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I was going to be named after my grandmothers, but they were named Ermalee and Agnes, which my parents thought would be odd in this day and age. So they altered each name slightly and I’m Emily Anne.

Originally my name Michelle Charmaine was going to go to my uncle (they thought he was a girl) but since he turned out to be a boy, I was named that instead. Though I know my mom was named after a dead person. Some weird jewish thing. ;/

This is no joke but some random guy in the telephone book

I wasn’t named after anyone in the family, but my sister being the first child she got the family names. However, I was a big surprise, so my mom named me after her favorite characters from the Shakespeare tales, so I was named after the airy spirit Ariel, from ‘the Tempest’ and Olivia from ‘the Twelfth Night’ and that’s how I became Ariel Olivia.

I was named after the Neil Diamond song “Sweet Caroline”

My parents heard it in the car on their first date and decided that if they got married and had kids, that the first girl would be named Caroline.
So, here I am.

My parents chose, for my sister and I, the names at the top of the most popular chart the year we were born. -__- Needless to say, that didn’t go so well for me. In my freshman year of high school there were three girls with the same name as mine in multiple classes. Way to go, uncreative parents.

My husband chose to name our son after a Lost character, Desmond. Pretty sure he had a man crush on the guy, but there’s no telling for sure. On the bright side: I highly doubt there will be more than one Desmond in my son’s classes in the future.

I am the youngest in the family and like the girl above, a surprise. For that reason, all of the family names were taken so my mom made a list of names and came up with mine. She wanted to call me “Haydee Aracely” but my dad just agreed to “Haydee” so I have no middle name. 

For a long time I didn’t like my name, but now that I know what it means, I do like it and a lot, even more because it’s not common. My name’s of Arabic origin and it means “reward, present.”

@JEDIJESSICUH@xanga - DESMOND! I love that so much! I love LOST, that is great

@bass_chick57 - I like the name Agnes.  I suggested it to my fiance and he made a puke noise…so it looks like that one is a no-go   But I think it’s kind of cool.

I was named after my mom’s favorite doll when she was younger. The doll had red hair and brown eyes, although I had brown eyes I didn’t have red hair yet when I was named after it. Then I turned 2 and grew the red hair. She gave me the doll recently and although I unfortunately don’t have the barbie doll figure, its pretty cool how our features are the same. Its also a little weird to be named after a doll.

I wasn’t named after anyone in particular…my mom thought about naming me Amaya, which I think is really cool.  She also considered Mary Elizabeth but I’m glad she didn’t pick that (no offense to anyone named Mary Elizabeth, it just doesn’t mesh with my personality).  I’ve always liked my name except that everybody calls me Melissa by mistake instead of Melinda.  I get tired of correcting them so sometimes I just go with it.

My mom just gave me a name that sounded right with my last name. She’s not much into symbolism and so on -_-

My name is Diamond and I was named after a stripper. -_-

Scarlett O’Hara!

@hot_metalhead@xanga - I like the name Agnes too! One of my best friends is called Agnes and I think it’s really unique

OP: My parents decided that if I was a girl, my dad would name me, and if I was a boy, my mum would – I was a girl and my dad just picked my name because he liked it. Nothing exciting, haha.

I was named after a famous singer my father was a fan of. It was scandalous, because it’s a German(?) name and everyone in the family expected my parents to give me a Chinese name.. because we’re Chinese.
I guess my father wanted to be modern and me to have a name other people can pronounce. It gets mispronounced either way, because it’s a less common name and sounds similar to more popular names and also because people don’t expect me to have a German name. -_- but I’ve come to like having a “unique name”.. after being made fun at school for many years.

My dads name is Joseph and my brothers name is James, so I was bound for a J name. My mom wanted ‘Jo’ incorporated into my name because of my dad, so she named me Joann. My middle name is Marie and that name is after a really good friend of my mothers. 

