Who were you named after?

My middle name is an old (and slightly odd) Biblical one, which my father had, and his father, and . . .

I'm just glad they didn't give it to me as my first name.

I was named after Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in Gone With The Wind because, "she was the only one in that book that had any damn sense."

My grandfather Joseph Wm. Ekaitis.

The original Regan was actually a boy, too.

My mother, imaginative hosebag that she is, was going to name me after one of my uncles (Robert) if I'd been a boy. No one in my family has any imagination because all the men are called Robert, David or Charles. I'm the first woman in four (or is it five?) generations not to be called Elizabeth.

As it is, she had a dream shortly before going into labour about a blond-haired, blue-eyed boy called Nicholas. Ever the disappointment, I turned out to be female the last time I checked, and was given the feminine of this name.

As it happens, I am now blonde and my contacts are ever-so-slightly blue tinted so one can see them while they're floating in the carry-case full of cleansing solution. Naturally, my eyes are two different colours each, so I'm a disappointment and a freak.

I was named after apostles. I guess one of my middle names is in the family but you have to go seven generations back to spot one person with it.

Kathleen is a family name. My middle name is from a cheesy romance novel my mom was reading while pregnant. No one can pronounce it and I'm not sharing it.

Thankfully, my grandmother talked them out of their first choice which was "Tiffany Skye" . With a name like that, I'd almost have had to become a stripper.

a little blond girl baby that was a foster child in my grandmother's care, until she got adopted.

My parents named me one syllable shy of my grandmother's dead-at-birth-and-only-daughter without realizing it until after the fact. She didnt mention it so they wouldn't; by the time that my mom realized it, I was nine years old so it was a moot point.

My mom named me after a "cute little Asian girl" she went to grade school with. No, they were not buddies, my mom just always thought she and her name were cute. I am most decidedly not petite, not cute, and not Asian. The name, on me, as my husband so eloquently puts it, comes off as "A porn star name." It's never really bugged me, though, as I don't really think about my own name terribly often.

I really like my middle name, though. It's my mom's maiden name but could also be a semi-unusual first name. After some consideration, I think I've decided to lop off the first name and use the middle name instead when I get published.

I'm named after both my grandmothers--my first name is my maternal grandmother's secret first name (it's Sarah, but she only went by Sylvia, for reasons now lost to time), and my middle name is my paternal grandmother's middle name, Elizabeth. Sarah was uber-popular at the time--the worst was summer camp in fifth grade, where 4 out of the 16 girls in the cabin were Sarah, plus another 25 or so Sarahs as campers and counselors in other cabins!

My mom had two best friends Kay and Lee...but mom spelled the last part Lea instead, so I've spent the last three decades correcting people when they call me kay-lee-uh. Kaylea... prounounced KAY-LEE. And now there about eleventymillion Kaylee's with all different kind of spellings but I was the first dammit! I just know it...cuz all those other ones are like...sixteen.

First name was after a girl my mom went to school with. She always admired how the girl was so calm and collected. Ha.

Middle name is a hand me down from grandma to mom to me.

My first name is an original, not named after anyone, and my middle name, Helen, is my mother's middle name. In turn, it is also my daughter's middle name. Of course, she hates it, as all children do.

No idea. Possibly Eleanor of Aquitaine.

My first name is straight from the Bible. As soon as my mom knew she was going to have a girl, she said she knew she would name me Sarah. It means "princess" or "lady".

My middle name was my paternal grandmother's name and is also from the Bible. It's Aramaic and means "little girl" or "maiden".

I'm named after President Nixon's daughter. He was in the WhiteHouse at the time. My mom liked his daughter's name.

My father wanted me named Cassandra if I was a girl and my mother HATED the name, but wouldn't argue with him. When I was born (a girl), she filled out the birth certificate with the name of the main character of the book (not Romance) she was reading: The Story of Andrea S. Fields, Woman Doctor (1960's--I forgive the title, though it was a really cheesy book.)

I hated the name Andrea for my entire life. HATED it. Not that there's anything wrong with the name itself, but it wasn't MY right name. When I was a teen, I discovered that my father had always intended me to be Cassandra. After many years of debate and looking around for MY name, I did change it to Cassandra as my 40th b-day pressie to myself. Got rid of the S and my ex's name all in one swoop. Love it.

My daughter's name came from a family name--Elizabeth. (waits for SP to swoop down on that one.) My father's mother was Gladys Elizabeth and always went by Elizabeth. She died when my father was a young boy. The girls of my generation decided that the first-born girl would be named Elizabeth in her honor. I had that girl. Her father (my ex) is Black and we were both big classic ST fans. Her middle name is Cheron, after the planet in Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. Funny thing is--she was the FOURTH Cheron born that month at that hospital. I was stunned.

My son is the 13th consecutive James in the family. He's legally changing his name to Samuel--with my full support.

Hey, folks can't get it right all the time.

My ex's family has a mondo cool naming tradition for the girls: A daughter gets her mother's middle name as her first name. My sil didn't have a girl, so my daughter is thinking of continuing the family tradition, should she have a girl.

Stew21 said:

I'm named after President Nixon's daughter. He was in the WhiteHouse at the time. My mom liked his daughter's name.

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Nixon had a daughter named Stew? *scratches head* I learn something every day.

I don't know who I was named after. All I know is my mom picked a very unusual spelling of my first name and nobody EVER gets it right.

Oh, I got a good one! So my parents thought I was going to be a boy (they had a hunch or whatever), and if I was, they had a name picked out: Ben Trovato. Which, yes, is Italian, though none of my family have any Italian heritage.

From dictionary.com:

ben trovato: adj. Appropriate even if untrue; happily invented: a story that is ben trovato.

[Italian, from the saying se è non vero, è ben trovato, (even) if it is not true, it is well invented : ben, well + trovato, past participle of trovare, to find, invent.][/B]

I got named like a racehorse

Mom's name is Bettie, Daddy's middle name is Lee.

It helps that we were from Oklahoma.

I hope none of you thought you were getting advice from a wise Chinese person (a'la the Seinfeld episode)

Emily Dickinson.


but you can call me Stacy.

They were so sure that I was going to be a girl, that they didn't even have a boy name picked out for me.

So, after some discussion in the hospital, they named me after my greatgrandfather.