How did you decide your children's names?

Posted with permission from my children.I'm a proud papa of 5, all of whom are budding etymologists. My youngest son always liked getting told his "name story" when he was stressed as a little one, and we've sort of reverted to that now that we're all cooped up and under so much stress. I wanted to share my kids's "name stories" and if any of you guys wanted to share too, that'd be super interesting.Our eldest is Josephine Indigo. She was originally going to be Marjorie Morrissey, but my ex-wife ended up reading "Little Women" while she was pregnant and wanted our daughter to have that strength and confidence. She goes by Jo these days, and has the spirit to match her namesake. We didn't really decide on Indigo until a few days after she was born. It was Josephine Morrissey on the birth certificate until my mother-in-law brought us a book about the rainbow, and we flipped through it, and Indigo just sounded right for our girl. I've always been a little bit granola with my name choices, the kids don't mind, though.Our twins are Cosima Rose and Ripley Fox. We had this feeling that it would be boy/boy the entire pregnancy, and planned on Cosmo Hunt and Ripley Fox. Then, out pops girl/boy and we had to reshuffle a little bit. We were already pretty married to Cosmo, and Cosima being the feminine form worked so perfectly. We gave her the middle name Rose after my mother's favorite flower. Ripley was named after Robert Ripley, of Ripley's Believe It or Not. My dad collected the books and comics for a long time, so we decided to honor him there. And Fox just came out of no where.Then, we have MacKenzie Morgan - the plainest of our naming choices, but one of the most colorful kids on the planet. We felt that we'd picked very gendered names with our other three, and wanted something really neutral, something that he could grow into. We knew that MacKenzie was mostly a girl's name, but it just spoke to us. Now that he's older, he hates to be called MacKenzie and mostly goes by Morgan - which we pulled out of a baby name book. Morgan's name is the only one I really, truly regret, just because he can't stand it now.Our (4 yr. old) baby is Juno Leigh. Her name has always been very simple to us - we found mythology to be a great inspiration to us, and everybody really loved Juno. We thought about Hera, but we could never connect to it the same way that we did with Juno. Leigh was the middle name of my late sister in law, who passed away very shortly before Juno came into our lives, so we chose to honor her and give her a connection to our daughter in that way.How did you name your kids? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2Uzkwev