THE NAME

Many people have asked us about how we came up with the name Quinlan John and what does his name mean…so we thought you might like to know!

During John and I’s courtship, one of the first things he told me was that he really liked the name Quinn (Quinn is John’s mom’s maiden name) and that he wanted to name his firstborn child this name and that his future wife had better like it! J Well, lucky for him, I loved the name. Well, after a few years of marriage as we got closer to starting a family, we started talking more about names for our children. We decided that as much as we liked the name Quinn, we thought it night be nice to alter it just a bit. That’s how we settled on Quinlan – it still incorporated Quinn, but was unique as well.

The meaning of the name Quinlan is “Fit, shapely and strong”. We thought we would go with this meaning versus the other meaning for Quinlan which is “Born from a handsome descendent” though John (and probably Grandpa Darling as well) likes this meaning an awful lot! J

And lastly, Quinlan’s middle name is in honor of his dear papa!!

Note: We plan to keep his name as Quinlan and not shorten it to Quinn - in case inquiring minds wanted to know!