My first daughter is named Jessica Diana. Her mom pretty much came up with that. My second daughter's name is Michelle Yvonne. Michelle came about because if she had been a boy the intent was to name the boy Michael David. Yvonne was, if I recall, a suggestion I made.