Well, you already know how I chose Briezy's name.

We decided on a pattern to make it fair (cause we don't completely agree on just about any names). I get the first girl, Jeff gets the second (which he wants to be Mara Jade (after Luke Skywalker's wife) and I want the middle name to be Janiece). Jeff gets the first boy, and I get the second. I want Harrison Kennedy. Jeff wants (get ready) Anakin, Julius Alexander, Joseph Hyrum, or Jeffrey David Jr. I HATE the Julius one. My brother's name is Jeffrey too, so don't want three jeff's around, don't much like joseph cause of how used it is.. and don't get me started on ANAKIN.. Ugh.. I'm trying to talk him into Christian Jericho or Jericho Christian. We'll see.. that is, of course, assuming we have any more!

Ooh, great topic, and one my wife and I have been thinking about non-stop for the past couple of months!

Our first daughter is adopted, so we didn't get to choose her name -- Madison Rose Kathleen. We didn't want to change it because she already self-identified with it.

For our second, who will be joining us in the next couple or few weeks (we're due March 2, but she will likely come a week or two early), we wanted to pick a less common name. We love the name Madison, but we probably would have picked something else, as Madison has been in the top two or three girl names for the past four or five years. Our other ground rule was -- no duplication of names of people that are in our life. A derivative would be fine, as long as it wasn't too close.

Also, we wanted some kind of connection to Madison's name...some kind of pattern. First we were thinking city names. Savannah was an early contender, but we picture Savannah as a blond with blue eyes, with Southern roots. With my (Chinese) heritage, we are pretty sure that our new daughter will not fit that. Actually, Madison would be a perfect Savannah; her birth father is even from Georgia. I also suggested Brielle (after the New Jersey city), and it might still be at the back of my wife's mind. My cousins who live in Brielle love the name, though. :)

Then we thought of presidential names. I liked Kennedy, but my wife didn't. The presidential thing didn't get too far.

So we decided on alliteration. We both liked Makayla, but thought it was too common. So we decided to change it up a little bit and go with Mikyla ("mih-KYE-la"), or Kylie for short. My wife is going to call her Kylie, so we were wondering if we should just make that her name...but our sense was that she might want to be a Mikyla later in life, so naming her Mikyla would give her the flexibility to go by Mikyla, Kylie, Kyla, or even Miki. In any event, our choice was somewhat committed when my wife's mom gave us a personalized piggy bank and door hanger at the baby shower a couple weeks ago.

Now we just need a middle name. We kind of want an "R" name (for further alliteration), but can't find any that we like, that sound good with Mikyla.

One more thing, one of our early contenders was Amaya (yes, from the Real World, and I was thinking of Colin for a boy, not making the RW connection at the time). However, someone pointed out to us that Amaya sounds like "Am I a...?" and with our last name, it could be particularly bad, as it would sound a lot like "Am I a ho?" We figured that some substitute teacher would be bound to make that mistake, as my wife and I are often mistakenly called Ho's.

Our youngest is named after the New England Patriots QB. His middle name is Brady. Hubby & I couldn't agree on anything & the doc was going to induce me on the Sunday of the Super Bowl in '04 (that the Pats won, BTW) Hubby told the doc I would be delivering the baby alone.

I can't reply. All I can think is, you're pregnant? three kids and you're willing to do it again?

wow!

my son's father wanted to name him Gevin. I'd never heard of it before and didn't really like it, plus it reminded me of Gavin Mcleod, captain Stubing of the Love boat. Once I vetoed that name he didn't want to look at other names or give any input so I went through a baby name book page by page and wrote down every boy name that struck my fancy. I had about 20 or so and just kept narrowing it down to the one I finally chose - Zayne. It's a great name and we get comments on it all the time. Plus now that I'm not with his father I doubly glad my son has a name that I got to choose by myself.