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DH and I are both teachers, so there were a lot of names that were absolute negatives because of associations with past students.

For our girl name, I saw "Hadley" on TV. I think it was a reality show called Southern Belles and there was a girl named Hadley on it. I fell in love with the name because I'd never heard of it before (its grown in popularity over the past few years but its still out of the top 200 lists). DH is a history buff and apparently there was some company during WWI (maybe?) named "Handley Page," so he really wanted the middle name to be Paige.

For our boy name, I honestly can't remember how I came up with Nathan. We both just really liked it I think. The middle name will be Dean after my dad's middle name.

I love names, so I've looked at a lot of websites, but none really had the "it" factor of the names we've chosen. Probably not really helpful, but maybe it will just pop in your head after hearing it and you'll know? Good luck!

C's first name is Charlotte, a name I have loved since I was a kid. Her middle name, June, is DH's grandmother's name.

For our next LO, if it's a boy we are thinking Franklin Joseph. (DH's father passed away and his name was Frank Joseph.) If it's a girl, I'm angling for Caroline or Audrey Josephine. Josephine is my grandmother's name. Caroline would give both our girls the same initials. lol

C didn't have a name until the day she was born. Her name is the one we both ended up liking best after many fights about it. We were watching a movie and there was a character with the name and that's how we started talking about it.

@Meggo5: Baby name searching made my head explode! We had a perfect boy name, and then found out we were having a girl. We didn't have any hard-care prospects, so I literally spent hours upon hours searching baby name lists on the internet until my eyeballs pretty much fell out. And we still are not 100% on a middle name, but it was so much work to get a first name that we need a break:)

I used a lot of those websites and stuff, but I liked when we would find names while watching TV or movies. We would not only discuss our likes/dislikes of various character names, but we would look at the actors' names in the credits at the beginning/end of each show and discuss what we thought of those.

We found our 'winning' name as a character's name actually.

Anything we both agreed on got onto our 'list'. We had about 3 girl and 3 boy names.

Then the day we were about to find out if it was a boy or girl (not team green), just hours before, it felt right to come to a decision for boy and for girl.

We waited until she was born to decide on the perfect name. We had narrowed down our name list to a couple of names and thought she would end up with one of those, but it turned out that she didn't actually look like either of the names - neither fit her at all!

She was born during a pretty amazing and sudden storm that only lasted as long as her delivery, and so we searched after she was born for a name that had something to do with a storm. We ended up with Eleanor, which means "ray of sunlight". It was important to both my husband and I that LO get a name that meant something to us, not just one we picked, so there we are!

We knew we wanted a junior, so that makes things super easy for a boy. For a girl, I'm not sure how we came to the consensus but we both like Elizabeth. No Elizabeths on either side of the family, except maybe very distant.

Our only real criteria was that it be a traditional name that everyone knows how to spell (like David, Thomas, George, William) because we have to spell our last name all the time, and I have to spell out my first name too. The only alternative spelling I've seen is Elisabeth but it's not super common.

nymbler.com is really cool too!