slo’s WEDNESDAY 10/8 poll - Your First Name

[slo]

We all have a name - none of us are exempt from that. At one time, not many people knew our name, but now with social media, our name is everywhere. Not many people on The DIS want people to know their name, which is ok, but I personally don’t care. Today we’re going to talk about our first names, but you don’t have to divulge that it you don’t want to. What are we going to discuss you ask? Let’s discuss if we like our name and where it came from. So put on your name tag and tell us today……


Do you like your first name?
Are you named after anybody?
If yes….who?
(multiple choice)

*If you’d like information about your first name, take a look at this website….
https://www.behindthename.com/
If you do this, and feel comfortable, share something about your name from this website



For Me……I like my name. I didn’t as a kid, but I like it now. I put Sandra into the website and I found out that my name is from Alessandra - I never knew that. I never go by Sandra though, and only a few people call me by that name - my FIL and a few of our elderly men patients do (just for fun). There’s nothing special behind me name - my dad picked out my first name and my mom picked out my middle name. I love the idea of having a name after somebody, so when our girls were born, DD27’s middle name is my grandma’s first name and DD22’s middle name is my DH’s grandma’s first name. I love having the grandma’s names continue on through them.

 

[pinkxray]

My first name is Diane. I was born in the early 80s. No one my age has the name Diane. I have always wondered why my parents picked it. I never really came across other Diane’s when I was younger. When I started my current job there were two other Diane’s and 2 Diana’s. All about 20 years older than me. I don’t dislike the name for other people as much as I dislike for me. I don’t dislike Diana and wish my parents had picked that instead.

I also dislike my middle name. I have an older sister and I feel like my parents just went to the baby name book and picked the name after my sisters middle since that was taken.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Not named after anyone I know my sister was named after a soap opera character but my name I have no clue I like the fact that there was only one other kid in the school that had my name and I’ve only run into two other people in my 40 years of working that also have my name so I think it saved to assume there’s not a lot of people with my name
My name is welsh in origin
When I picked my kids names both of them their middle names are named after somebody their first names or not
My kids names one of them is French in origin and the other one is Welsh - both my kids hate their first name

 

[amcnj]

I guess I just never thought about it much. It was always just my name and never bothered me in any way, so I must be ok with it. I go by a nickname, a common shorter version of the full name.

My father had the same first name, and we both used the same nickname, which led to some issues over the years. “Big” and “little” were often added to try and distinguish us to a caller say, but when I ended up taller than my father was, that didn’t always help either!

 

[kanerf]

I am named after my Uncle, my Mother's brother. Since he is gone now, as is my Mother, I carry on the Uncle duties in his name.

 

[Meriweather]

My name is okay. I like it more now .
Named after a friend of my mother's.
My middle name is my mother's middle name. It's the name she always used.

 

[Kitty 34]

I'm named after my Mom. It's OK but I have always gone by my nickname Kitty. I have been called Kitty for as long as I can remember.

 

[Wood Nymph]

I like my name - Susan. It was one of the more popular names in that time period. My middle name is a modernized version of my grandmother's name. I really like my middle name.

 

[leebee]

My first name is Lee and I am OK with it now. I am named after my grandfather, Leo. I wasn't happy with the spelling of my name thru junior high and high school, even into college, because it's the "masculine" spelling, so note paper, mugs, pens, etc. were brown or dark green, had planes or trains or something like that, when I wanted pink, lavender, flowers and butterflies. However... I am now accustomed to people spelling my name in correctly (Leigh or Lea) and honestly don't really care anymore.

 

[clappyclaps]

I don't particularly love my name (Sarah) but I don't hate it either. And I wasn't named after anyone in particular.

I used to get a bit frustrated with my name as it was very common when I was a child, but that doesn't really bother me anymore.

 

[ronandannette]

I’ve never liked it. It’s never been “fashionable” although it was more common about a generation before I was born. I’m not sure where my Mother came up with it - it doesn’t have any family connection or connection to our ethnic roots.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I'm not named after anyone (not even my middle name) but my sister's middle name is named after my grandmother on my father's side.

I don't know exactly why my parents came up with my name other than they were perusing baby name books, back then though even though my name is considered (and was then) a unisex name it was in the boy's section of the baby book for many years. I used to look for it when I was in the grocery check out lane as a kid in those small baby book name (and meaning) books. After some point it was added to the girl's section. And as it gained popularity over the years souvenirs that have your name on it also became popular. I remember being super excited the first time I saw one at my local zoo a necklace with my name, spelled the way my name is spelled, I was super giddy as a tween.

I've had different nicknames over the years from people some have made more sense than others lol.

 

[Disneylover99]

I’ve never liked it. It’s never been “fashionable” although it was more common about a generation before I was born. I’m not sure where my Mother came up with it - it doesn’t have any family connection or connection to our ethnic roots.

You know. For years I thought your name was Ronan, and I thought, that was such a pretty Irish name. I’ve heard it a few times as a boys name, but never for a girl.
But I couldn’t figure out who Dannette was.