What inspired your DC names?

A character in a (bad) film and a car 😂😂😂

Makes it sound much worse than it is! It's actually a lovely name that fits perfectly with his surname.

At the age of 11 I went on a school camping trip to a village called Llanrhidian in Gower. It means 'St. Rhidian's Church' but absolutely nothing is known about this old saint or why the place was named after him. Rhidian/Rhydian is not a wildly unusual name in South Wales and I remember tucking it away and thinking 'I might use that one day'. When I found out I was pregnant, I gleefully produced a huge list of names, and DH, who's a university lecturer and teaches 200-odd students every year, vetoed them all because of previous associations with rude/thick/smelly students. 'Rhidian' was the only name he'd never encountered before and didn't veto!

I only recognise you from the PLL thread.

Samuel is after my dad whose nickname was Sam (his actual first name was David). We considered Davis for him too. His middle name is after Jim Morrison.

Frederick was just a name we liked, and his middle name is after Robert Plant.

Emilia was my mum's choice of name. My name was going to be Amelia if she had her way, so we chose to go with it (but with the Emilia spelling) for DD1. Her middle name is after a character in a Hunter S. Thompson novel.

Lily Rose was going to be named Sawyer, but most people had strong adverse reactions to it, so we went with something that's the total opposite. We also considered Lillian. Her middle name is Maybellene after the Chuck Berry song (apt because she was born less than 2 months before he passed away).

DS has an obscure Irish name that came to me as I was throwing up (morning sickness, hah!) on my way home from work in the dark. Some very nice Pakistani medical students used to get so concerned about me hanging onto the wall across from their house and heaving that they used to bring me out a chair and a glass of water.

Ds is named after my favourite Beatles song and Bob Dylan.

Dc2 is on the way and the names we've picked this time are just names we like. No special meaning behind them.

First names- heritage related
Middle names- family names

Hahaha so very nearly did my boy have the name of an actual Guernsey rock!

We just registered our 10 day old this morning. He is named after a couple of fairly low-key land/sea marks that are of great significance to his dad and me's first few months together. We actually said at the time " and our first son will be X and our daughter Y". And he was literally nearly a rock!

Ds1 has a name I've always loved.It just so happens it be and really popular soon after he was born.
Ds2 is named after an actor it's unusual.So it's a 24 carrot name😀😚
Ds3 is a name i wouldn't have picked wasn't only radar,but it jumped out at us.
Ds 4 is named after one of my favorite marvel characters.He had a film out Andi's stepping down from that role.
Ds 5 name with the last letter of then alphabet.ILove it and it suits him

DS's name was one we just stumbled across in the baby name book. We had 3 names we liked- it was the front runner, but we wanted to check it suited him before committing. It really does! His middle name is DH's first name.

My son's first name was a name I'd always liked and was considered both Welsh and Irish (which I have both in my family).

Our son has two middle names, the first is after my husband as its tradition in his family for the first son to take the fathers name. The second was a traditional family name from my side of the family where the first son would be given the same middle name

Edelweiss is an awesome middle name, I only wish I'd thought of it!

Both of my children are named after much loved members of my family (I always knew I wanted a James and a Jennifer) with slightly more unusual middle names chosen from their dads' sides.

My DC each have one Irish name and one English name to reflect their heritage.

The Irish names have anglicised spellings so as not to confuse the English side of the family and because they were growing up in England.

Two of the DC have family middle names, but they are names that I liked. I wouldn't give my children a name I don't like just to honour family, so that meant all the grandparents' names were automatically out.

DS3's middle name was picked for its meaning.

Ds1 name is Irish celtic and means brave warrior in battle. We had a few scares during pregnancy with him, it was also a name of a steven segal character in a film. Hadn't really heard of it up until then but after he was born met a few girls with the same name.
Dc2 name is Hebrew for gift from God, chose that name as I got pregnant a couple of months from a mc and up until then wasn't sure if I would go through a pregnancy.
Dc3 I couldn't think of any girls names but the midwife put the radio on after she was born and it was the name of a well known song and it just felt right.
Dc4 was born early and poorly his name is Welsh celtic and means spirit of battle and after spending 3 days not sure if he would pull through it seemed to fit. It's not a popular name on here but I love it for him.
Dc5 her dad picked it it's a Greek name that means beautiful.
Dc6 his name isn't popular for a boy on here but it's a tree that in old mythology is supposed to be a protective tree. I had a bad bleed and needed an early scan to confirm a mc but he was still there and we was told it looked like I had been pregnant with twins and had lost one so his name seemed to fit.
Dc7 is either going to be freyja or Celeste haven't quite picked yet.

Both of ours are named after saints who are important to us and whom we hope they can grow up to admire too. Their middle names are the saints whose feast days are their birthdays (only one each!)

Dd is named after the production company that produced Dh favourite TV show.

Her middle name is MIL's name.

Yes, feed :)

Dd after a song and ds after mine and dh's favourite singer

DD1 - born in April, named after the roman goddess of spring.

So... Flora? If yes? I'm super jealous... I can't use Flora but love the name so much!

When DD was born nurse asked her name and DH jumped in!! All the paperwork was done and dusted before I had chance - so I named the next 2!!

One has his fathers middle name as a first name -

The other came tonmenin your bath!

Seasons/months.

DD1 - born in April, named after the roman goddess of spring.
DD2 - born end of July, named after a Shakespeare heroine of the same name :)

DH chose DS's.

DS has an Old Testament name.
We're not religious but felt it was as strong and attractive.

DD's name is Russian. A couple of pre revolution princesses and numerous characters in Russian literature. And it's the name of a friend's elder sister. And I always liked it.

My dd was named after Molly from the movie ghost.