But it was no easy thing to pick a name.

"Is he the one who picked your name for you?"

"We pick names and get a present for that one individual."

"It was like picking a name out of the phone book."

It looks as if we couldn't have picked a less appropriate name.

He picked my name off somewhere and hit me with it.

I once asked him why he picked such a curious name.

Perhaps I should have picked a name with even more distance from myself, but it was the first thing that came to mind.

He always picked strange names just to see if she'd say something.

"I thought I'd wait and let it pick its own name when it's older."