How do you ACTUALLY pick a name?

Settling on a name can be a bit of a journey. Billions of names (especially for girls) and one person to name! This is my experience of naming a person:
I am one of six girls and I was always interested in names for girls. When I found out I was having a boy I was shocked! I found somewhere between 5 & 10 names that I really liked (he’s 17 now, the details are hazy). Then I saw his name, [name_u]Beck[/name_u], in the credits of a TV programme. I really liked it and we started calling him that. The name did not get a good reception from anyone and I experienced a dose of name doubt. However, we didn’t find anything we liked more. When he was born, he looked like a [name_u]Beck[/name_u]. I let my two best friends at the time each choose him a middle name. They chose more popular names and I thought that if he didn’t like his name he could go by one of his middles. He does like his name :slight_smile:

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