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.

 

[Jasper&Bowie]

I was named after both of my grandmothers. There is a hyphen in my first name and a lot of computer systems don't allow it (including my driver's license). My passport does have the hyphen.

 

[monsterkitty]

I have never gone by my first name. From day one my parents called me by my middle name. This is fine by me because I hate my first name! (it was a really popular name and 4 other girls in my first-grade class had the same name.)

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

My poor mother who loved my birth name had to live with almost never calling me that unless she was mad at me!

I never liked my given name. I think it was because I much preferred my nickname. I honestly do not know who started calling me that. I was in grade school in the 60's and around 3rd grade I had the courage to ask teachers to be called my nickname. When I applied for my SS# for my 1st job, I put the nickname down and it was sent to me with the nickname. Funny though, they always issued the tax refund check in my given name. It wasn't until I married that my true given and married last name were updated on my SS card.
I have one CC with my nickname and I have one bank account with my nickname. I've given in to all else because of the hassle it creates.
When we named our kids it was very important to me that their names would be the names they would always be called.
I didn't want them to have my issues, LOL. It worked!

added: both my parents went by their middle names. I never could understand that. Now I've been trying to do ancestry background, it makes things so much harder!

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

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.

I understand never seeing my name( nickname) on anything as a kid. I was always so disappointed whenever I turned the turnstile and nothing, ever!

 

[Kooks and Bay Bay]

I love my first name except for the fact that no one can pronounce it correctly.
If I even think someone is referring to me I'll answer even though they are not saying anything close to my name.

 

[loves to dive]

I'm not crazy about my first name but I don't hate it. I'm not named after anyone and have no middle name. According to my Daddy that was so that I would not drop my maiden name if I got married (which I didn't and dropped the married name when I divorced). In most cases, my name is a shortened version of a more formal name. Not in my case, it is just what it is, not short for anything. My grand daughter was named the formal version and they do call her that. According to my parents, they just liked the name but I'm not buying it. When you combine it with my last name there is too much of a coincidence for it to be accidental. These are the parents that by the time they got to the fifth boy were tired of coming up with names so named him Teddie B. Not Theodore, Teddie. No middle name just B (it doesn't even have a period after it). There is a theory amongst us kids that it was short for Teddy Bear but my parents always denied it. My Daddy called him BooBoo Bear. At some point when he was a baby one of the older brother's shortened that to Boo and that was what he went by his entire life, it was even on his marriage certificate. My oldest brother named his first boy Justin Tyme. Tell me we don't come from a family of people who don't think before they name their children.

 

[soccerdad72]

I've always been fine with my first name - as far as I know, I'm not named after anyone (my middle name is my father's).

The only issue I've had with my name is the spelling (and occasionally the pronunciation). I'm Stephen (not Steven or Stefan). That's why it's easier to go by Steve.