Hahaha, a few people without my naming technic have offered up names such as Bernard, I call it the 100 year rule and it is mine and mine allone wah hahaha! any way it goes like this, names go in 20 year cyclies, as it it start to become popular gets into the top 20 and then fall out, not touched for the next 80 years, so I took the decision to look at names from the 30's and 40's, get in quick as it where, your Edwards, Edwins, Douglas's, Alan's, Sidney's, John, Peter, Francis, Ronald,.
I was point blank refused by my husband, on the names from my family tree, Burten and Rainer from the 1880's to 1930's and maybe further as I haven't got any further in my tree, there where an awful lot of them as first or second name or combined, even in the same generation, as in cousins, no idea where the name came from, I suspect maiden names, but not found any ladies with those maiden names yet, and never seen them in a book, but I thought they where cool :)
my favourate name of a ancestor I have found was laurence lashings Ireland, I think it was? something on those lines, put me in mind of Lord flashheart in Blackadder :)
We didn't fix names until moments after my boys where born, my husband was desparate for a boy to be named after him, as he was named after his father, I refused, but the minute the second twin came out and was also a boy, I told him he could have his wish if our second could be named for my Dad who had died the year before and they where born on my Mum's birthday, who was also deceased.
it was only 8 weeks after regstering their births I realised that their second names Nicolas and Christopher, where a little too like our cats names...Nicki and Kizzy, I always thank god we didn't have triplets otherwise we would have one with a name like spock our 3rd cat :)