How did you choose your children names?

My 2 boys have bibicial names. I wanted to name my son after my spouse, but he already had a JR. So that was out. My spouse wanted to name him Ammon a name out of the bible. Then I began to read about what Ammon did to his step-sister so that was out. Then I came across the name Joshua and of course I read about him and I fell in love with the name and what it stood for. So, we both agreed on Joshua and he has has my husbands first name as his middle name. After my first son was born I decided to stick with the J's. I named my second son after his uncle and also Joseph in the bible. So, I said ok I have the leader and now I have the wise ruler. My third child was a girl and I named her Jessica after my mom.

I have two children- a son and a daughter. My son's name was a choice made by my wife when she was a maiden. She had read this novel by Herman Hesse-Siddhartha. That became my son's name. I had made it a principle while naming our children - boys' names shall come from of the Thousand names of Vishnu, and girls' from the Thousand names of Lalita (the Shakti- the Primordial Power. Since my wife's choice of name for my son happened to be in keeping with this principle - though her own choice was not made on that basis as I have written above! Siddhartha is also a name of Vishnu. When we came to my daughter's name my wife had one in mind that would sound Buddhist though it was possible to derive a universal meaning for it. Hence my daughter as a child was asked to pick up a name from, among several acceptable. She picked her name herself as an infant.Since an infant of days old would not really "pick" the name she "tripped" out by swinging about her tiny fist was considered her choice- Ananya - a pronoun meaning "having none other(in feminine gender)". So, that became her name.

the names of my children were coined in a manner wherein their father and i had agreed into. my eldest was named in a way derivative of my mother's name. i wanted the anne and the father added the mary so, we had mary anne. then the son followed. this time, the father wanted it to be a junior for a name. i objected. there are so many names in this world, why can't we give him one of his own? since he wanted the roger there in the least, mark was added to pacify me. so he became mark rodger. the youngest is another son. the father has prepared quite a beautiful but long name. i didn't approve of it. it will be a difficult one for a child to be writing that long name early in school. we settled for darwin. i murmured that he will be giving me all the winnings that i will be needing in this life. and that did it.

Hi rodveiga! I have four kids,my eldest daughter's name is a combination of my husband and my name,my first son is our junior, our second son,s name I derived it from a one of the worlds greatest author and the youngest kid I got her name from a Hindu book. Our children's name was all my choice.They all love their name for all sounds so unique.

My childs name wasn't planned . The whole time I was pregant, the Doctors kept saying that I was having a girl . So a girl's name we picked . We had Christian Noel picked out because she was was due on Christams Eve .. Well baby was born a week before Thanksgiving and to all our surprise , little girl was born a little boy . The doctors said he must have been hiding behind cord . Well we didn't have a boys name picked out . HHHmmmmmm what do we name him ? Well it just so happened when I got back to my room , Someone had turned the T.V on and Growing Pains was on . As I was holding my newborn son , the mother on the show was scolding the son Mike, only she called him out by his whole name "Michael Aaron Seaver". My son smiled his very first smile , to me anyhow, "Nurse said it was gas ". Well anyhow that is how my son got his name , I said if you like that name then that is what your name will be . We named him Michael Aaron , and the name fits him perfect , He is just as mischevious as Michael Aaron Seaver .