How did you decide on your children's names?

First, we looked for nice sounding names. Then we looked up or researched for the meanings and the one that connotes something positive is what we choose. I came across and article that say's one's name also symbolizes his character and the way he live. I don't know if that theory is true but it gave me an idea on how to choose a name for my children.

hi,in our family there are few basics in naming children.Like if our parents or grand parents passed away earlier,we used to prefer those names based on gender..second one some God's names...third one if we have passion on cine actors or on some different names ...

My daughter's name is Amelia Isabelle, and her first name was taken from the Amelia of Princess Mia in Princess Diaries movie because my husband find her very pretty. But we changed Amelia to Amilia coz it is prone here to be mispronounced. We added Isabelle as her second name coz my husband would like to remember the province where he was assigned before which is Isabela. For my son it is Karl Theodore. Theodore is like a legacy coz his grandfather is Teodoro, and my dad is Teodorico. Karl as was actually random as we were thinking of another name to be attached to Theodore. However, I kinda regretted giving long names for my children coz they have difficulty of writing it. My daughter would always complain that it is very long so she would often write Amilia only.

I got my baby's name from the internet and I really love it because it is unique. I only want one name the father wants two name instead, the first name will came from me while the second is from him.

My wife made the decision on all 3. She just asked me if I approve of them or not. How can I argue with her when she carried them for 9 months? Besides, she had chosen nice names for them. I rest my case.

Even before I got pregnant my husband & I had decided names for our children, we named them after the Archangels, Our first child is Michael Angelo we named him after St. Michael the Archangel, our second is Gabriel and hopefully next year if God will give us a boy again we will name him Raphael...:)

For my first daughter it was a joint effort between my mom and the father of my daughter. My mom thought of Anne and my ex thought of Lelin which is my middle name. That name was a nickname for the person who introduced my parents to each other. My second daughter was named Jillian after the actress Ann Jillian. I loved the name Jillian and 29 years ago I thought it was pretty different but now I find there are so many Jillians. My oldest daughter has a name no one else does in the world which is really cool.

I have always liked to pick names out by the way they sound together. Since my two boys are actually step-sons I did not get to pick their names but if I were to ever have a son of my own I would want to name him Vincent James. I just like the ring to it and if it were a girl she would be name Kayla Leigh. No signficance to either name. You stated that you didn't want to name your children after someone you know but at least you ar not naming them after objects in your home. There is a story about a woman locally that had twin boys that she name Orangalo and Lamangalo. They were named after orange jello and lime jello. LOL.

Well i go with my wifes choice and our parents and grandparents. We though have our own pet name for her. My grandparents help us choosing names as we think they are right people to name her.

You know the ritual in Hindu's is that we just cannot keep any name they check the date and time of birth and then give us alphabets from which you can name the child so that the child's future is good. I did a lot of searching so that I get a name which means something as usually the names have meaning. My daughter's name is Avani and it means the Earth.

We name our children by putting best wishes into it.We hope our children have a happy and sweet life in the future, be talented, be successful and so on. So we use the charactor representing these best wished. If we can not decide how to name our kids, we may depend on others' opinion or even the dictionary.

My daughter I named Roxanne as I just fell inlove with that name ever since I was in college. It never really was a name of a girl I like in my school days. I just liked it. Good thing my wife approved of it. But she added Rei to it to maybe appease her father named Rey because we married too early. My son however was named after a name I should have had based on the Catholic calendar. then I added my name and my grandfather's name to his name as my grandfather was always proud of my achievements. Problem now is my son finds it too long to write in school. Now I wish I just gave him one name.

i will choos and tell everybody of my family and friend other personi,then i listen everycoments yes or no if (yes) is tell everybody then i happy and i desid name.

regrettably, I didn't get a say in my son's name. His mother named him after her uncle, which is fine, it suits him. My daughters name just came to me and i liked it a lot. We had a little disagreement over her middle name at first, but we came to an agreement. Simply put, I had liked the names beforehand, and holding my newborn, it just 'felt' right