How did your parents choose your name?

My first name was the first name of one of my Dad's favorite writer's. My middle name is my Dad's first name. My wife named one of her son's after an actor, Chad Evertt. Chad had a girlfriend who named her first child after the name of a character in the movie, "Legends of the Fall'. She named her boy, Tristian, after the Brad Pitt character. I would love to remember one of my favorite actors, Vincent Price, if I had a boy. But Vincent is kind of common and giving a kid the first name Price would just be to cruel.

I was named after two English queens...la tea da

My first name is after an English Actress. My middle name is a spelling my dad said he made up for a flower with a French name. My first name is also a flowering little shrub, so you may want to call me a blooming idiot.The last name of the actress could have been a middle name, but glad it was not mine. Mom said that people named that name usually act just the opposite. I just do not like seeing all these children that are named after media people, and it just soaked in that I was as well.

All I know is that I was named for St Barbara, patroness of the artillery...

Hm, and did your parents' marriage survive this incidence of male weirdness? :-) My parents decided we would all get modern first names and traditional middle names and then, far as I know, they chose them from a list or a book or something.

hi wizzywig, our names are linked with gods names and very typical names,first my name was kept as Radhakrishna, a combination gods name,but my mother have interested to put a name to me as Sridhar Prasad,so she changed my name to Sridhar Prasad,now my name was sridhar prasad and this name is popular and in all records,have a nice day

I was named after the first Carl Halling, who was from Denmark. He was either my dad's father or stepfather; without DNA testing it's impossible to say which; but my family took his name, and I was directly named after him.

I was named after my father, but he insisted that he didn't want a son with the moniker of "junior", so...my middle name was changed, and it was my mother who picked that name for me. cdrxo

Hello there! I am not really sure how my parents chose my name, but my mother was really religious so I believe came from Mama Mary. While my second name came from her own name. My second name is Rose, while my mom's name is Rosario. At least its connected. My brother have a more interesting name. I think my name is too common. Have fun.

My brother got my mum's favourite boy's name, I got my dad's favourite girls name. My younger sister got my grandmothers' name and my younger brother was, I guess, a personal choice, but his middle name was for our grandfather. By the time my baby sister came along, all the favorites and nods to ancestry had been used and so, my dad ran a contest with my sister's grade 3 class. We chose two names out of the hat each and then voted on the names we all liked best!! THe kids got prizes for participating and the one whose name got chosen, got a special prize.

I guess my mama was either drunk or completely stupid when she gave me my name! I just had to change it due to Social Security and man were those people laughing at me --but as it turned out lots of people have to change their spellings or the complete, whole name. It;s ok. I get a lot of compliments on my name anyways !

Hiya Wizzy, My name is Sue how do you do? Well I really don´t like the name Susan not for me anyway and I have no idea how they chose it I suppose it must have been the most popular one at the time. On top of that they gave me a middle name which I dislike too but officially I am stuck with it. I was never told how I got named Susan and I suppose I will never find out either. However I did find myself a beautiful Godmother and that was my bonus having a second Mom who as a person was second to none and also a Sister not officially my Sister but as if we were.

My name was choose by my grand father.. and my name is anurag.. and it's meaning is love.. so i think my name is good.. and i like my name.. have a nice day and keep mylotting always...

My parents told me, they named me after a woman saint and a great warrior, so I would have both power and beauty.

My daughter was born in France so I wanted here to have a French name and I though we had decided on Janine Nichole but my Husband went to the Embassy and named her Debbie (because he like Debbie Reynolds) and Clara (ugh) (after his mother. I was broken hearted but at least manage to get it changed to Deborah Karla.

I am named after my dad...

I was my parent's second daughter. They, too, wanted a son and were not prepared with a female name. Grandma wanted them to call me Henrietta, which would be a combination of my parents names. I have been extremely grateful to my father, who named me after one of his school teachers instead. The most interesting name story that I know concerning that of my mother's youngest sister. She was my grandparent's 10th child and 8th daughter. When my grandmother was advised that the child was a girl, she remarked, "Oh my. I'm all out of girl names." The doctor, then, offered to name the child, and Grandma agreed. He named her Zona Alma. I've always thought the name appropriate, as she was their last child.

My mother was a huge Dean Martin fan. As I turned out to be female, the name Dean would not work. She didn't like the name Deana (deen-a), so she decided I would be Deanna (De-Anna)instead. My middle name came from her sister's middle name.

Hello Wizzywig, well I really don't know where they got my name; I never asked because as far as I can remember I'm not interested . Kinda antique name compared to my brothers and sisters. My grandfather (my mother's side)shared my misery of not liking my name. If only I could something about it; what's done is done. Going back to the topic, when I asked my grandma about it her mothers name is kinda same as her mom but longer; Mercedes, mine is Merced.

Name was symbol of someone...in my family gave name to new comer must be discussion to choose a good name between grandpa, grandma, father, mother, and others family.