I wasn’t named after anyone but there is a girl on my softball team that I coach whose name is Peatrice. I just found out that is a name of a character from Zelda…. LOL

My middle name is my great grandmother’s maiden name, Gipson. I adore it. She was such a strong, beautiful, gentle woman, and I look to her for strength and support daily.. I know she’s a guardian angel of mine.

It’s tradition on my mom’s side to give the first born female the middle name “Rae”.  So there a long line of females in my family with the same middle name.

Sooo, someday I have to have a little girl to keep tradition alive.  Otherwise, it ends with me.  No pressure.

I was going to be named  Estrella, which means “star” in Spanish.  My dad knew a body builder named that. I am Spanish so just imagine being called Star in America.My mum decided her daughter was not going to be a hooker so she named me Clara after a book character. Apparently this Clara character was crazy, but still way better than Estrella.

My mom almost named me Charlemagne. Luckily, my dad randomly named me Catherine while she was passed out. I guess it would been all right but I like Catherine.

My mother decided to name me after PAMELA ANDERSON. “WHY?!” “She’s pretty” -__- clearly she was on something. 

My first name is from an African Queen (Queen Amina) & my middle name Dominique is from a character on Dynasty (which is an 80s soap opera). What I find funny is my sister & I both have French middle names (hers is Colette) but as far as I know, we’re not all that french (we have French Creole decent on mom’s side but we dont speak any of the languages). Mom said that was just coincidence. LOL

My mom named me ‘Allison’ after her best friend from college. They don’t speak anymore

My first name is my Grandmother’s maiden name and my middle name is my other Grandmother’s first name. My brother’s name is Michael which is a name that just circulates in my family and my dad was named after John Wayne haha. 

I was named after my grandma, and my middle name is my Aunt’s. I love it

I was named after Mindy off of Mork and Mindy. HAHA. Oh shucks. 

I was named after the song Come On Eileen by the Dexys Midnight Runners because my father liked that song. Every time, I meet someone new, they start singing that song. It’s pretty weird, because I don’t feel like an Eileen. I like my name because it’s different, but it doesn’t match me. I secretly I wish to be serenaded with that song.

I wasn’t named after anyone.  My parents just liked the name Haley.  My middle name is Lynn, and it’s my mom and my grandmother’s middle name.

I am named after a bunch of things! My name is Dakota. I am 1/8th Dakota Sioux and my mom is from Dakota county Minnesota. When she suggested the name to my dad, he said “That’s where John Lennon lived! Yes!” He also agreed to it because he thought the name was unique. In fact, my birth was announced on the radio since I was the first Dakota born in Denver, CO ever. And then the name ended up pretty popular, but oh well. My middle name is Christiana, after my dad’s middle name, Christian, just with an ‘a’ to make it feminine.

Kelly Marie, from my mom’s name Raquel ( -quel = Kel ) and my dad’s name Manuel ( in my mom’s world, the female version of Manuel is Marie. ) My mom says she had my name picked after a month of dating my dad, which I find adorable.

If I was a boy, I would’ve been named Eric Julian after my grandparents.

Kaitlyn Anne

Kaitlyn-my mom up until the week before I was born was dead set on putting me up for adoption.  The week before she was browsing the obituaries and came across a 90+ yr. old woman named Kaitlyn who had just passed away, at the time it wasnt a very popular name and my mother fell in love with it.

Anne- my great grandparents had a baby named Anne.  During the great depression my great grandpa would leave for work everyday leaving his wife and infant daughter.  Everyday the landlady would turn off the heat in the winter until an hr. before he came home so that it looked as if my great grandmother was lying about having no heat.  Soon Anne came down with pnemonia and the landlady still turned the heat off, one day great grandpa came home early to no heat and a dead baby.  A few years later my grandmother was born and when she had my mom(the only girl) she named her Kristen Anne for her older sister she never knew.  The pressures on me to name my first daughter Anne as a tradition. 

