BABY NAMES, what are your faves?

[SWTXBelle]

Were my last child a girl, she would have been named Catherine Acadiana - and called Cady. (Both my family and my husband's have a strong LA background.) He was a boy - William Henry - called "Liam".

I like using family names, or names with a connection. My eldest, Victoria Caroline, was named Victoria because 1.) I was in graduate school studying Victorian lit. when she was born and 2.) my Norwegian grandfather was named Tor. The Caroline is in homage to her father's family in North and South Carolina. My next girl's middle name, Alexandra, was because my mother is Sandra, and she was present at the birth. My first son is Jackson because that is my maternal grandmother's maiden name (wish it hadn't caught on with non-Jackson families!) and his middle name is Peter because his great-grandfather by that name was a sculptor in New Orleans, and our baby was baptized at St. Peter's Church. William Henry was named for his paternal great-grandfather. His father wanted to name him William Belcher (the family name) but I convinced him to use the ancestor's Christian names. Belcher? As a middle name????