Just for fun! Multiple votes for multiple kids!
Eta: I think I made up some words there. 
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Just liked the first names. Middle names are family names.
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I said "family significance" and "traditionalness" because I didn't know how else to describe the names we have picked. They're family names, to start. It was important to me to pick names that aren't so common that there will be other kids with the same names in every class, but that are recognizable enough that people will know how to spell and pronounce the names. I also wanted names that were versatile enough that they can sound professional, approachable, cute for a baby, and appropriate for an adult.
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I voted other. Ours was ease of spelling/pronunciation.
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How they sound with our last name.
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Equal parts family significance and just liking it.
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For my first I said family significance.
For the second, his first name we picked because we just thought it was a good/strong/classic name. So I picked traditional ness, although "just liked it" would have worked too. His middle name is of personal significance.
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So many of these things. Sound, traditional was, uniqueness, family, beauty. I think I love names beyond what is reasonable!
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Lo's name is kind of an amalgamation of family names while still being a real, classic name that's somewhat unusual but not super out there as well. And, it fits our ethnic/religious heritage. And, we really liked it!
Second lo's name, when we have a second, will most likely just be a name we like
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Just a name we liked. We didn't have any "rules."
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@nana87: now I need to know!
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Something uncommon! I wanted him to be the only T in his class.
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Gotta like them while they are somewhat traditional. Not unusual or unique or made up. Not complicated. Middle names are family names
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@Mrs. Jacks: Haha I was just thinking I made that sound super mysterious , whoops! Her name is Rosalie
we have multiple Rose- surnames in our families plus a Lee, so that's the combination part. Plus is cutesy while still will work as a professional name.
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Uniqueness--I loved some very popular names for girls right now, but didn't want DD to deal with having many other children with the same name in school. And personal significance--she is named after a city my husband loves (I still haven't been there yet though! One day.)
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We started with lists of saints' names ... so, tradition!
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DH wanted a name that had a nickname. It was important to both of our families that our child have a Catholic saint's name as either their first or their middle name.
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@honeybear: @ladybee: we also drew inspiration from the saints. You don't get any more "classic" than that!
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The most important factor for me is that it sounds good in Spanish and English. I didn't want the name butchered in either language. DS1's name is one that we both liked. DS2 is named after my grandfather. I don't love the full name in English but the nickname sounds fine.
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Honestly, we just needed to agree! Haha, that was hard enough. Though we did want something classic but not top 20 (although now it's more and more popular every year *sigh*), and a traditional spelling.
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Ours was meaning, and then we also like the actual name
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Their middle names are family names. For the first names, we just needed to find something we agreed on. We wanted names that weren't super popular, but not weird. Easy to spell and pronounce. My husband did not want long names that needed nicknames. I did not want them to be religious/Biblical. And, we had twins so we needed two that sounded alright together but didn't want them to be matchy twin names. We settled on Alice and Blake.
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@Mrs. Jacks: very true! Our girl name is Olivia which I've loved for years. Not a saint but close to saint Olive.
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I didn't want a super popular name, yet wanted a classic name.
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@ladybee: our second daughter's name isn't a saint, but her middle is Mae, which basically derives from Mary... So we're covered. Need a good saintly boy name too.
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We wanted names that would be familiar to our English and Spanish families. We wanted classic names with modern nicknames that didn't have negative meanings. Also, DH has very different taste than I do so we needed to agree. DD2's name took all forty weeks for agreement,
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For the first name- we'll pick a name we really, really like.
For the middle name- I'd like to honor someone on my side since our kid(s) will have my husband's last name.
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DH was dead set on naming DD after his mother who passed away, so family significance was our top consideration obviously. I liked that it was a unique but easy to pronounce name as well and she wouldn't be 1 out of 6 in her class with the same name. For #2, it's going to be much harder bc we don't have really any more family names, so it's just going to be something we like.
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@Mrs. Jacks: that's my middle name choice! Thanks for pointing that out. We did Matthew Robert. Almost did Andrew. Second boy will be Ryan Matthew or Ryan Michael.
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@Mamasig: we also had language considerations, it had to work in both French and English. After that, we just liked the names we picked. DS's name ended up having family ties, but it was completely coincidental.
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@ladybee: it's a good one. So much meaning! Have you considered Ryan Joseph? So classic.
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Uniqueness and just liked it. Although they will never find their names on personalized novelties. Middle names are family names.
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@Mrs. Jacks: No but I love that! Joseph was my husband's grandfathers middle name so he'd love it.
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My plan always was a unique name. I have a name that was unique for most of my life but is now becoming popular and i liked being the "only" one with my name. We ended up keeping J's birth name because it suited him and we liked the meaning. And since its a korean name, it's unique as well so it worked out!
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Just liked it, but it was also important to me that it would sound okay when they were older, like on a resume, for example. I'm not a fan of really trendy names.
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@Andrea: same here!
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Top consideration was future prospects. Like it or not, people judge, so not off the wall names or Kreaytuv spellings. My child is not my billboard to announce my special snowflakeness and questionable literacy practices on. ETA: I'm not necessarily refering to unusual names so much as made-up left field names.
After that it was a family name that happens to be classic and spelled correctly that I love and so did DH. But I'd rather have a child with a name I don't particularly care for than some awful botch up of letters or sounds.
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@ladybee: on my Irish Catholic side, for generations they alternated John and Joseph every generation. The father would be Joseph John and the some would be John Joseph. Makes my genealogy research really hard! So to me it is the quintessential Catholic boy name!
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@farawayviolet: lol at special snowflake! You ARE a special snowflake
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