How did you come by your name?

[Linda]

I was named Linda Anne. But I'm now legally Annie Linda.

So you legally changed your name? My daughter did that too. She dropped her middle name (Lynn) and just uses her maiden last name as a middle name. That was fine with us. I told her while she was at it she should change her first name as she's complained I gave her a "stripper's" name. She wouldn't do it though, she said she wants to keep it. I grew up with an unusual English last name, Binning, which everyone mispronounces so I'm glad I have an easy but not common last name now and I never plan to change it. I think even if I were ever to remarry I'd keep my name now because I like it so well.

 

[Kadee]

I like the name Marina. I've only known one person with that name, a lady my husband built cabinets for many years ago. It makes me think of the ocean, which I love.

I know a lady called Marina, through dancing ,she is from the Philippines. I had not ever heard the name before meeting her

 

[Ameriscot]

So you legally changed your name? My daughter did that too. She dropped her middle name (Lynn) and just uses her maiden last name as a middle name. That was fine with us. I told her while she was at it she should change her first name as she's complained I gave her a "stripper's" name. She wouldn't do it though, she said she wants to keep it. I grew up with an unusual English last name, Binning, which everyone mispronounces so I'm glad I have an easy but not common last name now and I never plan to change it. I think even if I were ever to remarry I'd keep my name now because I like it so well.

It was actually fairly easy. I went to the US embassy in London to change my passport to my married name and after a bit of discussion a supervisor allowed the name change since it was obvious there weren't any dodgy reasons. And I was only switching first for middle. Then I changed it at SS.

 

[hollydolly]

In my class at school there were 3 girls totally unrelated to each other whose Christian names were Arlene...yet regardless of where I've lived in the world, since leaving school I have never met another woman with that name..odd isn't it?

 

[tnthomas]

How did you come by your name?

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?

My first name is a biblical name, my middle name is my G. Grandfather's first name. My last name(Thomas) is just my surname(either German or Welsh), the exact origin being the issue that initiated a three year genealogy search. After 18 years still a work-in-progress, I'm going to do a genealogy thread soon. I gave my son my middle name (Nathan) as his middle name); I gave my daughter my mother's middle name(Lavinia); she hated it until she understood that it had some family history.