It was quite a surprise when [Lynda] turned out to be a girl. We hadn’t even considered. I mean, he never had expressed to me that he would be disappointed if it was a girl. He had been very careful about that. But we had talked about boys’ names. We had not talked about girls’ names. It was Mrs.[Rebekah] Johnson who, I think, just the night or two before I went to the hospital, had said, ‘Well, now what if it is a girl? What are you going to name it?’ We both had a sort of a blank stare, and she said, ‘Why don’t you name it after both of you?’ I guess she prudently thought this might be the only one. So she said, ‘Name it Lynda Bird, and spell it with a L [Y].’ That suited me fine; I loved it.
Lady Bird Johnson, Oral History Interview XVIII, 9/26-27/80, by Michael L. Gillette, p31, LBJ Library. Online: http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/Johnson-C/CTJ%2018.pdf

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