The criteria we used for naming our daughter:
- Easy to spell
- Easy to pronouce (our last name is hard enough to pronounce already)
- Pretty (Girls should have a pretty name.)
- Won't make people cringe (Hi, meet my daughter Gertrude)
- Hasn't been used in our family before (OK, since I have around 50 cousins and most of them have kids, this one was difficult.)
I think we did well.
Erma Bombeck once wrote about naming children and said that whatever name you were thinking about, you should stand on your front porch and scream it as loud as you can several times. If you still like it after that, then use it.