Hello, My Name is...

What's in a name? This is a question that has plagued me since....well, yesterday. Let me go back to the beginning.
We went to Tim's sister's birthday party yesterday, which was fun since it was 112 degrees and supposed to be an outside cookout (I camped out with Peggy in the kitchen to enjoy air conditioning and everyone else soon followed). Well, Mary, Tim's sister, is also preggers, and is almost 13 weeks along. She and her husband John are in the "We're not telling anyone our baby name til birth" camp, which is their perogative, but Mary had previously laid claim to a family name that Tim and I wanted to use if possible. So, figuring I had nothing to lose since we already had a girl name we liked, I asked Mary "So, if it's a girl, are you still going with Allison?" Keep in mind, Allison is Tim's dad's middle name (like my niece Britton, it was originally a male name), and we had liked "Emily Allison" from the get-go. However, at a family dinner at Bonefish back in May, Mary made the comment "I've always like Dad's middle name for a girl and call her Allie". So you see the dilemma!
Well, Mary says, much to my surprise, "No, we thought about it ,but I have a girl's name I like better". Yea! It's free for us to use! And Tim doublechecked with Mary today that the name was free and clear, and she said "Sure, use it. Fine with me".
Long story short, our baby girl is now "Emily Allison" and I am not changing it again for the life of me! When it came down to it, Tim wanted to use a family name, and on his side my choices were Velma, Regina, and Sally, and on my side, I had Camm, Jill, and Nancy. Wow, what a choice! Allison it is!