What's the Story Behind Your Name?

My first name means Lily, so flower. My middle name was given to me because Catholics have to have a religious name in either the first or second name ( at least they did when I was a child) and so Mary, the Mother of Jesus for the 2nd name. I was born Feb 2nd, near the Goddess Bridget's Day (she has many spellings in many different languages, Brigetta, etc.) I was wondering why you went by Blind Moom Goddess, now I know. Thanks for the info.

My given name is jianfang(it's chinese pinyin),it sounds like a man's name in our country,and my parents has hoped that I can be strong and brave like a man.My mylot user name is ann101,I choose ann just because it's simple and easy to remember,the last number is my birthday.

My given name, Celina Ann, came from a mixture of my mom's name, my dad's name, and my mom's maiden name. My mom was named Cecilia. My dad's name is Willy. And my mom's maiden name is Natanauan. My myLot name is chance 2691. Chance came from my surname and the first two letters of my name. The digits make up my birthday. So there. :)

My name is Lindsey. My parents named me after my mother whose name is Linda because they thought I'd be the one child out of my family with brown eyes like my mother. My mom also liked the actress Lindsay Wagner and used to catch the bus on Lindsay Blvd. My mylot user name is a nickname that was given to me by my aunt.

The story of my name is like this, its my aunt who gave me my name. My aunt loves to read a comic book and the comic book that she is reading its a fairy named Ada, she likes the fairy because its bubbly, smart and silly. Then they add the second named may because they thought i'll be out by the month of may but actually am not.

well my real name is Daryl well my mom and dad name me "Daryl" because they say in the Philippines in year 1991 the name Daryl is kind of unique so they gave that kind of name

Sarah Ruth Beth is the name I Wish I was born with. Instead I was given a name I Hate, hate!I won't tell you it . The story behind it is my Real name was my mom's favorite girl name but it can spelled several different ways and pronounced several ways too. So Ever since I started school I have had to correct Everyone.I lost my mom in 2005 so I will never Legally change my name. So for work and on the lonf paoer trail of life I use that name. When I got here I Finally could use the name I wish I had Sarah. I wanted to add Beth to it but when I got here there was a Sarah Beth so I thought and I added ruth. in Hebrew my name Means Kind Princess from the house of.it is freeing to be able to use Sarah Ruth Beth.

My name is Visalakshi.It is the goddess at Benaras.When I was born my grand pa was at Benaras seeking the devotion of the goddess there.So I was named after that goddess.

I was named after Dew in the morning, my dad had given me my first name, he said he found it when he was lying on the grass in the garden and also found the name suitable for the baby who is me. So till now I have the name associated to every of the website I visit like here too. And the number is my favorite numbers.

Story behind my name. As much as i know there is no story behind my name. My parents like my name that's why they named me. But there is a story behind mylot name. That is i would like to earn money and it's my dream that's why my first name dream and latter i add my own name. As it's my dream.

my dad liked hyphenated names so that's how I got mine, luckily he didn't have a second daughter because his second choice was quite a mouthful, not sure my mum would have agreed to that one though :) my mylot user name is just the shortened version of my name with my initials - not very original but easy to remember. Your name is very pretty and I too didn't realise that St Cecilia was said to be blind. I love the discussions here, you can learn so much interesting stuff - thanks

Hi! I was born in the early eighties and I was named after a popular pop singer during those times. Sometimes I hate the fact that that's the story of my name. My parents could have named me Cindy instead after Cindy Lauper or Debbie after Debbie Gibson.

I'm not sure where my name came from. But my dad always said that they sort of combined my dad and my mom's nicknames to form my name. The reason that I'm uncertain about this is because every time I ask my dad about it, he kinda tells me this story in a joking way.

My family name follows my father, the other two character in Chinese is simple to write. So I can be about thirty seconds faster than my classmates on writing my name on the test paper and start answer the questions. ahahaha...

My name was going to Shell (which I don't like at all). While my Mom was in labor, she was watching television. A soap opera came on and there was a character named Holly on the soap opera. She really liked the name Holly when she heard it on the soap opera. So, when I was born and she saw that I was a girl, she named me Holly. I am glad because I like it much better than Shell.

Hi Diane/Cecilia, What a lovely name. Thanks for this trivia and information about your name. I enjoyed reading other's responses and learned a lot fron their sharing. Well, i am named MARILAINE. "Mari- from my father's name Mariano and Laine - from my Mom's name Elaine/Elena. Marilaine means little Mary. I do my best to live up to my parents name and be a role model to my siblings.

My name Given by my grandfather its meaning 'the first' because I was his first grandchild. He really proud of me, that why he made me use part of his name in my name. I remember in my childhood my grandpa really spoil me.... gees I miss him so much... He already past away when I in elementary school and I am lucky I had great memory with him.

Hi, my name is Merced which is taken from my great grandmother. Merced means mercy in Spanish. Well there's not so much about my name; for me maybe but to my grandma it means a lot.

Well my name means every one likes me weird huh and I was also named after my fathers favorite country singer.I do not know who the guy is since I do not lisen to country that much.

I don't believe my parents gave any thought to the meanings of my given names before they gave them to me. However, they translate in the Baby Name Books as "born again" and "helper of mankind". I've often wondered if it was my destiny. I use LadySam because my closest friends have called me Sam for about 35 years and I'm female.