Favorite girls' names: Adair, Adelle, Lucia, Piper, Aven, Emory, Margo,
Why we love these names: Most of them are family names
How we searched for names: sifting through our babynames.com and searching by our favorite first letters, looking at our family history, including MFTW's genealogy chart.
How we chose our name: We had picked a boy name that JR had contributed the first name to and I had contributed the middle name to. When we told JR's mom what we were thinking, she suggested a different first name (one that we had strongly considered, but not in this combination) and we loved it immediately. JR sealed the deal when he came up with the perfect nickname. So it was settled in the Holland-East kitchen in Tulsa, Oklahoma on February 18, 2011.
We were so pleased with this boy name and couldn't ever come up with a girl name that felt as "perfect" to us as our boy name did. I was hoping this was a sign that we would have a boy! Fortunately, when the doctor told us we were expecting a little boy, we got to call him by name right away: Arthur Scott Holland ("Ash" for short, from his initials).
Arthur is JR's maternal grandfather's middle name and Scott is my father's first name. I hoped that our baby name would have some weighty, consequential name like "God's gift to all the world" but when I looked up the meanings I found that Arthur means "bear" and Scott means "Person from Scotland." So...our little bear from Scotland is all we have for now, but I'll do some more research and maybe little Ash will define his own name for us. More importantly, we hope that the significance of Ash's name will be derived from the legacy that Robert Arthur Borlase and Scott Templeton Walker have left for him to follow.
Our first gift with Arthur's name: thanks, Mom
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