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We have cut a name for our DD that we both really liked when we looked up the meaning.

Manslaughter wasn't very appealing...

I would check out all the sites for what the name means and if it's always "lame" I would find something else. Good luck finding a name you like!

@honeybear: same.

It's too hard to pick out a name as it is! Unless it was awful or an actual word in another language, I wouldn't worry too much.

Claudia!

We considered name meanings if they were negative. I definitely looked up the meaning of my name when I was growing up and liked that it had different meanings in different cultures. It made me feel special. I didn't want my girls to look their names up and feel badly about the meanings.
That said, my eldest daughters name was used by Shakespeare and suffers a pretty horrific tragedy. Her name meaning is really pretty though.

I dont give it much importance at all. Also where are you getting these meanings? Unless its a clear direct translation from another language, its hard to imagine names to go with those. Plus I feel like you can google any name and practically get 10 different "meanings".

I don't really care as long as it isn't extremely negative.

Our LO's name means either "ray of light" or "dark one" depending on which language it's used in... I liked the name enough to use it and hope he leaned toward the ray of light meaning.

With LO1 I wasn't too concerned about the meaning. Her name means dawn which I thought was sweet. Then we had over a year of pre-dawn wakeups and the name meaning started to bother me. I certainly don't think her name choice had an impact on her wake up time, it was more of a joke. However, I made sure LO2's name didn't mean anything that I thought would bother me if it were tied to his actions/personality. He has a profession-type name.

Some importance!
DD's middlemiddle name is Grace and has special meaning to us, based on it's origin!
DS will be a JR but I love DH's namename and meaning

Not important to us at all. DD's name meaning is something super religious and we're super not religious but we love her name.

I think there's a difference between a name's definition and its meaning. We chose names that have great meaning to me and DH - namesakes, religion, family and style were all considerations. That meaning was more important to me than the dictionary definition (though who wouldn't like a lovely definition, if that happened to match). A blogger I read, Abby Sandel at Appellation Mountain had a quote that summed it up well:
"Mallory doesn’t mean sorrowful if your parents met in Mallory, Indiana. Then it means ‘small town where my parents met.’ And if your parents happened to meet there because it was a dark and stormy night, and your mom had a flat tire and the repair shop was closed and your dad just happened to be in town for a meeting and suddenly, there they were nursing coffee at the Mallory Diner just one seat apart … well, then your name means ‘serendipity, twist of fate."

The last thing I'll say is that I'm super dubious of some of the definitions people find for baby names, some good and some bad.

Doesn't really matter to us.

DS1's name means "from South Munster" (one of ancient Ireland's five regions). DS is only a teeny tiny bit Irish.

DS2's name means "feller" or "hewer" in Hebrew.

Neither have particularly stellar meanings lol