If I like a name but not the meaning, it still goes on my list. If I like the meaning but not the name, it doesn't. For example:

Amelia (our current #1 name if bubs is a girl) = "Work of the Lord." Love the name, don't love the meaning. (it also means "work" or "effort" which is more fitting, but that doesn't help my example )

Anuenue = "Rainbow." Love the meaning, don't love the name.

Iris = "Rainbow" as well. I love the name and the meaning, so it was at the top of my list for a while. But Scott doesn't like it

With Ianto, it sort of worked retroactively. We already had his name picked out, but it fit what happened quite perfectly. Both Ianto and Jack are characters in Torchwood. In the show, Ianto died. Jack can't die. OUR Ianto Jack died, but his memory will never die. I thought that was pretty fitting when I worked that out