How did YOU get your name?? - Page 3

Dionysus · #31 09-16-2002, 03:27 PM

My mom is a fan of country music, so she named me after Tanya Tucker. Which is unique, because our name is PRONOUNCED differently that the rest of them. I'm called Tonya all the time, which is wrong.

AOX81 · #32 09-16-2002, 03:38 PM

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Originally posted by Dionysus
My mom is a fan of country music, so she named me after Tanya Tucker. Which is unique, because our name is PRONOUNCED differently that the rest of them. I'm called Tonya all the time, which is wrong.

My sisters name is Tanya but it's not pronounced TANya...her name is pronounced Tonya.

FuzzieAlum · #33 09-16-2002, 05:01 PM

If I was a boy they were going to call me Mark Anthony (!), and if I was a girl it was going to be Lisa Ann. Then they realized I had a cousin named Anna Liisa (yes, two I's), and that my name might be a bit much. So my dad picked my first name, which my mom hated at first. My middle name is "Marie" after my mom's sister's middle name, and is one of the Three Generic Girls' Middle Names (along with Ann and Lisa).

TigerGirl52 · #34 09-16-2002, 05:04 PM

My first name is Allison...I guess I was named that because my dad's grandmother's name was Alice. My middle name is Marie after my mom's mom. Nothing too original about my story. LOL.

Allison

APhiRattlerGal · #35 09-16-2002, 05:10 PM

Well my mom loved the name Iliana, and my dad loved the name Victoria. They both wanted my middle name to be Araceli (my mother's name) so they came up with:

Iliana Aracelie Victoria Nieto

amycat412 · #36 09-16-2002, 05:52 PM

My mom says she knew she was going to name her future daughter Amy ever since she heard the song "Once in Love with Amy" when she was 6 years old. My middle name is after my Grandmother on my mom's side.

Optimist Prime · #37 09-16-2002, 08:12 PM

If I was a girl I would be Sarah. I would have been a hottie too.

swissmiss04 · #38 09-17-2002, 12:11 AM

I was supposed to be a boy, according to the doctors, and in that case I would have been Andrew (something)...I can't remember right off. But then when it was confirmed I was a chick, that's when the fun started. My mom and dad agreed on Sarah Elizabeth, and then at their first Lamaze class found 8 other couples w/ the same idea. Strike one. Then my mom said "How about Holly Elizabeth?" Dad said that there was a girl named Holly in his childhood that constantly pestered him (she apparently was mentally disabled, and his mom made him be nice to her...childhood memories are weird like that), so that was strike two. Then Dad said "Rachel Elizabeth?" and mom thought it sounded too much like homage to her father (who ran out on them when she was young) so definitely strike three. Mom tossed around Chloe for a while before she thought back to her time in Italy and flying over England on the way home and seeing the fields of heather. Then she took her name and Germanicized it to Susanne, so I was named Heather Susanne (after being born a whole month late!!!)

ADPi~Ally · #39 10-11-2002, 02:18 PM

I was supost to be named Anna Marie or Ann Marie but then my mom saw "Allison" on gift wrap that had baby names on it. She like Allison better. And kept Marie as my middle name.

TigerGirl52 and I have the same 1st and middle name which is cool!!!!!

Ally

DWAlphaGam · #40 10-11-2002, 02:22 PM

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Originally posted by FAB*SpiceySpice
My parents did not have a name picked out for me when I was born, however the day I was born happened to be the first sunny day of April that year. So my mom, who is from India, named me Kiran, which literally translated from Hindi, means sunshine. So that's where my name came from....

Oh, that's pretty! My boyfriend is Indian and he wants our kids to have Hindi names, so I'll have to keep that in mind.

Heather · #41 10-11-2002, 06:57 PM

As best I know, for my first name (Heather), it was one of the only names my parents could agree on. My mom wanted something really symbolic and meaningful and more than likely strange. Dad, thankgoodness, did not let that happen.

My middle name (Michelle) is from a little girl my parents used to babysit for right before I was born when they were living in Hawaii. I've actually never had any complaints about my name.

Heather Michelle

MsVixen · #42 10-11-2002, 11:56 PM

my mom wanted to name me bethany, but my dad hated the name so i am jessica... and my middle name is susan, after my moms lil sis in tri delta from college... her name was sue..

ROWDYsister · #43 10-12-2002, 01:06 AM

Princess Di and Prince Charles had gotten married a year or two before I was born.

Dyan, though. The weird spelling I can't explain.

KappaTarzan · #44 10-12-2002, 12:59 PM

FuzzieAlum! my mom's name is Lisa Ann

okay don't laugh at my name story- most people do.

my mom wanted to name me Tasha, but then new neighbors moved in who had a dog named tasha. scratch that...so my mom decides to name me something having to dow ith her FAVORITE singer.... barry manilow. her favorite song was "Mandy" so here i am, Mandy Lee... you'd think they'd name me Amanda so i had a full name, but nope. just mandy.. haha... never met another one like me!! (just glad her favorite song wasn't copacabana, i could be Lola right now

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Blaire · #45 10-18-2002, 07:26 PM

When mom and dad got married, they were told they were never going to have children.

However, 2 months after their honeymoon, they found out they were pregnant with me!

At first, they wanted to name me Margaret Elizabeth, after my grandmothers. But then my mom decided they should name me after my dad... my middle name is Blaire and my dad's name is Blaine. Then they put Ashley in front of it so it would "flow" better. So, there you have it...Ashley Blaire. Then my brother came along and they thought, "hey...why don't we name him Blaine III?". So they did! Both me and my brother were named after my dad.

oh and my mom's name is Bonnie...yep, you guessed it....Blaine, Bonnie, Blaire and Blaine. Thats my family!!!