What inspired your baby name choice?

Oops - Dar not Dara. Autocorrect.

Namechange

Saul Walter?
Peter Jesse?
Brody Hank?
Dara Pinkman?

(My two favourite box sets!)

We had no names in mind.....ds1 was delivered by a junior doctor-asked what his name was and when he told us we thought yeap love it.....his middle name is late brothers.
Ds2.....we didnt have a clue-after 6weeks we settled on his name-he also has my db's name as his middle name.
Both names can be shortened and sound good together.

Homeland and Breaking Bad
Can you guess what my DS is called?!

@mumsiedarlingrevolta oh wow! Quite ahead of my little one then haha. It's a name I had never really heard and now I keep seeing/hearing it

Dd1 has a name which has been a mn in my family for generations but never a first name. Mn is his dad's first name.
Dd1 was a compromise between names her dad and I liked mn my MN which was my grand name.
Dd2 had a totally different name until dh(2) said she didnt suit it. He suggested her name and it really suits her. Mn family name dh side.
Ds4...who knows? We can't agree! Luckily we have a while to decide.

Dd1 has a Scottish name as I'm Scots born, also the name of William Wallace's wife in Braveheart. Middle name is my Nan's middle name.
Dd2 was always going to be her name from the minute we found out her sex. I always wanted an Eden.
DS - DH picked! No idea where it came from, he just really liked it.

Never really fell in love with a name so 3 days post baby just picked one I sort of liked. It's grown on me. Can't imagine lo being called anything now.

After the slobby Walter Mathau character in The Odd Couple, there was so much negativity around Felix, that we didn't even bother putting it on our list - even though it's an ace name and I still love it.

Or the grouchy one who lives in a bin in Sesame Street

We wanted something international (he has: English, Irish, German, French and Spanish blood!) that all relatives could spell. He doesn't have a middle name because as we're in Spain he has two surnames. Four is a bit excessive here.

He loves his name and has quite a lot of things with his name on (toy lorry, mug, fairy lights, keyring etc).

I was named my name because it was the 70s and quite popular, it is a classic name thank god. My middle name, however, is HORRENDOUS and really smacks of 1973

Dd1 was named after a child I taught in school, I heard her name and had never heard that name before, loved it and knew then I'd call a dd it if I had one. Dh wasn't keen but I just referred to bump as the name from when we found out and he came round! Now it is a super popular name!! Dd2 was named by dh, just a name he loved and he chose very well, it's suits her immensley

Both of my children have parents names as middle names.
Dc1 was a girl so got my mums name as a middle name, my mum is amazing and we felt it was a nice tribute to her. Dc2 was a boy so has my late dads name as his middle name. My dad died before either dc were born but it felt like a nice way of keeping him with us.

Both dcs first names were inspired by pop culture... dd from new girl, and ds is named after a pretty iconic sci-fi actor.

I asked my mum once how she chose mine and my brothers names and she said 'you/he just looked like an X'. Neither name had been decided before and they didn't have short lists or anything, our names just came to her. Me and dh spent months suggesting and vetoing names.

My son's first name is my dad's middle name which I already loved and his middle name is a character from DH's favourite book.
DD's first name came from a nickname I loved through pregnancy and right at the end we decided on her name to give that nickname. I am completely in love with her full name though and we get lots of comments on it. Her middle name is from the same book as DS's.

I was obsessed with the musical Hamilton when I was pregnant.

Still am, it's a great musical.

Both my children are named after literary classics.

First name is my grandad’s name who died when I was young. It was a no brained as my partner said he liked the name when we first started dating so it was always going to be the name of we ever had a boy.
Middle name comes from a film

Ds1 is named literally the only boys name I could agree upon with my ex

Dd1 is named after my gramdmother.

DS2 is called what I would have named DS1 if my ex hadn't been so objectionable.

DD2 was named after a girl in a song that DH and I loved.

DS3 is named after an archangel or a ninja turtle

@Sleepyquest 19!!
She is brilliant-I have gotten so many compliments over the years-I love her name.

Congrats on your baby Clementine

And her middle name is my middle name, and my mums and my grandmas and her mums etc. I love that.
DD has already said she will give to her daughter as a middle name.
I love the link and the family continuity

@mumsiedarlingrevolta I've just had baby Clementine! How old is yours? X

DH wanted names that were a bit Scottish
I wanted names that had some kind of history to them.
Middle names were our dads’ middle names.

I was reading a book of the letters of Clementine and Winston Churchill when I found I was pregnant.
She was fascinating.
My DD is Clementine.

My son is named after my late grandfather, who died just after I was born, middle name of my fil, same middle name as my dh. If he'd been a girl he was going to have the feminine version of my grandfathers name with my mils as middle name.

The criteria were:

Something that could be shortened as my name can't.

Something not in the top 100 ( that backfired as 23 years later it's in top 20).

Three names as I only have one.

One of her names is May as she was due 15th may. She was three weeks early!

DD1- I found it in a baby name book, not unheard of but was used mostly in America, particularly Hawaii. I read it means moon goddess. Her middle names are my GM’s name and my favourite breed of dog.

DS1- he has a combination name that I have not seen anywhere, even googling brings up nothing. I couldn’t decide between the two names and mashed them together. I get so many comments as it sounds very similar to one of the names, and everyone has said how lovely it is. Middle names are Paternal GGF and my uncle’s names.

DD2- she’s named after a character from a TV series but despite it being a beautiful name she goes by her animal name middle name.

DS2- his is the most commonly used name, my mum chose it and he has his paternal GF’s name and his dad’s favourite footballer as middle names.