What is your name, and is there a story behind how you got your name from your parents? If so please tell.
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My parents named me Paul as it was a biblical name and baptised me. However my father forced the Christian faith on me against my wishes and so later I rejected the faith, and felt to jettison that Christian conditioning baggage I needed to change my name. I changed my name to Free Spirit by deed poll 3 years ago.
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My names harry,I was named after my father and he was named after his father,so I'm the third harry in the family,hooray!!,My maternal great grand uncle or something like that was also named harry.My elder brother wanted to name me Jason,He told my father that the only reason why he wanted to name me harry is so that when he dies(my father)there will still be a harry left,LOL!.he was about 5 years old then!!
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My name is Susan. My mother wanted to name me Kathleen after herself but my father told her that baby girls don't get named after mothers only the boys get named after the fathers.(old school way of thinking but it was the 60's). So she named me Susan instead.
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my name is Nanna (I know it sounds stupid, but I'm from scandinavia). "Nanna" means brave in old norse and is also the name of Baldr's wife in norse mythology, my dad is pretty much into that kind of stuff, so he knew about it, when I was to be named. my mother just thought it sounded pretty.
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My name is Theresa and I was named after St. Theresa of Lisieux.."The Little Flower"
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Cindy. I was named that because my mom loved candy when she was little. She said that if she ever had a girl, she would name her Cindy, because if sounded so much like it.
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My names Sara Elizabeth. I'm named after my Great Grandmother on my Grandfather's side. I was suppost to be a boy and my name was going to be Noah Lee. But I gave them a surprise and they had to come up with a name quick. And this was the only one people could agree on. They say I'm just like her, but I wouldn't know. I think I only met her once before she died and I was four.
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My Name is Erica Felicia And I was named after two characters off a soap opera ( general hospital I think).I guess my mom had too much time on her hands :)
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My name is Kathleen, apparently my dad loved the song 'I,ll take you home again Kathleen' by Joseph Lock. I,m just really glad he didn,t like Tom Jones singing 'Delilah'
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My real name is Rachel. My mom named me after her favorite soap opera actress!
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Named after my Mother's brother who died in the military.
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My father named me. It was from a song and is also a variation of family names. But more so, because of the song. ha ha ha.
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My mom thought she was being a rebel, naming me a nickname instead of a christain name.
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well my name is ben and my parents let my 2 older brothers choose my name so i was obviously called ben
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my name is john (sorry wont put full name ) the 3Rd my dad is john jr and his dad of course was the first, so its a name we keepin in the family when the day that comes that i have a son i shall name him the 4th
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Being that I was their last child out of six, they called me David because it means "beloved". I got a lot of love from my parents and older siblings.
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My parents named me Cathleen Therese (although I don't go by it) after my moms sisters Catherine and Theresa. The name I do use is Kate or Katie, When I was in the nursery right after my birth Katie is what one of the nurses used to call me and my parents liked it and it stuck. It just gets shortened even further to Kate. It has relly been a nightmare! lol
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It was my grandpa's name and the first pope's name too:-)
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It's my dad's name and I'm glad it's Craig. The other option was Ronald, my grandpa's name.
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my dad named me, up to that point i was gonna be "imogen-sian" but he changed it to Ceri. equally difficult to spell correctly i think
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I was supposed to be Jenny Dawn but my mum pointed out that it rhymes with Benidorm. Lucky escape there.
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On my Dad's side, the first born male always takes the same name. So my Dad, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, et cetera, all share the same name. It's one part custom, one part lack of creativity.
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My first name is after my grandmother, two great-grandmothers and one great-great-grandmother, all on my dad's side. My middle name is after a relatively prominent ancestor on my mom's side... so as to avoid being named after only one of my grandmothers.
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'Sophie' because it was one of two names my parents picked and my dad disliked the other, I think it was 'Genevieve' 'Rose' after my Grandma =) And my daughter (when the time comes) will have the middle name 'Rose' as well, in memory of my Grandmother, a brilliant lady.
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My parents said they named me April because it was a special time in their relationship blah blah. I think it's just because I was born then and they're not creative.
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Back when I was born, the "fad" was to name children after movie stars. So I was told.
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I have the same name as my grandfather and an uncle who died when he was 22 years old.
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I was named after my great aunt, Mum's favourite aunt, who was emigrating to live in the USA with her GI husband. I always hated the name and changed it by deed poll in 2003 to something I like, but the family still call me by my old name and it really annoys me.
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They both loved Elizabeth Taylor and they thought 'Giant' was one of the greatest films ever made. Now, why they decided on Taylor as opposed to Rock, Hudson, James, or Dean is beyond me. Hey, at least they didn't name me 'Elizabeth'! ;)
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I got my first name because my mother's mom picked it. My mom didn't really care what I was called, she just wanted to make her mother happy.
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My grandmother's name was Jimmie, my grandfather called her Margaret, so my mom named me Margaret. My father's mother's name was Ella, my mom refused to use that, she compromised and my middle name is Ellen. Grandmother Ella of course was not amused.
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I was named after the main character in Casablanca, which is my parents' favorite movie. My middle name is that of my maternal grandfather.
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My grandad was stationed in England during WW2 and flew B-17's and later B-24's over France and Germany. We are very Anglo-Saxon, and although we are mostly German, we all have this auburn streak in our brown hair(especially facial hair). This made the Brits he met insist he was Scottish, and they nicknamed him "Scotty". It stuck, and they named me Scott Malcolm after him. He was Malcolm James.
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Actually I don't think there's any.. At least that's what I've been told. As far as I know, they just looked at me when I was born and immediately agreed that it was a Rasmus
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My mother named her kids what was popular/mainstream at the time because it was import to her that we weren't picked on based on what our names were. That's it. Not alot to it.
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mines pretty funny, My Mom wanted a daughter and when I came a boy she wanted to name me Jamie, my Dad has a sence of humor he wanted to name me Levi St. so my full name would read Levi st.Ross get it, luckilly I got james, the family calls me Jimmy D
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It's said to be Irish for brave.Cant tell you anymore than that or i might blow my cover.
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I'm named after my dad, whose name is Phillip. Hence, the strange spelling of my name. DOH!! +5
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was given my grand father and fathers name was the way they did it in them days so the name stays in the family
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