I got my first name from my grandpa. (Yes, I’m a girl) I love that I was named after a man lol
My middle name is my aunt’s name, but my family hasn’t spoken to her in years (I think its been about 15 years actually). I’m considering changing it, but I don’t know if a middle name is worth the whole name changing process.

My younger brother was named James after James Dean.  His middle name is my father’s first name, William.  However, there’s no history like that behind my name.  My dad wanted to name me Misty Dawn, but my mom refused because she thought it sounded too much like a stripper, so they compromised and I’m Melissa Dawn.  Oddly, Melissa is Greek for “honey bee” with the “Meli” part meaning “honey”, and I don’t like honey at all.  And another odd coincidence is that I was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes later in life and the full medical term is “Diabetes Mellitus” – the word “Mellitus” is a Latin word meaning “sweetened with honey”.  

I was named after the country singers Keith Whitley, and Lorrie Morgan, thanks to my mom. (My dad didn’t get a say so, since I was a girl.   ) So, I am Whitley Morgan. Which is quite hilarious, cause I actually hate country music.  xD  But I like my name just fine. Except for when people say WhitNey….. That makes me wanna slap people…. 

The main female character in the 1980′s movie Short Circuit was who I’m named after….pretty sure there are better names out there than Stephanie. 

my dad named me after a pretty girl at work. classy right? XP my mom had no choice in the matter cuz my parents had a bet on who would name me (girl = dad names me, boy = mom names me)…. we can see who won in terms of that XD

My first name is from my grandpa Jack – Jaclyn, and my middle name is from my great(?) grandmother Judy – Judith. I have the most unique name in my family currently. My siblings? Katrina, Jon, Stephanie, Cheryl, and Michael. Yeah. Haha

Me and my fiance decided to name our first girl Hazel Avara after his great grandma Hazel and my great great grandma Alvara.
I’m already in love with her haha. Hazel Avara. Hazel Avara. It’s just so…pretty

That Triceratops from Land Before Time.

Yeah. My name is Sara.

Apparently the idea for my first name (Cheyenne) came from some governor’s daughter, and my middle name (Desiree’) came from Napoleon Bonaparte’s mistress…my mom’s a little strange.

I’m very pro-wisdom when it comes to parents deciding on names for their children. Obviously there are HUGE no-no’s that some parents for some reason miss or think is funny. But sometimes even the subtle ones frustrate me.
I am the youngest of four. My older siblings all have Biblical names, very, very, Biblical names (normal, but Biblical). As a young kid growing up in the church I learned about the story of Adam and Eve and Daniel in the Lions Den and Mary’s cousin Elizabeth and wondered ‘Where’s my story?’ That’s when my mom told me that I was named after Jesse. Yep, the guy. The father of David actually. As a kid it was embarrassing to be named after a guy. Perhaps this is the reason I, too, am into giving your kids names for a good reason.
My mom made up for it though with my middle name, Ann, which is also her middle name. I feel like we share a special bond because of it. ; )
When I have kids I plan to draw from my family tree, my favorite books and movies and musicians, as well as cultures and historical events that I find inspiring. I really like the names Sophie, Martin, Phoebe, Isobel, Elinor, Charlie, Frederic, and George.

I was named after my great grandmother, and mom. My grandmother wasn’t able to get the same name, because she was born during WW1, and at the time, people had to pay per letter to have their baby’s name registered. They didn’t have the money for it, so she only received the first name. =] 

My son is named Alan – a combo of his two grandfathers – Aldon and Alva. AL for both of them then the A from Alva and the N from Aldon.

My middle name came from my grandfather who was named for the town and county he was born in Ellis (Town) and Edwards (County). Then he gave the middle name to my father who gave it to me and I gave it to my son who now has TWO middle names.

I was always told that I got my first name simply because my mama and daddy liked it, but my older sister told me she had a little friend that lived a couple houses down from us named Cassandra who had the mumps and chased her around in an attempt to give them to her. Lmao!! 

And my middle name (Gwin) is actually my daddy’s last name cause my parents weren’t technically married at the time. I’m a Love-child