What’s in a name…?

Imogen Louise Alice.

Those are the names we end up giving our baby girl. And here are some versions of the meanings of these names:
In Irish, the name Imogen means- image of her mother. In English, the name Imogen means- Innocent. The name of the heroine of Shakespeares play Cymbehoe as a result of a printing error in the Folio edition of the play. (was originally Innogen).
In German, the name Louise means- a famous warrior. In French, the name Louise means- Feminine form of Louis: Famous warrior. Renowned fighter.
In Celtic, the name Alice means- Noble. In English, the name Alice means- Of the nobility. From the German Adalheidis meaning nobility, and the French Adeliz which is a form of Adelaide. Used in Britian since the 12th century; Alice became very popular in 1865 when Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland was published.
So she’s an innocent bub who will look like her mum, fight hard and is of the nobility…
Ok so we didn’t choose the names because of the meanings.
We knew she was a girl, even before we were told at 19 weeks. So at about 16 weeks we bought this name book and Rhys would read a new letter out loud every night. When he got to the start of ‘I’ he said, “what about Imogen” and I agreed that was a very nice name, but shut up and read all the I names from the beginning, don’t start at Im.
I think I had really liked Arabella, Astrid and Amelia at this point (the primacy effect at work, perhaps?)
But when we saw her little face and was told that yes she was a girl, when I got into the car after that scan I put my hand on my belly and said “Imogen.” And that was it, from then on when it was just Rhys and I around she was Immy.
Louise is my middle name, Alan is one of Rhys’s, so I thought an Al- girls name would be nice, and I thought Alice was pretty.