With my oldest daughter, we looked at all of these resources to find a name. Books, the internet, even family history. None of them seemed to fit this precious creature.

My wife ended up having an emergency c-section and our oldest daughter was born one month to the day early. Being new parents and the anxiety of an emergency c-section, we really hadn’t had a name picked out yet. We had some ideas but still none of them seemed to fit. 

After the emergency procedure and the arrival of a healthy premature baby, my wife and I sat in the hospital room asking what we should name her.

We got the paperwork and thought it had to be filled out in the hospital. So we talked about people that had influenced us instead of ideas from a book, the internet or our heritage. 

One specific instance came to my wife of a doctor's lecture she had attended where he discussed changing ourselves. This doctor introduced his wife and talked of the importance of how she had changed him.

This struck my wife and she suggested using the name of this doctor's wife to name our daughter. So we did. She is still very precious to us, therefore, I am not going to list her name here. 

That is how important the name of my daughter is to me. I don’t even want you to know what it is. 

As you research the name of your special people in your life, consider these factors.