How did you come by your name?

hollydolly

hollydolly

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This discussion came up on another thread and I was asked to start a thread on it...so here we are..;)


Not talking about your forum name..we're talking about your Christian name, the one you've been known by all your life.

Do you know why you were given your name, were you named after someone...do you like your name, would you have preferred to have been called something else, did you pass your Christian name on to your children..... is their a story to be told about the way you got your name..?

Anyone?
 

I passed my name, Kay on to daughter Who is named Leonie Kay, and she named her first daughter Amanda Kay
as mentioned in another thread my name came about being the first born, fathers name was Ray.
My middle name has been passed down the generations for as long back as the early 1800 s
i have a brother born a year after me and his name is Ray
 

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James ( aka Jamie)...and the shortened version Jim or jimmy , is an extremely common name in Scotland too ...I think just about everyone has an uncle, brother, father cousin or friend called Jimmy.. :D
 
LOL Falcon we used to have neighbours who were universally disliked by everyone, and their children ( now adults) were called Janet and john...and people used to say they were only called that because that's the only book their parents had ever read.. :D
 
I'm named for my mother's high school French class pen pal. As it happened, it made a good combination with my French surname. She lost touch with her pen pal just after the Germans invaded France in 1940, the year I was born.

Until I was grown, I hated my name because Americans either couldn't or wouldn't pronounce or spell it correctly. As a child, I was too timid to correct anyone; as an adult, it didn't bother me a bit. There are many who persisted in mispronouncing it so I persisted in correcting them!
 
See what I get for not reading the whole thread all the way through. My real name, I haven't any idea, never asked my mom, I know sort of how I got my middle name, my mom was aiming for a boy to name after my dad, her second hubby, so there are three girls with the same middle initial till the youngest boy came along and frankly, I don't recall him having a middle name, but he has my dad's first name with the us three girls have the same first three letters of.

I know that was a mouth full. Actually we three girls all have the same three initials for first second and last name well till we each married. :eek:nthego:
 
Falcon said:
They named me after the bathroom.....John

My sister's name is Jane.

My parents had no imagination.
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Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!

All you need is the surname, Smith and a dog named Spot. I like Falcon much better. It implies freedom and power.
 
I was named Linda because my dad liked the name, middle name Anne after my aunt. Never liked my name because it was a common name and my last name was a very common name. So I thought my entire name was boring.

In the early 90s I decided to use my middle name and liked Annie. Felt right. After I came to the UK in 2000 I legally changed it to Annie Linda. Even my family calls me Annie.
 
I am Morddwyd, pronounced more- thoo.widd, after a character in a 13th century Welsh epic, the Mabinogion, a loose collection which was not even collected and punished in full until the 19th century!

Pretty romantic eh?
 
Laurie said:
I am Morddwyd, pronounced more- thoo.widd, after a character in a 13th century Welsh epic, the Mabinogion, a loose collection which was not even collected and punished in full until the 19th century!

Pretty romantic eh?
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How cool! I have a copy of the Mabinogion but haven't read all of it.
 
Laurie said:
I am Morddwyd, pronounced more- thoo.widd, after a character in a 13th century Welsh epic, the Mabinogion, a loose collection which was not even collected and punished in full until the 19th century!

Pretty romantic eh?
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Wow that is a super unusual name... :D


Annie, it's funny you'll probably think I'm mad but in your photos aged 40..you look like a Linda but in your recent photos you look like an Annie...I hope I'm not inferring that Annie is an older persons' name..but sometimes you can look at a person and know what name suits them.. :D
 
hollydolly said:
Wow that is a super unusual name... :D


Annie, it's funny you'll probably think I'm mad but in your photos aged 40..you look like a Linda but in your recent photos you look like an Annie...I hope I'm not inferring that Annie is an older persons' name..but sometimes you can look at a person and know what name suits them.. :D
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Interesting! Someone (Scottish) asked me at work years ago if I was given the name Annie at birth. She knew I wasn't as Americans don't generally do that - but Scots will. My husband's grandmother was named Annie.
 
I hate my name...always have ..when I was a child if a stranger asked my name I would say the first thing that came into my head rather than say my own name..in retrospect some of those names were horrible but I preferred anything other than my own. It's not a particularly ugly name in the great scheme of things..it's just horrible to me...I wanted to change it years ago but no-one would take me seriously when I asked them to call me something else so I'm stuck with it...except on chat forums where I get to call myself Holly..LOL
 
hollydolly said:
I hate my name...always have ..when I was a child if a stranger asked my name I would say the first thing that came into my head rather than say my own name..in retrospect some of those names were horrible but I preferred anything other than my own. It's not a particularly ugly name in the great scheme of things..it's just horrible to me...I wanted to change it years ago but no-one would take me seriously when I asked them to call me something else so I'm stuck with it...except on chat forums where I get to call myself Holly..LOL
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confused.gif Ok is it Holly or Dolly ?? My sister was Delores and called Dolly for short.
 
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