Are you named for someone else?
By blummus
@blummus (451)
United States
February 4, 2010 9:06pm CST
In some cultures it's traditional to name a child for a relative, a family friend, or a person the parents admire. In others, it's forbidden to tie two people together by their names. How about you? Were you named for someone else? Would you name one of your children for someone else you know or admire?
2 people like this
5 responses
@abitcurious (1422)
• Philippines
5 Feb 10
Yes. A very ugly teacher whom my mother had a crush on. And he was a guy so I have a guy name. I looked it up in her yearbook once and he really was not that attractive. My mother said he was the smartest guy he knew at that time. Pretty embarrassing at first but I got over it.
1 person likes this
@myliezl0903 (2726)
• Philippines
5 Feb 10
yeah, actually i was named to an artist here in the philippines ., my mom used to see a telenovela and she got struck by one of the artist there named liezl ., :P it was kinda funny cause the screen name of that girl is annalisa which was my real name . ,
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
5 Feb 10
hi blummus well my mom said I was named for a friend they had but I found out on my family tree that my great Aunt Patsy Ladd had the same name as they gave me, only they spelled mine Pa]tsie and hers was with the y. My mom said they did not know about my great grandmother Elizabeth Ladd Clark's sister Patsy Ladd at all. so this was a happy happenstance I guess.
@alilin28 (1527)
• Uruguay
1 Mar 10
no, my name was new on the family, and i dont like to put the name of one of the memberof my family to my child (i dont have child, im single, thanks god).. i would like to chose one new name to be original, of course, iand i wouldnt like to put a name that in the future the child feel horrible with the name.. hehehe..
thanks for asking, have a ncie day
