Do what I did… sit around the hospital room for two days after the c-section and go name-for-name thru a book with over 100,000 baby names. Write down a list of your favorites for each letter and then present those to your wife.
Now, to do it right, you cannot just hand the list over. You’ll need to read them to her one by one. With and without your last name. And you’ll likely need to throw in combinations with the various middle names you might have in consideration. Play around with nicknames… especially ending with an ”-ey” sound, because that’s what you’ll do. James-ey. Jack-ey. Washington-ey. Milton-ey… you get it.
Be ready to duck objects flung at your head because your wife won’t enjoy being stressed by naming when she’s already stressed post-partum. And it’s really fun when the hospital administration staff come in saying you better give them a name by such-and-such time later today.
Be sure to fully investigate possible negative nicknames. And as I can see you’ve been doing already, make sure you don’t pick a name already in use by friends of yours for their kid.
Also, if you’re planning on having more kids, you’ll need to be thinking about that, too. Are you going to start all your kids’ names with the same letter? Or the starting letter of the parent of the same sex? Will your kids’ names rhyme? Or follow some theme? If you’re going to name this kid after some ancestor, will you intend to do the same for the rest? Should the name be easy to recognize/spell? Or do you want to throw in some funky letters?
Whatever you do, please come back and tell us what you chose.