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SO: Name questions...
After reading the Jessica Simpson thread... I got to thinking.
Has no one questioned their parents of why they chose to name you what they did?
I hate mine. Not enough to change it, because answering to something else would give me a headache, but I am not too fond of being named after booze. My middle name is pretty terrible too, but not as bad since I was named after someone we knew, and she is an awesome lady.
But I did go through that period of... "Why?!?" that drove my mom and dad nuts.
Anyway, what say you, MN, do you agree with your parents choice for your name?
Re: SO: Name questions...
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I am indifferent. My name is a fairly common 80's classic with a twist. I don't love it and I don't hate it. I like my mn a lot and I used to wish it was my first name.
My parents had one boy name (David Zachary) and 3 girls names. If I was blonde I would have been Kelly Rose. If I was brunette I got my name and if I was a red head I would have been Siobhan with some weird middle name I can't remember. I'm happy with the one I ended up with.
Ok, I hated my name throughout all of grade school. I was named after my first stepdad's ex girlfriend.
Then in junior high, I changed the pronunciation, and have loved it ever since. It is very unique. Frenchy, kind of. Well, it means song or rocky place in french, which I find fitting.
Now, my last name...let's just say on our second wedding anniversary DH drove to the BMV and sat there. Until I changed it. F*cking last name. Blech.
I would probably have picked a different name because everyone calls me Maria or Mary and not Marie. It's annoying.
It was both my grandma's middle names so they gave it to me for my first.
I love my name. My full name is Afton Marie. My mom didn't want me to have a common name because her's was so common so she tried to find something different. My grandmother heard it on a game show and told my mom. Mom thought Dad would think she was nuts, but he said okay if the baby is a girl her name will be Afton Marie. If I was a boy I would have been Trevor Allen.
I get called Ashton, Austin, and Ashlynn a lot but it doesn't bother me so much.
I don't really mind my name. It can be a boy or girl name but my spelling is the "girl" way. It's not an uncommon name but I was the only one I knew growing up. I was also supposed to be a boy so my parents didn't have a girl name picked out. I was "Baby girl Last name" for 3 days in the hospital.
I wanted my name to be Kelly as in Kapowski from Saved By the Bell. I thought that was the best name ever!
wait. what? not trying to pry, just confused. I'm assuming your mom was married to your stepdad when you were born? (biological father was out of the picture?) and the stepdad wanted to name his wife's kid after his ex girlfriend? Is that right?
My mom named me after a soap opera character. My mom watched it (hopes landing or something) when she was on bedrest whilst pregnant. The character was apparently really beautiful and had red hair.
My siblings were all named after family, for some reason it used to bug me that I was the only one not to have a family name. Upon thinking about other family names, I'm fine with what I was named. My middle name was decided by a bunch of aunts and uncles with my parents at a get together bc my mom couldn't figure out a name that sounded good.
I mean I asked them. But once I had the answer, what's left to ask?
I changed my name
Could it be Knotts Landing?
My mom was OBSESSED with that show.
I changed my name
It's funny when things like that work out.
My parents named me my name because it was something they liked. I was always jealous of my sister whose first and middle names were significant (she was named after my mom's best friend and her middle name is my mom's name). It makes me feel like they just picked a random name for me out of a baby name book.
When DH and I were picking a name for LO, I made sure that it has some significance to it so when she asks she will feel special and know that we put a lot of thought into it.
Pretty much. Lol. My mom is kind of a slore, but as of now her act is cleaning up. We'll see how long that lasts.
I hated my name growing up because a) everyone I went to school with had common names likes Kim, Lauren, and Anne and b) my family called me a shortened version of my actual name and I was annoyed they gave me a boy's name.
Now I love it. My full name is *poof* and I love it. I think moving away and only ever introducing myself as *poof* helped.
I have a rare male name. My dad named me. I always hated it growing up. I had several nick names I went by, all of which were also male names that reminded people of my first name. Now that I'm older, I don't mind my name so much but hate having to repeat myself 5 or 6 times every time I introduce myself to someone. No one ever gets it right the first few times.
My dad named me after a girl he knew in college. He said she was the coolest chick he'd ever met. She could be a lady in when she needed to be but was also one of the guys when she wanted to be. She played football when ever there was a pick up game. She was a hunter. He said she was the perfect chick. When I was born, he said he wanted a daughter that was just like her. He got one.
Both my first and middle names are family names. I like them well enough.
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That is kind of funny. I can't even imagine my husband suggesting we name our kid after his ex-girlfriend!
As an adult, I love my name and can't imagine being called anything different. When I hear my name, I know that I'm the intended person. I've met less than 10 people with the same first name. It influenced how I/we came up with names when pregnant. I like unique girls names, but traditional names for boys.
FWIW, my parents did not have a boy's name picked up when I was born. They'd put all their money on having a girl--and got lucky! (ETA--I was born well before ultrasounds were used to learn the sex of an unborn baby.)
My older sister is named after my dad's HS girlfriend. Her middle name was my aunt's first name.
My first name is after my father's late mother and it's also my mother's middle name. My dad was squicked out about calling me by my first name since his mom had been dead so long, so they had to come up with another name. They gave me a second first name (very Catholic) and my mom's maiden name as a middle, so I go by those two initials.
My brother's first name is the same as my dad's, but his middle name is just one that my parents liked. Fourth kid is also just a name my mom liked, after an Irish saint. By the time they got to kid #5, my parents narrowed it down to two names. The day my mom and baby were supposed to be discharged from the hospital, my dad came home and the four older kids took a vote for which we liked better. Her name suits her well, so I think we did a good job.