How did your parents come up with the name they gave you?

I don't know.

I'm not telling.

i dunno

I was named after a character in a cheesy Russian romance novel.

My mom named me Kris after Krishna...who is a Hindu god.

I share a first name with a Gay Irish Priest.

I have no idea. Lemme ask them.

*goes all the way downstairs to find out that her parents are not there. than she's goes all the way back upstairs to her father's study. he answers her the question, with traditional preaching how she shouldn't be disturbing him when he's working*

*sigh* See what I have to go through because of SC.

My father told me this, but my mom is not supposed to find out about it. Before he met my mother, my father was involved with that women, and her name was Ambrosia. She died of a really rare symdrome you have when you are born. So, he named me after her.

Good survey

Hare Krishna to you.

and U2

They both read this really sappy poem by Theodore Roethke with a confetti in it, and they both just loved the name. Also, my mother is crazy about "The Catcher in The Rye".

How's it going, Barnabas?

Leopold... my brother picked it for me. Well basically, my parents thought they are having a boy, so they let my brother, Friedrich pick. He picked Leopold. So I have guys' name.

they used my father's middle name

I was named in part for my great grandmother on my father's side.

Big mouth! (just kidding) Let them figure it out on their own, okay?

They were drunk

It was my mom and you not even close.

My full name is: Zang Bang Bing Bang Karang Karang Bowl-A-Rama Ding Dong. It is an old custom amongst our people that when a baby is born, the parents yank the silverware drawer out onto the floor. Whatever sound it makes, that is what they name the baby.

It was our next door neighbours and my aunty's name.

??don't know?? i think they just thought "jettles" was cute!!!!!

lol funny my family has that custom went like this: jettles bettles bo mettles banana fana fo dettles fe fi fo bettles, jettles!

They thought, hmm what shall we call our child, chose a male name and a female one then waited to see what popped out!

They just liked the name. I'm not sure there was a specific reason why.

My dad on my mom's side died the day I was born. Hence my name came from him.

Justina was my father's grandmother's name.

Everyone assumes that my parents had really wanted a boy named Justin.

I don't know. It means 'dog'. I know they changed the spelling from Caleb to Kaleb because some people called me Saleb!!!???

??

I have no idea. Wish they hadn't come up with it though.

My name is Kirsty Joy, (joy is my middle name) and Kirsty means christian, and my mum is one, so i was a christian joy....

Named after a dead great-grandmother.

It's a great name! It sounds a bit too much like Babar, though, for some reason. Was that your nickname in grade school?

Chloe. It means "bloom" in Greek. My dad brought my mother a bouquet of rosebuds, while she was in the hospital having contractions. When I was born, they suddenly bloomed.

I was named after a Bob Dylan song. "Corrina Corrina"

Honey: My mum started having contractions while she was baking a honey cake (I was a preemie). Also, I was the first blonde in my family for a long time.

My dad says that they were actually set on a certain name for me but the night before I was born he had a dream that he was holding a baby calling it by another name. So they named me after the one he had in his dream.

Are they still playing Dark Shadows on the Sci-Fi Channel?

I wish it was, that would have been more bearable. I don't even want. to go into nicknames.

I don't know. If they are, my mom is probably still watching it.

*shrugs*

A little girl they knew had the name Deanna, and they just liked it.
My sister, on the other hand, was named after the actress on the Swamp Thing. That's a much more interesting story.

I was named after my dad

okay
me neither

Thanks, I appreciate that.

[Micah] It's from a western movie. Last time I told somebody this, I was in their backyard drinking homemade green tea out of a cows horn from Paraguay. ::memories::

Well, they decided on names before I was born. If I was a boy, they would call me Erin Morgan(Erin is a good Scottish name and Morgan is my Mum's maiden name) and if I was a girl they would call me Colleen Richelle(Colleen is a good Scottish name and Mum liked the name Richelle).
What's with the Scottish names??!
Then I was born and they looked at me and said,"She doesn't look like a Colleen. She looks like a Kirsty Marie"

My sisters middle name is Joy And my name is Kirsty

I do know they named me Jenny(Jennifer) after the girl in a popular movie the year of my birth called: "Love Story"

LOL

NAME AFTER A MOVIE

They wanted to give their first child a Bible name, Jacob if a boy and Rebecca if a girl. I came out all male, so Jacob it was. With my three younger sisters they abandoned the Bible idea and named them what they wanted to.

