Are you named after anybody
By poppoppop111
@poppoppop111 (5731)
Canada
15 responses
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
10 Jan 13
It would be lovely were I named after some person but not I'm named " Shasta" after a darned beverage. No idea where the name originates from.
There is a younger cousin named after me. Never met her.
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
11 Jan 13
@ prashu228, I think it was you who asked about something about why I got my name. Sorry I couldn't answer yet because I made double posts by mistake and had reported that one to be removed before you asked me.
Anyway, my dad said that my mom was drinking a Shasta cola and thought it would make a pretty name, so I became Shasta. He said he wasn't there because he had to work and he would have named me something else.
He had considered something like Margaret or Peggy.
Margaret, I would have liked,. Peggy is too close with "Piggy". People would have probably teased me worse with a name like that.
@sriroshan (2585)
• India
10 Jan 13
In my family not my husband or son or daughter have been named after any one from my husband side family or from my father side family.
But my brother's son have been named after my Grandfather's name.
@vidhyaprakash_2 (7116)
• India
12 Jan 13
Hi friend, good to know about your naming history. My name was given by my aunt, it is having the meaning of Light of Education goddess, in our country vidhya is the god for education and prakash means light, this combination made my name
@kierrahlaura (24)
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11 Jan 13
Only my middle name was given to me after my great grandmothers name. My mother was really close with her grandmother and she was the only person in her family that she was close to so she gave me her first name as my middle name.
@barbiegirl13 (1588)
• United States
10 Jan 13
I was named after my grandma Barbara and my grandpa Gene- Barbara Jean
@IntrovertShy (2780)
• Marikina, Philippines
10 Jan 13
My name came from a small book. There is a list of baby's names and its meaning. my name means 'grace' and that is why my mom chose that name for me.
@sriroshan (2585)
• India
10 Jan 13
No my name is not named after anyone like my aunt etc. But my daddy had kept my name as Roshan means Rays of Light, since I am the eldest child in the family.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
10 Jan 13
hi,
yes,my name came from the name of my father but not exactly,my father wanted him that my name would be his name in junior but he think of that and he said that all juniors are stubborn child,so he changed it and rambled his name until he completely form my name.
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
10 Jan 13
Hi
yes i am named after my Grandmom, my dad's mother. The name is not exactly the same but it has got the same pronunciation almost. I dont like my name to be frank but i like my grandmom's name more. 
@Lonieliest1 (42)
• Jamaica
10 Jan 13
I'm Named after the Lover's Paris and Helen of Troy. Paris specifically. However people who don't know the meanings of their own names like to tell me I have a girl's name -_- When it is clearly unisex... since I a GUY has it. and further, it's what all the males that came before me are named.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
10 Jan 13
Yes, I was indeed named after someone. My mother told me when i asked her where she got my name, she just told me that She got it from one of the stars in the original Charlie's Angels - Jaclyn Smith. So there, that sure is a give away of whay my first name is haha :D
