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We looked through several baby books, then I decided to jump on a website that had the top names in Australia. My husband is from there and I thought it would be nice to use a popular name from there.

I'm no help, Jews name their kids after deceased family members so we wrote down a list of our deceased grandparents and great grandparents and picked from that. We wanted it to be someone that we've either met or our parents have because we want to be able to tell stories to LO about how she got her name.

I googled and looked by culture. I wanted something that reflected her heritage. We ended up choosing a Gaelic name, my husband is German/Irish.

I looked for names everywhere and we could never agree. The way we came up with our current girl name is a co worker's niece and it stuck with me after a story one time. So no one I personally know or anyone in our families know. I'm excited we finally agreed on a name.

okay, we were no where CLOSE to a name for our girl. most names i suggested, my hubby crossed it off. well, we got her korean name, which means "wisdom"... so i looked up baby name meanings and turns out sonia and sophia mean wisdom. we were leaning towards either of those names. i'm leaning towards sonia only because sophia is so popular.... but alas, my husband doesn't want sonia - he wants sophia. and i've like sophia since i was young.... SO.... that's how we picked the girls name. but we're not set in stone with that name. i think rachel and vivian are in the running.

@Mrs. Bee: that's so funny! what made you decide to have a "food" name?

@tequiero21: i actually like the name apple (named my dog apple long before gwyneth's daughter was born) so that's where i got the idea.

When I was a freshman in HS, I read Great Expectations decided that I was going to have a "Pip" someday so that's where we got Piper,
@tequiero21: I love the name Vivian!

This is really hard for me. I'm at a loss for something for a girl that's unique but not hard to pronounce, elegant but still fun.

I think Nameberry is a great site, as well. I used it to find our first and middle name.

@mediagirl: Ha, with my first I had her name picked about a year before she was conceived...

I'm not sure where we found any of our possible names now that I think about it. Mostly we would just think of something and then text it to each other or talk about it and yay or nay it.

A friend of mine picked her daughter's name by watching the credits of movies. They couldn't decide on one so they watched the credits for everything they watched (movies and tv shows) until they found one they agreed on.

All of my cousins on my mom's side have Biblical names or names that are at least based on a Biblical name. I have a hyphenated first name, and the first part of my name is a combination of my mom's and two grandmother's names.

Since we don't know the gender yet, we're in the process of creating short lists of both girl and boy names. For boy names, DH only seems to like names that are linked with comic book characters (think Clark, Bruce, etc.). For girl names, he's only approving musical words that can double as names. My number one girl's name I actually picked out when I was in high school because I thought it was a pretty word that would make a nice name. Now that we're actually expecting, it's become a popular name, so our current #1 girl name is a variant of that word.

We just heard of someone named of that name that we liked, looked up the meaning and it was beautiful. The middle name, we combined our Mom's names and looked up the meaning and thought it was perfect. But my now everyone thinks we copied Twilight since the main character combined her mom's names. But we didn't even know about it until she was nearly a year old. So much for originality. Oh and the names cultural tie-in meanings, as well.