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My husband and I have had these same conversations with my in-laws. No pressure about having kids, but mostly about coming up with the most outlandish names possible. You can use the following names we considered, with our compliments:

1. Tariq Terwilliger (Gibraltar is actually derived from the Arabic for "Tariq's Rock"--gibral-al-tariq, or something like that)
2. Tamerlane Terwilliger
3. Attila Terwilliger
4. Genghis Terwilliger
5. Percival Terwilliger
6. Adolf Terwilliger
7. Destiny Terwilliger
8. Quantum Terwilliger
9. Clodomiro Terwilliger
10. Yochabel Terwilliger
11. Enoch Terwilliger
12. Salome Terwilliger
13. Caligula Terwilliger
14. Lucifer Terwilliger
15. Nero Terwilliger
16. Vladimir Terwilliger
17. James Carville Terwilliger
18. Oswald Terwilliger
19. Sigfreid Terwilliger
20. Augustus Terwilliger
21. Julius Terwilliger
22. Pierre Gustav Toutant Terwilliger (as in General P.G.T. Beauregard)
23. Horatio Terwilliger
24. Joaquin Terwilliger
25. Menachem Terwilliger
26. Wilbur or Orville Terwilliger
27. Ophelia Terwilliger
28. Othello Terwilliger
29. Macbeth Terwilliger
30. St. John Terwilliger (pronounced 'sinjun')

Ya left off Carroll Eugene Terwilliger!

I've got a cousin named Carroll Eugene, but have never heard anyone call him by that except his mama. We just call him Bubba. Yeah, buddy, I'm from Texas. ;-)