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Our LO will be named for our maternal grandmothers. If we were having a boy, he'd be for our maternal grandfathers.

We picked our first names because we liked them. We actually picked them in less than a half hour while laying in bed 3 days after we found out I was pregnant. The middle names are family names.

My maternal grandmother was my hero and my partner's paternal grandmother's name went really well with it. So presto! The perfect name!

However, we are stressing out big time about coming up with a name for #2. We want to love it as much as Cecilia's name, and I just can't imagine anything that will be that good!

Charlotte is after a male friend of mine (veteran of BOTH world wars, faithful husband, great father - his kids adore me too, and befriended an awkward 6 year old girl when he was 96 or so, and remembered me despite an 18 month hiatus in another state. He died at 102, still living independently) - but I had a psycho ex with the same legal name, so I had to use it for a girl.
Grace is a family name on his side (his paternal grandma's name).
Alexander is a name he thinks is awesome (Alexander the Great!).
Ray is my paternal grandpa's name (he was such a good guy that both my brother and I are using it as a middle name.)
Secondary names are:
David James (he likes the name David, which is my dad's middle name. His maternal grandpa's name was James, and I adore the name.)
Bethany/Amelia Jane (Two of the kindest, most sincere friends I've had were named Bethany. Amelia after the Doctor Who companion AND for the nickname Molly, if my husband vetoes Bethany Jane. Jane as in Wendy's daughter from Peter Pan - which my husband is oddly OK with.)

2 of our 3 girl names are family names that we both love, the 3rd is from a song we adore.

We're a little more up in the air about boy names. My #1 choice is DH's middle name, modified (Evan instead of Evans) which was also his dad's middle name, and his grandmother's maiden name. The other name we like was just one we read on a baby name list that we both liked.

We tried to find unique names but would look everywhere. From artists, singers, actors, movie characters .etc.
We ended up choosing Mavrick. (Top Gun!

for a boy we will name him after DH's dad who died when he was 12. His middle name will be somewhat different: Danger. For a girl I am leaning towards a classic name like Olivia or Ava. Her middle name will either by my sister's middle name (Nastassja) or my grandmother's name (Miyo). I like names that are both classic and original at the same time.