How did YOU get your name??

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

I was just wondering how everyone got their name? From a relative or someone close to the family? Or how about just an odd reason??



I received mine from my sisters. Since I was going to be the last child my mom said that they could name me whatever they wanted. True, that would have been a bad idea if they would have been young, but, thankfully they were teenagers So, I got my first name (Kayla) from the 'good' girl on Days of Our Lives and my middle name (Ranee) from her enemy on the series. And to add to the oddness my first dog was named 'Patch', her fiance on the show! LOL

[DeltaSigStan]

When my mom was pregnant with me she watched General Hospital every day. She had a big crush on this guy named Scorpio, and his real name was Tristan. So she named me Tristan. I go by Stan because, well, Tristan is kinda feminine.

[TriSigmaTX]

My parents named me after my mom's Great Uncle Tracy, but to make it more feminine, they spelled it Tracie. My brother just picked my middle name Michelle, pretty good for a 9 year old at the time.

[stillwater15]

Originally posted by DeltaSigStan
When my mom was pregnant with me she watched General Hospital every day. She had a big crush on this guy named Scorpio, and his real name was Tristan. So she named me Tristan. I go by Stan because, well, Tristan is kinda feminine.

just my opinion, but i think tristan is very sexy. my friend's son has the same name.

my godmother/aunt named me after erica kane from all my children. i thank her every chance i get, because my mother was going to name me judith(yuck).

[PM_Mama00]

It is tradition in Italian families that the first daughter and son be named after the father's parents, and the second daughter and son be named after the mother's parents. I, along with 3 of my cousins, am named Phyllis for my father's mother. My brother, Russell, is one of 4 in our family. My middle name, Rosa, is for my mother's sister and my father's sister... that's what you get for being Italian!

[alphaiota]

i got my first name from my great aunt and my middle name was my grandmother's maiden name.

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[Fewdfreak]

My mom liked the name Lauren, because she thought that it was pretty, my sister, though has a more interesting story about her name though. Her name is Asha, (Osh(like OshKosh)-uh) my mom is a nurse and she took care of or worked with an India woman Asha, and she liked the name, so she named her that... we've only met like two people with her name, and no one can ever pronounce it!

L.

[APhi]

My mom read "Little Women" when she was 12 and decided she wanted to name her eventual, hypothetical daughter Beth. 16 years later... I was born. It's technically Elizabeth at the preferrence of my Dad and Grandmothers.

[bcdphie]

I was named after one of my dad's cousins (Siobhan).

[SoCalGirl]

My name was a last minute decision. I was named after one of my mom's cousins. I was supposed to be named Maria Teresa Elizabette *****. But my parents decided a lil white baby w/ no hair would never be able to pull off the name. So they named me Carolyn Elizabeth ***** instead.

Originally posted by Fewdfreak
My mom liked the name Lauren, because she thought that it was pretty, my sister, though has a more interesting story about her name though. Her name is Asha, (Osh(like OshKosh)-uh) my mom is a nurse and she took care of or worked with an India woman Asha, and she liked the name, so she named her that... we've only met like two people with her name, and no one can ever pronounce it!

L.

"Brimful of Asha on the 49!"

What does your sister think of that song?

[KillarneyRose]

Tracy is my mother's maiden name, so here I am!

[josh8o]

i have a older sister named heather. and my parents thought the josh went well with heather (josh and heather this, josh and heather that...). so they named me josh.

[KappaStargirl]

My father had a very cool aunt, his aunt Flossie, who died not long after he and my mom got married. They decided that should they have a girl, they would name the baby after her. According to my uncle (dad's brother), Flossie was kind, funny, very fashionable, and could hold her liquor like no one he knew . Flossie, however, was a nickname, short for Florence, which was her middle name. Her first name was Carlisle, and she couldn't stand it, so she went by her middle name all her life.

My grandmother (my mother's mother) was raised by her aunt Elizabeth and uncle David, and my mom really liked them a lot when she was little, they always used to read to her.

So when I was born, they named me Carlisle Elizabeth. They never called me Elizabeth, though, they nicknamed me Carlie. I hated my name growing up, and thought many times about going by Elizabeth, but I never got around to making it official. As an adult, I'm okay with it, and most people tell me it's very pretty...once they learn to pronounce it.

Had I been a boy, I'd have been named David Franklin.

[archangel12]

My mother named me for the heroine in the romance novel she was reading at the time. I think the name was The Wolf and the Dove. Half way through the book the heroine changes her name to whispering dove. I was lucky mom wasn't that far along, thankfully Heather Briana was as bad as it got. My little bro was named Evan Mitchell for Dr. Evan Mitchell on Days of Our Lives.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

My mother named me after her mother, my grandma and her grandmother, my great grandmother.
My younger sister was named after my mother's cousin. My mother picked my youngest sister's name because she liked it.