I was told that I was named after one of my Dad's old girlfriends. It's kind of twisted.

First my brother was born. His received the name (Piotr)Peter because my fathers second name was (Pawel)Paul. Then 7 years later I was born , my parents to the last moment expected a girl !surprise! a boy was born. I received the name (Pawel)Paul. (My father never uses his second name, almost nobody knows about it)

Is your family of Polish descent?

Sounds more like Russian to me, but I'm not that good at guessing name origins.

I was named after a previous Miss America winner...

Yes, they are still showing Dark Shadows on the Sci-Fi Channel! I watch it every day! Unfortunately, they are currently showing the last year of the show, so it might end soon... I am hoping that they will run the whole series again!

My mom was going to name me either wendy or brandy (both because of the songs) She said she chose brandy because i have blue eyes and in the song it says... well, your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea...

I think Mum just liked the name.

Pawel means Paul in Polish.

Ah, I see. Well, like I said, guessing name origins is not a strong point for me.

Don't know of anyone with my name. All know is that it's the main city on Catalina Island.Avalon.

They named me after Katherine Hepburn and Tracy Spencer, an acting pair they love.

Spencer Tracy, not Tracy Spencer.

I thought it was Spency Tracer.

My first and middle names are the first names of the sons of the minister who married my parents.

From a cartoon character. That's terrible.

My names is the girl version of my Grandfathers

My mom liked my middle name (Katharyn) because she loved Katharine Hepburn

family name

My name is Christine Marie. I was supposed to be born in January and named Laura, but I was born right before Christmas, and the nuns talked my mom into this name. I used to hate it, but there's a whole lot of nicknames to be gotten from Christine - Chris, Chrissy, Christy, Tina, whatever, so I can change my name whenever I feel like it.

The Jewish tradition is to give a child the Hebrew name of a relative who has died; sort of a way of living on. My Hebrew name is Todrus, after my grandfather, who died in 1955 (I was born in 1958). And the corresponding English name my parents chose was Theodore.

The founder of our church did the honor of letting them know what I should be called. I'm serious.

My brother named me. He kept asking my mother when she was going to the hospital to get 'baby Nancy'.(There, I told you my name!) He knew I was a girl before anyone else did! There was no girls in the family up to that point.

I got my first name in the memory of a friend of my mom.

Coool...Where abouts in NZ did you live?

All I know is that my mom wanted to call me Jamie at first but something made her name me Jenn instead... I think I'm grateful, even though I hate Jenn. Jamie's worse.

Whakatane. You?

Was named after my Aunt who helped my mother out during her pregnancy

Auckland

My Father named me after his Grandmother

my mom named me after a soap opera star

My mom had a dream and her deceiced mother told her to name me Amber, so she did.

I have absolutely no idea! I don't think it was anything very exciting.

What part of Auckland? I lived there for just over 8 years Mairangi Bay, Takanini, Forrest Hill, Glenfield and Northcote.

don't know

don't know :(

My dad thought of it. He picked French-sounding names because our last name is French, even though we're not, and my dad likes to lie and tell people we are French.

Well my parents were so sure that i was going to be a boy that they didn't have a girls name for me, I'm a huge disappointment, so for 3 weeks i didn't have a name.

I was the opposite. My Mom was positive I was not only going to be a girl, but I would grow up to be some great spiritual leader. You ask me I think she just read Dune too many times.

You may share your name with a Gay Irish Priest, but I share my name with..ahh...ahh..with the movie "The Life of Brian" by Monty Python. So, there.

I really dont know my name is weird and people automatically think im all godly when they hear it they also have bad nick names lol p.s= my name is hope

My mom was supposed to be named Linda. But I got the name instead!

mom's best friend's name

I thought your name was anonymous #5. I was going to compliment you on all that great bathroom wall philosophy of yours I've been reading over the years.

Yes. I am from Poland.

Cool! I am half-Polish myself.

They just plain liked the name and decided whether I was a boy or a girl -- that was gonna be it. Lucky me. A girl named Kyle.

my two brothers, my sister and I are all named after people in the Bible. My middle name is my grandmother's first name which makes me incredibly happy because she died four years ago yet she lives on through me.

the things that parents expect from us