Are you named after anyone or do you have a famous name ?

[hollydolly]

Are you named after someone in your family or as famous person...

Do you perhaps have a well known recognisable surname..from film or literature...

My first name ( which is not Holly) was chosen deliberately by my other simply because NO-one in the family had it... this in a family where everyone on both sides were named after the previous generations..
She did however appease them by giving me my middle name which is the same name as both grandmothers, andd a favourite aunt...( Margaret)

My surname ( married surname).. is a very well known Name from Literature... instantly recongnisable by everyone when I say it..

How about you.. named after anyone ?... or got a famous name ?

 

[Lawrence00]

I have three names and all three are Saints ...

 

[hollydolly]

I have three names and all three are Saints ...

let me guess...peter...Paul... and Mary....

 

[Lawrence00]

let me guess...peter...Paul... and Mary....

<---- Lawrence, Christopher, and Gerard.

And shouldn't you be sleeping?

 

[hollydolly]

<---- Lawrence, Christopher, and Gerard.

And shouldn't you be sleeping?

I would be if I hadn't fallen asleep for 2 hours mid evening.....


They're nice names ^^^^^

 

[Nathan]

I am named after my.... paternal g.g.father. My surname is a common Welsh-English family name.

 

[hollydolly]

I am named after my.... paternal g.g.father. My surname is a common Welsh-English family name.

you don't have to say but I'm going to guess the Welsh surname could be.. Griffith, Morgan, Lloyd...or Williams.... or Jones or Thomas...

 

[Rakaia]

Yes I have the same surname as a former President of the USA.

 

[Naturally]

Both
First name is after my father and middle name is after my maternal grandfather, Fonzy.
When I mention my middle name, first thing that comes to mind is the Happy Days TV show of the 70's.
Thing is, Fonzie in that show was spelled differently and was short for (Arthur Herbert) Fonzarelli.
I have no idea where my grandfather's name, Fonzy, came from, but that's my middle name and it isn't short for anything.

 

[Nathan]

you don't have to say but I'm going to guess the Welsh surname could be.. Griffith, Morgan, Lloyd...or Williams.... or Jones or Thomas...

Yep, nailed it!

 

[Capt Lightning]

I do share my name with a world class sportsman (now retired), but it is quite a common name the Scottish borders and N. England.