She and husband Jim-Bob welcomed 19 kids beginning in 1988 with Joshua.

Do you sense a theme here?

“There’s no quick answer, but it started with our first child.

the Duggar family

Emotionally, we loved the Bible name Joshua.

In fact, most of these names don’t even appear in the bible.

The decision became pretty obvious after the first few Duggar children were born.

Michelle Duggar and her husband Jim-Bob Duggar

Because they might say, ‘Why didn’t you name me with a J?'”

Michelle wrote in theaforementioned blog.

Jessa’s older sisterJill DuggarDillard and her hubby, Derick, named their two boys Israel and Samuel.