My wife and I discussed kids names when we discussed whether we would eventually want any. We decided on four names. Two for boys and two for girls. For daughters, the names we decided on were: Emma Alice, after my grandmothers, and Discordia Anne, after the goddess of chaos and the fact that we like the name Anne. For boys we settled on Reuben Ray, after my grandfathers, and Cieran Hamish, because those are names we always liked. It was interesting that my wife and I had come up with most of these names for kids separately.

Now that being said, I can give you a fun name from my family tree. My maternal grandfather's middle name was Quintes. Not Quint, not Quinton, but Quintes. No one in the family, including him could ever tell me why. But when you think that his parents were named Columbus Alonzo Cox and Narcissa Miller, the picture becomes a little clearer.

One thing I must say about the naming of children and then I'm off the subject. Please, by all that is good and right in the universe do not ever do what my ex did and insist on giving a child the name Mary Marie. There's just no bloody need for something like that.