Why did your parents name you the name you have?

[dotfurio]

My parents were teachers. They named me after their favorite female students the year I was born (first and middle name).

 

[Wendy31]

My mom actually wanted to name me Penelope & call me Penny. Dad liked Wendy better, &, for whatever reason, he won. My middle name is a version of my Mom's middle name.

I've been told he liked the name Wendy because of the song like another PP mentioned, but I've also been told I was named after Wendy, Casper's friendly witch. When you ask either one of them now, they just say they liked the way Wendy sounded.

I grew up not really liking the name & thinking it sounded too much like all the other names ending in the "ee" sound of the decade - Becky, Debbie, Kelly, Lori, Stacy, etc.

I always wanted a more literary sounding name like Elizabeth. One day, however, I read where J. M. Barrie (the author of Peter Pan) was the one who actually first used the name. So now I really like my name!

 

[kimblebee]

I was named after the Kimberley diamond mines. My name is ly, though.

 

[wenrob]

Saw the group Association in '68. Loved the songs Windy and Cherish.

I've always thought of it as "my" song even though I tend to believe my dad's version of events.

I always wanted a more literary sounding name like Elizabeth. One day, however, I read where J. M. Barrie (the author of Peter Pan) was the one who actually first used the name. So now I really like my name!

I've always liked my name because my dad gave it to me but when I heard this, I liked it even more. A clerk at Blockbuster video told me.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

I am named after my mother. She is named after her grandmother that died when her father (my grandfather) was a small child.

My mother got pregnant very young with me. My grandfather didn't speak to my mother for 7 months. A few weeks before she delivered me he told her to name me after his mother. She did and they started speaking to eachother again after I was born.

 

[tvguy]

No idea where my first name came from.
My middle name is my Grandmother's (my dad's mom's) maiden name. It is the name my parents wanted me known by and I have been all my life. . Only use my first name on legal documents.
My parents felt my full name flowed better with my middle name as the middle name, not as the first name.
My son has my first name as his middle name.
My daughter has my wife's middle name as her middle name.

My dad never had a middle name.
My mom dropped her first name when she became a U.S. Citizen.

 

[MinnieMouse84]

I was named after my great-grandfather. My name isn't very similar to his, but I like the idea behind it.

 

[cmarsh31]

No agreement when I was born - but in the late 70s? Sure. Carly Simon. Spent the next 10+ years saying yes, I was named after her... now, no one remembers her

 

[runwad]

I was named after my mom's baby sister who died before my mom was even born. But my mom liked the name so I got it. It's ethnic and it's caused me a lot of grief because its not pronounced how it's spelled so everyone ALWAYS says it wrong. Plus I could never find my name on a bike license plate, or an ornament or key chain either. That's very disheartening for a kid. My kids all have easy to pronounce if not common names.

 

[adisneyaunt]

All my siblings and I were given first names that do not have Nicknames. Mine was suppossed to end in an "a" but mom thought it was too ethnic so they made it an "e" instead. I would have preferred the A, lol.
My bro and sil named all their kids with the letter B... some unusual at the time but now much more common.

My Only regret is that I did not keep my maiden name ( hyphenated) Or give it to my ds as a middle name. My maiden name is last generation
Our surname is my sons' responsibility to carry forward... or that too will end.
Fingers crossed for the carrying on of the name.

 

[RainbowBrite]

Thirteen years before I was even born my mom had seen a horror movie called Mark of the Devil that she really liked, and she always told me there was a really cute guy in the movie whose character's name was Christian. Since I didn't turn out to be a boy she named me a a female variation of the name. She was due on Halloween, though I was born early. I don't like straight up horror movies, but I do have a lot for all things spooky.

 

[xlsm]

My mom wanted to name me Lauren, but my dad said no because he thought it was based on a soap opera character, and that apparently made it "not ok"?? He picked my first name, which is long, and my mom then came up with a short middle name to go with it. I've never liked my name, but I do prefer to go by the full name and not a shortened version. People automatically shorten it without asking, and it drives me crazy.

 

[ols386]

I was adopted at the age of 18 months (but my parents got custody of me at 10 month old). They didn't really like my given name so they changed it to my current name. Was not named after anyone though.

 

[scrapquitler]

Being the first born I was named after my Mom, whom was named after her mom, whom was named after her mom.

Eta......I'm sure I have some grammar issues with that sentence!!

My name (Tracey) is a different spelling of a great uncle's surname (Tracy). If I were a boy, I would have been Tracy instead of Tracey.

My middle name is my mother's first name.

 

[leebee]

My father wanted to name me after my 2 grandmothers; I would have been Dorothy Agnes. My mom said "Not over my dead body!" My first name, Lee, is for my grandfather, Leo. My middle name, Ellen, is for my Aunt Eleanor (my dad's sister) who died about 10 years before I was born.

 

[ols386]

Saw the group Association in '68. Loved the songs Windy and Cherish.

Yes, I love those songs too.

 

[ShayBells]

I was named after Shea Stadium. My mom wanted shealynn but my dad didn't like it so she made up a name and went with it. I have never and will never find a keychain which didn't bother me until the coke bottle

My middle name was a girl version of an uncle's name.

As for my sister and brother they both got common names and I'm the youngest.

 

[Meriweather]

First name after a family friend. Middle name is the same as my mother's middle name (she actually used her middle name all the time)

 

[Dinohood]

My mom liked the name from a bathrobe she had, sad to say in the year of 89 it was big so when i was in middle school or high school there were always three other girls with that name yay for the name Amanda, at lest it is not that bad when my sister's kid was in middle school she show me her yearbook there was a little boy by the name of Rex.

 

[tinkerbellandeeyor]

My name is the only girl name my parents had on hand