How did you choose your children's names?

[supershifty]

I'm 47 and don't plan on firing off any more kids. My girls are 18+20 now. I and the now ex didn't want to know what sex of child we were getting so had to debate on names.

The tradition in my family was that the first born son takes the fathers christian name as middle name. My name is David, my father's name was Alan - so David Alan and so forth. Much the same in a lot of families. We had so much difficulty trying to decide on a boys name that we gave up, not because of arguing - just couldn't decide, it was in limbo. We wanted to be prepared for the birth to announce a name, but it wasn't going to happen.

We picked heaps of girl's names - so much easier for some odd reason. We didn't want names of other girls in our respective families (although we liked many of them) The ex knocked out a few names because they were a "*****'s name" of someone she didn't like ("nasty girl", in case the filter kicks in)

Glad I had girls though. We called them Ashley Paige + Sheridan Kate - sorted.

How did you go?

Cheers!