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HelpRe: Parents: How did you choose a name for your kid?
in reply to a message by KK
I named my first daughter Caroline; I'd planned to name her Lucy but it didn't suit her so I read the lists in a baby name book, and Caroline was the first one that looked right.
My son: Peter, for a friend; David, for my birth surname; Alastair, for two good friends and to get the initials DA.
My daughter: Caroline; Beatrice, for my mother; Mary, for my husband's mother (whose names were Bertha Maria)
My second daughter: Beatrice, for my mother and so that she would share a name with her late sister; Elizabeth, for my husband's stepmother; Anne, my mn because it was my paternal grandmother's mn.
The point is, we've also got friends and relations whose names we just don't like, or not enough to use. No Ernest, Edna, Muriel, Percy ... there were plenty of names that we liked and that had special meanings for us.
My son: Peter, for a friend; David, for my birth surname; Alastair, for two good friends and to get the initials DA.
My daughter: Caroline; Beatrice, for my mother; Mary, for my husband's mother (whose names were Bertha Maria)
My second daughter: Beatrice, for my mother and so that she would share a name with her late sister; Elizabeth, for my husband's stepmother; Anne, my mn because it was my paternal grandmother's mn.
The point is, we've also got friends and relations whose names we just don't like, or not enough to use. No Ernest, Edna, Muriel, Percy ... there were plenty of names that we liked and that had special meanings for us.
