So, DH and I have had a plan for ages for our firstborn's names. They are very nice names, we think, but we also picked them because they came with silly in jokes between the two of us.
We have always said we'd call our firstborn 'Morgan Victor'. Victor because that's always the middle name of the firstborn son in DH's family (him, his father, his grandfather, all the way back to the 18th century) and Morgan was originally a joke because it sounded vaguely like a pirate, and I said I would call my firstborn 'Morgan' and raise him from birth to be a pirate because we need more pirates in this world. And it sort of stuck. Plus, it's a good solid Welsh name and DH is Welsh.
Then a while ago I commented that if I had a girl, I'd name her 'Mary Susannah', as in 'Mary Sue' and that way she'd have to be perfect. But 'Mary' is also a family name for me - my grandmother, and my mother and sister all had it as a middle name, and when I thought about it, I realized I'd really like the tradition to carry on.
Anyway, we're planning on starting our family soon and I mentioned our names to a friend and she said she hated 'joke' names and thought it was stupid, especially 'Mary Sue'. I said if we had a girl she'd be 'Mary' and I also thought the jokes were kind of subtle and weren't intrusive. Am I being unreasonable? Or can I get away with my names. I really like them as names too. I just also like that we picked them for slightly silly reasons that seem appropriate for our family.