Why did your parents name you the name you have?

[low-key]

While I was nice and comfy in moms belly, they seen a movie and I dont now the name of it, but it was one them over done plots, where someone is mentally challenged but starts taking "smart pills" and his whole life change but has to stop taking pills and "jason" in the end goes back to being mentally challenged

 

[ChickieToo]

Low-key, was the movie "Charlie" based on the book "Flowers for Algernon?"

 

[Cantw8]

Because Marylin Monroe was taken

 

[powellrj]

I was named after a local tv stars wife.

 

[Cubbiecakes]

My birth name was my father's first name, my weirdo uncle's given name, and my second middle name was a "family" name from my mother's family.

Please do not give your child four names. It's terrible.

I hated all three of my given names, so I took the opportunity when I turned 18 to ditch them all and picked a first and (single) middle name that *I* liked.

 

[Pixiedustaway]

My mom named me. Claims she started the Sarah trend of the mid 70's.

My dad named my sister and brother.

 

[Miranda Danda]

My dad was a narcotics detective in the 70s, taught at the police academy, and was then a Police Chief. He named me after the Miranda Rights.... "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do or say can and will be held against you in the court of law....."
I was probably the only three year old who could recite these rights perfectly. Lol!

 

[Carriemel]

I was named for my mom's mother.

I named my little girl Emma, and discovered something about that name. Turns out that my DH's family had an "Anna Amelia" who went by Emma, and there was an Emma about 4 generations back in my family. Here, I thought I named my kid after Emma Watson.

 

[leebee]

When we named DD, we decided we wouldn't name her after anyone; we wanted her to have her own name. We chose an old New England name and a pretty middle name to go with it. We didn't know anyone by either name, and thought it was a good choice. Of course, in the early 1990s we hadn't yet heard of Sarah Michelle Gellar I swear that DD wasn't named after her.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Well I was going to be named Molly Richele (Richele being my middle name). But it was ruled out and then I was named Mackenzie (won't put my middle name on here). At the time Mackenzie was not common at all. In fact I remember being like 7/8yrs old looking at the baby name small booklets they had at the checkout lane and my name was in the boy's section of the baby book. While it is considered a unisex name I myself have personally never known or known through a friend of a friend a Mackenzie who was a male. It used to be hard to find things like key chains and whatnot with my name on it and spelled the way I do but it has become a much more common of a name. There are all sorts of ways of spelling my name but I honestly like the way my parents chose to spell it the best.

My sister's middle name was taken from my paternal grandmother's first name though.

 

[rastahomie]

I can't verify this story, since I've never met the guy, but my mother and father both swear by the following story:

Until about two days before I was born, I was going to be Nicholas Aaron [MyLastName]. Nicholas was a good friend of my dad's who had gone to Vietnam and served honorably. However, Nick brought the war home with him. One day Dad read in the paper that he'd been thrown in the clink for beating his wife within an inch of her life. Dad decided he didn't want that negative energy attached to me, so he and Mom changed it to Aaron Nicholas [MyLastName].

Aaron is a good name. A strong, Biblical name that is neither too common (Matthew, John), nor too obscure (Hezekiah, Gomer).

These days everyone just calls me "Homie." Strangely enough, that's my dad's nickname as well. So whenever I'm at his place playing Saturday night playing Texas Hold 'Em, invariably someone will say "Homie!" to get his attention, and we'll both say "What?!"

 

[klmall]

My name (Kathy) was proposed as an alternative to both sets of grandparents arguing over what to name me. I was the first grandaughter. If they had their way I would have been Pansy Ruth (mother's side) or Violet (father's side)? Mom jokes that they would have nicknamed me "Posey"!!! You can see that my grandmothers were born and named in the 'flower era" and I don't mean flower power .

Everyone thought Kathy was a good choice and unique but we found out about 10 years later that there was a distant relative with my exact name!

 

[goofyernmost]

Mine was pretty simple. I was named after my father. Nothing exciting to even think about. My middle name is different so I am not a junior and that was done because they didn't want to have confusion. My father was always known by his first name (same as mine) so they gave me a second name that was different and that is what I was known as until I got into high school and insisted that I be called by my first name. Now I have gone through life having to remember who knows me by what name.

When my daughters were born the first one was named by my wife. She chose a short three letter name so it couldn't be shortened. It was Amy... so all her friends ended up calling her Am (aim). Her middle name was the same as my wife's mothers name. My second daughter was named by me. I had a rough time with this one then I heard a name that I really loved so we called her Julie. Again one that really shouldn't have needed to be shortened, but, she ended up being called Jul, even by me. Her middle name was after my sister.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

because the name seemed to be wildly popular at the time

 

[goofyernmost]

because the name seemed to be wildly popular at the time

We thought that the name Amy was unique and up until that point it was. However, being from a relatively small community in Vermont, the day she was born 5 other Amy's were introduced to life as well. I sometimes wondered if we took home the right one.

 

[Saimaeve]

I was named after my aunt and grandmother. (My aunt and I share a first name but she has never used it. She's always used her middle name)

My grandmother's middle name is my first name.

My middle name is as 80's as you can get and my parents just liked the way it sounded together. I am not a fan of my middle name.

 

[trip]

My first name is my mothers'middle name and my middle name is one of my Great Aunts name. My brother's first name is my great grandfathers name and his middle name is my grandfathers name. My mom's side of the family tended to reuse names.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

My middle name is my dad's first name. It's tradition in the male side of my family for at least 5 generations. My first name? No idea.

 

[lizabu]

I have a weird story. When my dad was in the military he was stationed in Austria. There was this singer at a country western bar named Beth who he was enamoured with. So much so that he reenlisted. When he told her the good news that he was sticking around he learned that she had a boyfriend and was not interested. Then he ended up going to Vietnam but based on his stories Vietnam was beaches and swimming but having to watch out for sharks and funny stories about doing bad things to food they were going to serve to higher ups they didn't like (he was a cook). When he got back to the US he met my mom, they got married etc etc. When she was expecting me he suggested the name Elizabeth, she liked it and there you go. Years later the whole Beth story came out.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Well I was going to be named Molly Richele (Richele being my middle name). But it was ruled out and then I was named Mackenzie (won't put my middle name on here). At the time Mackenzie was not common at all. In fact I remember being like 7/8yrs old looking at the baby name small booklets they had at the checkout lane and my name was in the boy's section of the baby book. While it is considered a unisex name I myself have personally never known or known through a friend of a friend a Mackenzie who was a male. It used to be hard to find things like key chains and whatnot with my name on it and spelled the way I do but it has become a much more common of a name. There are all sorts of ways of spelling my name but I honestly like the way my parents chose to spell it the best.

My sister's middle name was taken from my paternal grandmother's first name though.

I knew a Mackenzie (he also went by Kenzie) who was about 20 in the mid eighties. He was a cutie, too.