How did you and your spouse pick your babies name?

[BostonMike7]

Wife and I put a list of names together and whittled it down to 1 or 2 that we agreed on, with decision to be made day of birth.

Middle name was to be a grandparents first name. Which one depending on some factors I won't go into here.

[TXRunner]

We chose family names, but then again, we had family names that I really did like. Somewhat popular, but not in the top ten or anything like that.

I've taught a lot of the students with the unusual names or unusual spellings and I can tell you that most of them do not enjoy the unique names as much as the parents do.

[silibran]

Basically I chose names I liked and DH vetoed or accepted. He was awful at thinking of names.

I wanted names that were moderately unique but recognizable. I did not want the kid needing to spell the name each time it was said. As it turned out, the name I chose to give my firstborn turned out to be in common usage. Luckily we gave the kid a great diminutive that the kid still uses.

People have actually complimented my name choices.

My kids have always seemed fine with their names, thank goodness.

[parentologist]

We were living in Utah, pregnant with first kid. This was in the days before the internet, before smart phones, when you kept a yellow pages and a white pages in the car, in case you needed to look something/someone up. We got out the White Pages on a long drive, and went through all the names under Young and Smith. "Nah, I knew a kid I didn't like by that name." "Nope, that's my father's name, and he's still alive." Finally we hit a name we both liked, had good associations for us, so that's what we used! It was hubby's deceased non-Jewish grandfather's name, so we simply translated it into Hebrew for his Hebrew name. Funny, how my firstborn's Hebrew name is for his Christian great-grandfather.

[kygman]

First son was named after both their grandfathers. Second named after me and his mother's uncle (her dad's twin).
Funniest one I heard was a friend whose daughter was born on the first day of Summer, so her name is Summer Day.

[pekemom]

We wanted names that sounded good for an adult as well as a child.
I agreed with him for first son's name.
We both chose daughter's name going through a list of girl's names.
I chose 2nd son's name, husband agreed.
All 3 are okay with their names.