How did you pick your baby’s name?

We got so sick of sitting there with the name book and talking about names that I made up a chart and put it on the fridge. It had 5 columns, one for boys first names, boys second names, girls first names and girls second names, and a no way, not ever, over my dead body column. We would use post-its and put names in the appropriate column and then if DH or I didn't like it, it got moved to either the second name column (if you could live with it but not for a first name) or into the no way column. The most popular name would always be at the top of the list. With Dominic we didn't know what his gender was so we came up with two boys names and two girls names and decided to choose once we had met him. His middle name was always going to be Antony, my compromise to DH as he really loved the name and I didn't. He came out looking like a Dominic. With Isobelle we knew she was a girl and so just picked out a few girls names. The middle name was always going to be Victoria, same reason as for Dominic's middle name.
We still meant a lot of time discussing names as it was important to us that the name had a special meaning as well but we weren't up late at night glaring at the name book and arguing.

Pepsi, my niece's name was chosen from 'Who's the Boss?' too. Except they already had a child's name beginning with A in the family so it's 'Elyssa' instead

We chose the name Olivier for our first son as I really liked it as we had a family friend with the same name and thought it would suit our boy.

While I was pregnant with our second child we advertised for a tradesperson to come and do some painting for us for one of our rental properties and a guy that replieds name was "Sebastien" and he was French - I really liked the way he pronounced his name on the phone ha ha. I had also heard the name on TV as there is a famous rally car driver called Sebastien Loeb (sp?) so we decided to go with that name.

We love both our boys names

We had a special girls name picked out years ago and really struggled to come up with something just as special for a boy. We went through the dictionary and took the first letter off each word as this is how DH had come up with our girls name. Eventually I got to the word sharper and thought perfect. I checked there weren't too many Harper's around. I also looked at people's last names to see if any of those would suit. I'm so happy with his name though. When he was born there was no doubt in our minds, it was just nice to put a face to the name at last.

Thanks ladies!

You can find the finished product here.