The Name Game - Again!

Laura and Jason (with little Mika onboard)

 Since my daughter-in-law is expecting again, it's been fun to come up with possible names.  Of course, I realize that Jason and Laura will choose the baby's name ultimately.  But to pass the time, it has been fun to pass along names as I think of them or as I find nice names in my reading.

1.  One of the first lists I made was of names that I just already liked.  That was a no-brainer.  Names like Harmony, Austin, Liam, Aidan, Autumn, and Stefan.

2.  Then I polled the Commander.  I think he came up with Cassandra and Edward.  I dutifully passed them along.  I also polled my sister-in-law, whose opinion I value.  She contributed such names as Summer, she liked Stefan, and I think she contributed Cody although I'm starting to get a little fuzzy on who liked what.

3.  This morning, since I couldn't sleep in thanks to these darn sinuses, I thought it might be fun to check out some place names.  Since Laura's family is in Texas and our family is in Pennsylvania, I took out the atlas and looked at all the town names to see if I could come up with any inspiration from those.  I also widened the search a tad to include Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio since our roots and relatives include those states.  Here's what I came up with:  Avalon, Bryn, Devon, Shiloh, Addison, Blessing, Sierra, Trinity, Madeira, Amelia, Clare, Milan, Temperance, Dallas, Parker, Penndel, Bryson, Grayson, Joshua, Camden, Fraser, and Mason.

I'm automatically leaving off parental names since that can get a little sticky unless the kids are planning to have four children, two of each sex so that every parent can have a name represented.  Ha!

So what method did you use to pick your children's names?  I find the whole process fascinating.